Transformative learning in the field of sustainability: a systematic literature review (1999-2019)

Publikation: Beiträge in ZeitschriftenÜbersichtsarbeitenForschung

Authors

Purpose: This study aims to investigate how transformative learning has been conceptualised and operationalised in education for sustainable development (ESD) and sustainability learning and to collect evidence on how to support transformative learning in formal and non-formal environments. Design/methodology/approach: The authors conducted a systematic literature review to provide a structured and replicable search and analysis of the relevant literature to produce a bibliometric overview that combines a quantitative description of the body of literature and qualitative analysis of the learning processes, outcomes and conditions. Findings: The convergence between transformative learning and sustainability has become an emerging field of inquiry, despite the superficial use of transformative learning theory in many studies. By examining the learning process, outcomes and conditions in the core sample of studies, this study demonstrates that transformative learning theory – if carefully studied – can contribute to the design and implementation of educational interventions and assessments of learning towards sustainability. Furthermore, the sustainability context provides an empirical grounding that highlights the fact that social learning, the role of experience and the development of sustainability competencies are inherently part of transformative learning. Originality/value: To date, few attempts have been made to better understand how transformative learning theory has been used in sustainability learning and ESD research. This systematic review allows for a better comprehension of how concepts and mechanisms elucidated in transformative learning theory are operationalised in sustainability learning and ESD research and serves as a source of inspiration for those researchers and practitioners who aims to make sustainability education, teaching and learning more transformative.

OriginalspracheEnglisch
ZeitschriftInternational Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education
Jahrgang21
Ausgabenummer5
Seiten (von - bis)993-1013
Anzahl der Seiten21
ISSN1467-6370
DOIs
PublikationsstatusErschienen - 17.07.2020

Zugehörige Projekte

  • Processes of Sustainability Transformation (Promotionskolleg)

    Projekt: Forschung

DOI

Zuletzt angesehen

Publikationen

  1. "Wie getrennt zusammenleben?
  2. Architektur Campus Leuphana
  3. Machen Kinder doch glücklich?
  4. Kooperation von Lehrkräftebildnern im Langzeitpraktikum
  5. Evolution, Planung und Zukunft
  6. Fate of Benzalkonium Chloride in a Sewage Sludge Low Temperature Conversion Process Investigated by LC-LC/ESI-MS/MS
  7. A comparison of students' (mis)understanding of female entrepreneurship
  8. Was heisst Ontologie unserer selbst?
  9. The effect of voters’ economic perception, Brexit and campaigns on the evaluation of party leaders over time
  10. „Ghostly Embodiments“
  11. Durch Benchmarking lernen
  12. Poutrus: Umkämpftes Asyl
  13. Climate and land use affect genetic structure of Stipa glareosa P. A. Smirn. in Mongolia
  14. Remigrants and reconstruction
  15. Maternal smoking and offspring inattention and hyperactivity
  16. Trade-offs between justices, economics, and efficiency
  17. How accurate are drivers' predictions of their own mobility? Accounting for psychological factors in the development of intelligent charging technology for electric vehicles
  18. Online Peer-to-Peer Lending
  19. Rethink funding by putting the lottery first
  20. Responsible Leadership Systems
  21. Making things happen
  22. Estimation of the acid dissociation constant of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids through an experimental investigation of their water-to-air transport
  23. Influence of three different balance shoes on EMG-activity during one-leg standing
  24. Act it out! Drama teaching methods
  25. Sprach(en)sensibilität
  26. Series foreword of Series Editors
  27. Firm-Level Data
  28. Manieren beibringen
  29. Digitale Exzellenz
  30. Zusammenführende Diskussion
  31. Acute effects of resistance training at different range of motions on plantar flexion mechanical properties and force
  32. Sprechen über zu schreibende Texte
  33. Lernbegleitung im inklusiven Mathematikunterricht
  34. Neue Hoffnung für das UGB?