Cook, Justin W.

Sustainability, Human Well-Being, and the Future of Education.

Cham

2019

978-3-319-78580-6

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This open access book explores the key dimensions of a future education system designed to enable individuals, schools, and communities to achieve the twin twenty-first century challenges of sustainability and human well-being. For much of the twentieth century, Western education systems prepared students to enter the workforce, contribute to society and succeed in relatively predictable contexts. Today, people are at the controls of the planet—making decisions that are dramatically reshaping social, economic, and environmental systems at a global scale. What is education′s purpose in this new reality? What and how must we learn now? The volatility and uncertainty caused by digitalization, globalization, and climate change weave a common backdrop through each chapter. Using case studies drawn from Finland and the US, chapter authors explore various aspects of learning and education system design through the lenses of sustainability and human well-being to evaluate how our understanding and practice of education must transform. Using their scholarly research and experience as practitioners, the authors propose new approaches to preparing learners for a new frontier of the human experience fraught with risks but full of opportunity.

Contents

1 Learning at the Edge of History 1
Justin W. Cook

2 Toward Robust Foundations for Sustainable Well-Being Societies: Learning to Change by Changing How We Learn 31
Harold Glasser

3 Sustainable Wellbeing Society—A Challenge for a Public Sector Institution 91
Jari Salminen

4 Schools as Equitable Communities of Inquiry 121
Robert Riordan and Stacey Caillier

5 Transforming Our Worldview Towards a Sustainable Future 161
Erkka Laininen

6 Towards Solving the Impossible Problems 201
Asta Raami

7 Unlocking the Future of Learning by Redesigning Educator Learning 235
Adam Rubin and Ali Brown

8 Four-Dimensional Education for Sustainable Societies 269
Charles Fadel and Jennifer S. Groff

9 Creativity, the Arts, and the Future of Work 283
Linda F. Nathan

10 A New Narrative for the Future: Learning, Social Cohesion and Redefining ″Us″ 311
Marjo Kyllönen

11 Climate Change Education: A New Approach for a World of Wicked Problems 339
Anna Lehtonen, Arto O. Salonen and Hannele Cantell

12 Case Study: Kaospilots—From Passive Listeners to Global Change Agents 375
Jenna Lähdemäki

13 Case Study: The Finnish National Curriculum 2016—A Co-created National Education Policy 397
Jenna Lähdemäki

index 423

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