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Reflective practice for sustainable development

Wall, Tony
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Meakin, Denise
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University of Chester
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2019-09-30
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The efficacy of developing institutional approaches for, and curriculum content about, sustainable development, has been criticised as insufficient to change behaviour in practice (Wall et al, 2017). This partly reflects the deeply engrained nature of educational practices and systems and their effects on learners, and how these are an intimate part of how (un)sustainable futures are perpetuated. As Orr (1994, p. 5) articulates it, “[t]he truth is that without significant precautions, education can equip people merely to be more effective vandals of the Earth”. Against this backdrop, scholars have called for approaches which employ a deeper link between individuals’ knowledge and their critical attributes, that is, a greater need to facilitate the capacities of learners to engage in critical reflection to help transform how they view their responsibilities regarding a sustainable future (Viegas et al, 2016)...
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Wall, T., & Meakin, D. (2019). Reflective practice for sustainable development. In W. Leal Filho, (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education, Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
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