Critical thinking as room for subjectification in Education for Sustainable Development     

Helen Hasslöf  Claes Malmberg 《Environmental Education Research》2015,21(2):239-255

Issues of sustainability are complex and often steeped with ethical and political questions without predefined or general answers. This paper deals with how secondary and upper secondary teachers discuss these complex issues, by analysing their aims for Education for Sustainable Development. With inspiration from discourse theory, their articulations about students as political subjects are analysed. Critical thinking emerged as a nodal point in teachers’ discussions. In this study, critical thinking is articulated as having various qualitative meanings related to different epistemological views. On one hand, critical thinking is articulated to invite room for subjectification; but on the other hand, room for subjectification is challenged when critical thinking is articulated through the educational aims of qualification and socialisation. A consequence of changing epistemological view might be that political and ethical issues take a back seat.  相似文献   

Interactions between Niche and Regime: An Analysis of Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture across Europe     

Julie Ingram  Damian Maye  James Kirwan  Nigel Curry  Katarina Kubinakova 《The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension》2015,21(1):55-71

Abstract

Purpose: This paper aims to reveal, and contribute to an understanding of, the processes that connect learning and innovation networks in sustainable agriculture to elements of the mainstream agricultural regime. Drawing on the innovations and transition literature, the paper frames the analysis around niche-regime interaction using the notion of niche-regime compatibility.

Design/Methodology/Approach: 17 Learning and Innovation Networks for Sustainable Agriculture (LINSA) engaged in agricultural food production, non-food and rural development were analyzed. In line with the project's transdisciplinary approach data were collected in a series of participatory workshops.

Findings: Five modes of LINSA-regime interaction are distinguished based on compatibility. The level of LINSA-regime compatibility influences the extent of the diffusion of LINSA ideas and practices into the regime. However, interaction processes within these modes reveal multiple and diverse connections between LINSA and regime entities suggesting a more complex relationship exists.

Practical implications: A range of connecting processes and activities (for example, certification, exemption from regulation, facilitation of networking) can bring about effective LINSA-regime interaction and could be externally supported.

Originality/Value: Empirical evidence from 17 case studies provides valuable insights from a number of different contexts across Europe. By directing analysis of interaction at the level of LINSA (niche project), rather than at the macro level, the study offers an original perspective. It suggests that the transition to sustainable agriculture might be understood as a complex of interactive processes leading to a series of adaptive changes, rather than as regime change.  相似文献   

公共图书馆微博可持续发展策略思考——基于重庆图书馆微博运营现状的分析     

詹洁  易红 《新世纪图书馆》2014,(2):35-38

论文运用对比分析法,通过对重庆图书馆微博运营现状的梳理、分析和审视,得出大多数公共图书馆微博发展进入瓶颈时期的结论,并从运营维护人员的角度和操作层面提出了关于公共图书馆微博运营管理可持续发展策略的建议和思考.  相似文献   

鄱阳湖生态经济区生态体系可持续发展评价研究     

刘巧  李丽清 《科技广场》2014,(9)

本文以鄱阳湖生态经济区中的6个城市作为研究对象,选取综合指标层、评价指标层、考核指标层三个层次构件鄱阳湖生态经济区可持续发展指标体系,并查阅相关的统计资料获取相应的指标值,用统计软件SPSS进行数据处理与分析,借助粗糙集中的知识分类思想和指标约简原理提取关键指标,并对其进行重要度的计算来确定权重,从而对鄱阳湖生态经济区可持续发展进行实证评价。  相似文献   

Business models for sustainable technologies: Exploring business model evolution in the case of electric vehicles     

René Bohnsack  Jonatan Pinkse  Ans Kolk 《Research Policy》2014

Sustainable technologies challenge prevailing business practices, especially in industries that depend heavily on the use of fossil fuels. Firms are therefore in need of business models that transform the specific characteristics of sustainable technologies into new ways to create economic value and overcome the barriers that stand in the way of their market penetration. A key issue is the respective impact of incumbent and entrepreneurial firms’ path-dependent behaviour on the development of such new business models. Embedded in the literature on business models, this paper explores how incumbent and entrepreneurial firms’ path dependencies have affected the evolution of business models for electric vehicles. Based on a qualitative analysis of electric vehicle projects of key industry players over a five-year period (2006–2010), the paper identifies four business model archetypes and traces their evolution over time. Findings suggest that incumbent and entrepreneurial firms approach business model innovation in distinctive ways. Business model evolution shows a series of incremental changes that introduce service-based components, which were initially developed by entrepreneurial firms, to the product. Over time there seems to be some convergence in the business models of incumbents and entrepreneurs in the direction of delivering economy multi-purpose vehicles.  相似文献   

In search of systemic innovation for sustainable development: A design praxis emerging from a decade of social learning inquiry     

John Colvin  Chris Blackmore  Sam Chimbuya  Kevin Collins  Mark Dent  John Goss  Ray Ison  Pier Paolo Roggero  Giovanna Seddaiu 《Research Policy》2014

Processes of designing for systemic innovation for sustainable development (SD) through the lens of three long-term case studies are reported. All case studies, which originated from the SLIM (Social Learning for the Integrated Management and Sustainable Use of Water at Catchment Scale) Project, funded within the EU Fifth Framework Program (2001–2004), constitute inquiry pathways that are explored using a critical incident approach. The initial starting conditions for each inquiry pathway are compared; significant pathway dependencies are identified which foster the development of social learning processes locally, but constrain their uptake and embedding across the wider system of interest. In the first case study, in England & Wales, promising developments in the application of social learning approaches to river basin planning over an initial 3-year period were subsequently marginalised, only to resurface towards the end of the 10-year period of study. In the second, South African case study, significant spaces for social learning and innovation in integrated water resources management were opened up over a five year period but closed down again, primarily as the result of lack of policy support by national government. The third, Italian, case study was designed to assess options for adapting to climate change by opening up new learning spaces between researchers, stakeholders and policy makers. A case for investing in local level systemic innovation through social-learning praxis design approaches and in learning processes around well contextualised case-studies is supported. However, concomitant investment by policy makers in social learning as an alternative, but complementary, governance mechanism for systemic innovation for SD is needed.  相似文献   

价值视角下传统武术的可持续发展     

韩衍金  梁广辉 《搏击·武术科学》2014,11(10):13-15

研究目的：探索传统武术价值功能变化发展的基本规律,整理当前传统武术价值特点及表现,分析传统武术可持续发展面临的问题,并提出相应对策,引导其朝向健康、可持续发展,对继承优秀传统文化,加强现代人道德修养,弘扬民族精神都有重要意义;研究方法：文章通过文献资料法、专家访谈法、归纳法;研究结果：传统武术具有价值多元化,技击价值的核心性,民族文化价值突出性及人文价值的趋向性特点,当前可持续发展面临着生存区域狭小,传承内容的缺失,社会媒体的误导等问题;建议：提出应辩证地对待传统武术价值的优与劣,满足人们的生活需求,促进传统武术的价值区域性发展等策略。  相似文献   

刍议公共服务视阈下的滑雪旅游资源配置     

刘石  王德新  李松梅  张海龙 《哈尔滨体育学院学报》2014,(4):1-4

始于20世纪90年代的滑雪旅游,在各级政府的引导与投入过程中,以滑雪场建设为核心,积累了一定的产业资源,但产业规模效应不强,效率与效益有待提高.本文在理清滑雪旅游公共服务重点,分析滑雪旅游资源配置现状的基础上,提出滑雪旅游的资源配置应强化公共服务作用,政府对滑雪旅游资源配置要深入发挥科学引导、政策扶持、监督促进作用;积极引入社会资本对滑雪旅游资源的投入,通过多种途径提高公共服务质量,满足人们日益增长的滑雪旅游消费需求.  相似文献   

我国体育健身俱乐部的可持续发展研究     

朱政 《哈尔滨体育学院学报》2014,(4):40-44

不断向前推进的城市化进程,为我国体育健身俱乐部的发展营造了一个适宜的发展环境.本文通过文献资料等研究方法,对我国体育健身俱乐部的现状进行研究综述,发现我国体育健身俱乐部在发展中存在诸多问题,如：政府缺乏行之有效的管理机制、服务体系不够完善、自身缺乏专业的人才及科学的管理机制、营销宣传形式单一等等.把握我国体育健身俱乐部的发展趋势,从而提出相应的发展对策,以便政府更好地发挥职能,促进全民健身运动和体育产业的可持续发展,促进我国体育俱乐部运营模式的完善和经济效益的提高,更好的发挥体育健身俱乐部对于全民健身和大众体育发展的作用.  相似文献   

Exploring the relationship between pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) and sustainability of an innovative science teaching approach     

《Teaching and Teacher Education》2017

This study identified common patterns in Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK) of three exemplary teachers who have voluntarily sustained the implementation of an argument-based inquiry approach, and explored how those patterns relate to their sustained implementation. Results indicate that teachers’ orientations aligned with argument-based inquiry, especially as to how students learn, are essential for their sustained implementation. Their orientations are strongly connected with two other components of PCK (i.e., Knowledge of Student Understanding and Knowledge of Instructional Strategies and Representations), which mutually interact with the sustainability of the implementation.  相似文献