TY - JOUR

T1 - Learning in Real-World Laboratories: A Systematic Impulse for Discussion

AU - Singer-Brodowski, Mandy

AU - Beecroft, Richard

AU - Parodi, Oliver

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - Real-world laboratories (RwLs) are a form of transdisciplinary research that facilitates learning processes as part of its transformative objectives. Nevertheless, little conceptual effort has been put into the understanding, planning, and evaluation of the learning dimension of RwL work. This paper applies a systematic approach from the discourse on education for sustainable development (ESD) to differentiate three perspectives on the various learning processes occurring in RwLs and exemplifies them with experiences from the RwL Urban Transition Lab 131 in Karlsruhe.

AB - Real-world laboratories (RwLs) are a form of transdisciplinary research that facilitates learning processes as part of its transformative objectives. Nevertheless, little conceptual effort has been put into the understanding, planning, and evaluation of the learning dimension of RwL work. This paper applies a systematic approach from the discourse on education for sustainable development (ESD) to differentiate three perspectives on the various learning processes occurring in RwLs and exemplifies them with experiences from the RwL Urban Transition Lab 131 in Karlsruhe.

KW - Transdisciplinary studies

KW - Education for sustainable development

KW - Educational theory

KW - Interdisciplinarity

KW - Real-world laboratory

KW - Social learning

KW - Transdisciplinarity

KW - Transformation

KW - Transformative science

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85046158672&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.14512/gaia.27.s1.7

DO - 10.14512/gaia.27.s1.7

M3 - Scientific review articles

VL - 27

SP - 23

EP - 27

JO - GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

JF - GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society

SN - 0940-5550

IS - SP 1

ER -