Singleton, Benedict
- Institutionen för stad och land, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
Continued unsustainability and surpassed planetary boundaries require not only scientific and technological advances, but deep and enduring social and cultural changes. The purpose of this article is to contribute a theoretical approach to understand conditions and constraints for societal change towards sustainable development. In order to break with unsustainable norms, habits, practices, and structures, there is a need for learning for transformation, not only adaption. Based on a critical literature review within the field of learning for sustainable development, our approach is a development of the concept of transformative learning, by integrating three additional dimensionsInstitutional Structures, Social Practices, and Conflict Perspectives. This approach acknowledges conflicts on macro, meso, and micro levels, as well as structural and cultural constraints. It contends that transformative learning is processual, interactional, long-term, and cumbersome. It takes place within existing institutions and social practices, while also transcending them. The article adopts an interdisciplinary social science perspective that acknowledges the importance of transformative learning in order for communities, organizations, and individuals to be able to deal with global sustainability problems, acknowledging the societal and personal conflicts involved in such transformation.
Nyckelord
conflict; institutional; learning; social change; social practice; structure; transformative
Publicerad i
Sustainability
2018, volym: 10, nummer: 12, artikelnummer: 4479
SLU författare
Associerade SLU-program
SLU Centrum för biologisk mångfald, CBM
Globala målen (SDG)
SDG4 God utbildning för alla
SDG12 Hållbar konsumtion och produktion
UKÄ forskningsämne
Annan utbildningsvetenskaplig forskning
Statsvetenskap (Exklusive freds- och konfliktforskning)
Sociologi (exklusive socialt arbete, socialpsykologi och socialantropologi)
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su10124479
Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)
https://res.slu.se/id/publ/97694