Learning for Sustainability Action Model: Lessons Learnt from Community Living Labs
Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2022
ISBN: 978-1-83797-485-6, eISBN: 978-1-83797-484-9
Publication date: 14 December 2023
Abstract
Initiating a practical model for embedding transformative learning in education that will promote sustainable development is a challenge for higher education. Siam University decided to assign a task force with the mission to work with communities in order to propose guidelines of learning for sustainability (LfS) based on real-life experiences. Selected communities which have agreed to be the community living labs for teaching and learning activities of the university were chosen based on the Bray and Thomas’ Cube Model. There are differences in sizes (number of members), locations (urban, suburban), and histories (old settlement with long history and rich culture and the newly settlement communities consisting of migrated members). Community-based participatory research (CBPR) was applied in the study. The initial model was developed from the synthesis of experiential work with communities in sustainability-related projects. After revision, the “Learning for Sustainability Action Model” was proposed. Success factors in implementing the model were also suggested.
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Citation
Rukspollmuang, C., Reynolds, J. and Chansema, P. (2023), "Learning for Sustainability Action Model: Lessons Learnt from Community Living Labs", Wiseman, A.W. (Ed.) Annual Review of Comparative and International Education 2022 (International Perspectives on Education and Society, Vol. 46B), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 49-71. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-36792023000046B004
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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