14. Sustainability as an Outcome of Transformative Learning
Year: 2006
Type: book
Abstract: Universities in particular have a responsibility to create space for alternative thinking.
They have a profound role to play in developing students’ dynamic qualities or so-called
competencies. They will need these qualities to cope with uncertainty, poorly defined situations,
and conflicting or at least diverging norms, values, interests and reality constructions. The
development of these dynamic qualities and related competencies sets higher education apart
from institutions that provide training or conditioning, and makes the prescription of particular
lifestyles or codes of behaviour or convergence towards a particular set of privileged values and
interests problematic. Such prescription stifles creativity, homogenizes thinking, narrows
choices, limits autonomous thinking, and minimizes degrees of self-determination.
In this paper we will focus on dynamic qualities for transformative living, and on the
kinds of learning processes and university structures that are conducive for their development
Authors: A. E. J Wals, Peter Blaze Corcoran
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1552731387