Using learning processes to promote change for sustainable development

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6134725
AutoresDavid Ballard (0000-0002-2755-1326, University of Bath, autor correspondente)
Ano2005
Volume3
Fascículo2
Páginas135-156
Data de publicação2005-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAction Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1476-7503 • E-ISSN: 1741-2617
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1476750305052138
OpenAlexW2078197978
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências 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