1. Science as community:Sustainability-oriented trans-disciplinary research Arjen E.J. Wals

2. Outline • Unsustainability, change & confusion • Hybrid learning in post-normal times • Science as community - phronesis

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6. Who knows? Who cares? • Deepwater horizon • Nuclear radiation in Japan • Increased infertility in men • Calcium supplements for women • Runaway (?) climate change • Organic – sustainable – for all? • Paper or plastic? • …. ‘ We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom’E.O. Wilson, 1998, p. 300)

7. Post-normalism • Complexity • Uncertainty and indeterminacy • Contestation and controversy – extinction of ‘truth’ & erosion of ‘trust” (fact free science, fact free politics, science as opinion) • Shallowness and hyper-connectivity – erosion of meaning • Emergence - reflexivity

9. “The conventional wisdom holds that all education [and research] is good, and the more of it one has, the better.… The truth is that without significant precautions, [it] can equip people merely to be more effective vandals of the Earth”(D. Orr).

10. Trends and counter-trends in higher education Science for impact factors – science for society Increasing efficiency– promoting authentic learning Science as ‘commodity’ – science as ‘community’ trendcounter-trend

11. Science for impact factors – trend Time to read/review n-scientists n-publications What’s you h-factor? 1990 2000 2010 T

12. Science for society – counter trend

13. Increasing efficiency - trend Diploma factory - trend

14. Authentic learning – counter trend

15. Science as commodity - trend More private funding Billable hours Accountability

16. Science as community – counter trend

18. Rethinking science

21. Closed Predetermined Prescribed “Normal” instrumental Instructors Coaches Passive receivers Active receivers Extrinsic/external Knowledge circulation Knowledge transfer Universal Participatory Democratic Social Learning Authoritative Hierarchical Training Facilitators & co-learners emancipatory Active-empowered Intrinsic/internal Open Self-determined Co-created Contextual Knowledge co-creation Post-normal

23. Hybrid Learning Configuration • A vital coalition of multiple stakeholders engaged in a common challenge using a blend of learning processes in a rich context (sum>parts)

24. Source: George Siemens, 2008

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