Using learning processes to promote change for sustainable development

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6134725
AutoresDavid Ballard (0000-0002-2755-1326, University of Bath, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen3
Número2
Páginas135-156
Fecha de publicación2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAction Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1476750305052138
OpenAlexW2078197978
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas20

Sustainable development is widely recognized as a major change challenge, though its urgency is not as widely appreciated. This article begins by reviewing the challenge and showing how it is not currently being taken up. Drawing on the wider literature, it identifies some of the key contextual issues that need to be addressed in change programmes for sustainability. It then develops a simple model of three conditions, ‘awareness’, ‘agency’ (the identification of meaningful ways of responding) and ‘association’ with other people, whose development is shown to be crucial in addressing these issues and hence to promoting change for sustainable development. It also identifies a vital process (‘action and reflection’) for doing this. The article concludes with a case example, using this model to review a change initiative in the corporate sector

Action (physics · Action research · Agency (philosophy · Business · Engineering ethics · Identification (biology · Political science · Process (computing · Process management · Social science · Sociology · Sustainability · Sustainable development · Complex Systems and Decision Making · Computer Science · Engineering · Environmental Education and Sustainability · Sustainability in Higher Education