Innovation and Learning Labs, Higher Education and Sustainable Futures
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2019)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: Guiding sustainability transitions and education for sustainable development
Interests: Sustainability Education; Transformative and Transgressive Learning; Agency; Critical Research Methodologies
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Sustainability challenges call for new kinds of innovation and learning that cross the boundaries that have traditionally existed between higher education and societal organisations and actors. These challenges span across disciplines and organisations and often fall between the silos constructed by society. The future is not pre-defined, but needs to be co-constructed. This requires experimentation and learning into the unknown, i.e. learning what is not yet there. How can universities prepare themselves from an institutional, research, education, engagement and innovation point of view? And how can universities develop new resources and approaches for dealing with this condition?
The history of education for sustainable development has left us with a good understanding of education about, in and for sustainability. What is missing is a good understanding of education with societal actors and sustainability transitions at the centre. This Special Issue relates to the fields of education, sustainability and transition/transformation research, contributing in-depth inquiry into learning and change processes, especially how transdisciplinary approaches and learning come together in new forms of innovation.
One of the ways of dealing with the complexity of navigating into the unknown could involve experimentation. For this experimentation to be meaningful attention needs to be given to how learning is understood to be emerging from such processes that involve the collaborative defining of purpose(s) of engagement, the creation of spaces for boundary-crossing experimentation activities, working together, learning, reflexivity and evaluation. Today we see many activities emerging via multi-actor formations, often constituted in/as ‘labs’. This Special Issue calls for contributions that consider processes of experimentation, engagement and innovation at the border zones between universities, society and sustainability transitions.
Prof. Dr. John Holmberg
Prof. Dr. Heila Lotz-Sisitka
Mr. Johan Larsson
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Education and Sustainability
- Sustainability Transitions
- Higher Education
- Co-Learning
- Transdisciplinarity
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