Sustainability, science, and higher education: The need for new paradigms
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Sustainability, science, and higher education : The need for new paradigms. / Martens, Pim; Roorda, Niko; Cörvers, Ron.
in: Sustainability, Jahrgang 3, Nr. 5, 11.10.2010, S. 294-303.Publikation: Beiträge in Zeitschriften › Zeitschriftenaufsätze › Forschung › begutachtet
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T1 - Sustainability, science, and higher education
T2 - The need for new paradigms
AU - Martens, Pim
AU - Roorda, Niko
AU - Cörvers, Ron
PY - 2010/10/11
Y1 - 2010/10/11
N2 - In translating the concept of sustainable development into science and education, a number of fundamental barriers and practical obstacles have to be taken into account. However, there are also interesting opportunities and attractive challenges to make sustainable development "researchable, teachable, and learnable." New paradigms, or at least a shift in dominant paradigms, are required. Transition of the old curricula into more "sustainability-oriented curricula" means that the limited mono- and multidisciplinary approaches need to be replaced by full multi- and interdisciplinarity. This educational transition, which took place in several Dutch universities in the past two decades, and shifts in paradigm changed the educational system, which is now based on ideas from problem-based learning, project education, internationalization, multi- and interdisciplinarity, and competence-based education.
AB - In translating the concept of sustainable development into science and education, a number of fundamental barriers and practical obstacles have to be taken into account. However, there are also interesting opportunities and attractive challenges to make sustainable development "researchable, teachable, and learnable." New paradigms, or at least a shift in dominant paradigms, are required. Transition of the old curricula into more "sustainability-oriented curricula" means that the limited mono- and multidisciplinary approaches need to be replaced by full multi- and interdisciplinarity. This educational transition, which took place in several Dutch universities in the past two decades, and shifts in paradigm changed the educational system, which is now based on ideas from problem-based learning, project education, internationalization, multi- and interdisciplinarity, and competence-based education.
KW - Transdisciplinary studies
KW - Sustainability sciences, Communication
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77958143689&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1089/SUS.2010.9744
DO - 10.1089/SUS.2010.9744
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:77958143689
VL - 3
SP - 294
EP - 303
JO - Sustainability
JF - Sustainability
SN - 1937-0695
IS - 5
ER -