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Understanding urban sustainability from Mode 2 Science and transdisciplinary education: how Master Thesis Ateliers of the Ghent Stadsacademie tackle wicked issues
- Ghent University
The wicked sustainability problems that we are increasingly facing not only require new ways of knowledge production, but also challenge our traditional educational system. More and more importance is attached ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Universities confronting climate change: beyond sustainable development and solutionism
- University of British Columbia (BC)
This article reflects on recent calls for universities to deepen their commitments to sustainability in the face of climate change. It suggests that because climate change is a “wicked problem ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Just Sustainable Leadership: Integrating Stakeholders
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Wicked environmental dilemmas (e.g. climate change) are difficult to explain, plainly define, have no one solution, and are often the result of other indefinable problems that require integrative collaborative ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Environmental & Sustainability Studies BA/BS
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Students will gain the broad educational background needed to create positive change as leaders, thinkers, decision-makers, and citizens. The program emphasizes a practical approach to environmental issues through collaborative problem-solving ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Training wicked scientists for a world of wicked problems
- Dickinson College (PA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Humanity faces a number of wicked problems, from global climate change and the coronavirus pandemic to systemic racism and widening economic inequality. Since such complex and dynamic problems are plagued ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Wicked problems: university research topic convergence despite divergence in local educational and innovation policies
- National Defense University (DC)
- Häme University of Applied Sciences
- Universidade Feevale
This study aims to determine how sustainable development (SD) demands (according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe’s (UNECE) SD themes from 2005) are connected to the contents ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Inner Transformation for 21st-Century Futures: The Missing Dimension in Higher Education
- Indian Institute of Technology Madras
We live in times of great global risks and problems that pose multiple wicked, interdependent challenges, such as climate change, environmental degradation, social inequalities, geopolitical tensions ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Teaching wicked problems in higher education: ways of thinking and practising
- University of Edinburgh
- Wageningen University
This paper reports on teachers’ perspectives on preparing students for working with ‘wicked’ problems (Rittel and Webber [1973]. ‘Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning.’ Policy Sciences 4 (2): 155 ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Learning to survive: Wicked problem education for the Anthropocene age
- University of South Florida (FL)
This article addresses major lacunae in higher education from the standpoint of Anthropocenic survival. Wicked problems transcend national, cultural and disciplinary boundaries. Eco-survival, international migration, destabilized global markets, shifts in ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Educational contexts and designs for cultivating leaders capable of addressing the wicked issues of sustainability transitions.
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
The ongoing sustainability crisis offer numerous, multifaced societal challenges as a result of the ongoing degradation of socio-ecological systems by human activity causing massive ecological damage and human suffering. Overcoming ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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The wicked problem of teaching about wicked problems: Design thinking and emerging technologies in sustainability education
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Montpellier Business School (Montpellier)
In this paper, we explore the system-level challenges found in sustainability-focused education and consider how the intersections of design thinking and emerging technologies in augmented and virtual reality (AVR) can ...
- Posted April 21, 2021
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A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems
- Utrecht University
This paper investigates how the teaching and learning about “wicked” environmental problems may be fostered through an educational approach premised on futuring – the active imagination of the future. The growing ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Teaching (super) wicked problems: authentic learning about climate change
- St Mary's University College
Climate change is a ‘super-wicked’ problem associated with challenges including food security, mass migration and biodiversity loss. Young people are increasingly expecting their university education to prepare them to address ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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Design precepts for online experiential learning programs to address wicked sustainability problems
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
There are increasing pressures within the higher education sector to incorporate digital pedagogies into teaching and learning, a trend amplified by recent extensive recourse to online delivery within the sector ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Principles for responsible management education in 2068
- Glasgow Caledonian University
- The Sino-British College, USST (Shanghai)
- Gratia Christian College
- Donghua University (Shanghai)
The authors explore the potential relevance of the United Nations initiative Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) in 50 years’ time, including whether, and how, the six Principles on which ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Wicked Leadership Competencies for Sustainability Professionals: Definition, Pedagogy, and Assessment
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Sustainability professionals need specialized leadership competencies to effectively influence the complex, uncertain, conflicted, and dynamic (i.e., wicked) sustainability challenges of our time. Higher education programs can teach these leadership ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2018
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A pedagogy of interconnectedness for encountering climate change as a wicked sustainability problem
- University of Helsinki
- University of Eastern Finland
Climate change is a wicked problem of our time. It is a phenomenon that is difficult to combat with prevailing ways of thinking and behaving related to a modern understanding ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2018
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DePauw University hosts Earth Week keynote Ian Cheney, filmmaker and founding member of FoodCorps
- DePauw University (IN)
DePauw University's Earth Week keynoter, Ian Cheney, is a founding member of FoodCorps, a food justice nonprofit focused on equitable access to healthy food in public schools, and a ...
- Posted April 26, 2018
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Meat Consumption as a Wicked Problem: Evidence from Data and Policies
- University of Turku
Sustainable food production and consumption is fundamental to the achievement of the worldwide UN Sustainable Development Goals. For a food system to be sustainable, it needs to provide adequate nutrition ...
- Posted April 11, 2018
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Avoid, Control, Succumb, or Balance: Engineering Students’ Approaches to a Wicked Sustainability Problem
- Chalmers University of Technology
- University of Gothenburg
Wicked sustainability problems (WSPs) are an important and particularly challenging type of problem. Science and engineering education can play an important role in preparing students to deal with such problems ...
- Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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An Introduction to Sustainability Service-Learning Course for the Creation of Sustainable Citizens to Engage Wicked Problems
The current era of American discourse and dialogue is increasingly characterized as becoming less civilized. This lack of civility, whether real or perceived, negatively impacts our ability as a society ...
- Posted June 8, 2017
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The role(s) of universities in dealing with global wicked problems through multi-stakeholder initiatives
- Wageningen University
- University of Cape Town
Multi-stakeholder initiatives have emerged as collaborative partnerships to deal with wicked problems, particularly in the global food system. This article analyzes the role that academics play in these initiatives at ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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