Editorial: Delving Into Unsustainability in Diverse World Scenarios: Probing into our Search for Sustainability Through Insightful Research Projects
Year: 2024
Type: editorial
Abstract: The current volume contains articles from different parts of the world, particularly research from our cooperation partners from South Africa, Jamaica, Lesotho, Indonesia and Malasia that re�lects diverse ways of dealing with unsustainability in our world, by offering rich solutions for sense making processes in the middle of global crises.The papers from the USA, Germany, Indonesia and Nigeria offer rich insights and wisdom for developing agency in global crises in dealing with complex issues and suggest healing through rethinking human-nature relationships, developing environmental literacy and advocating sustainability efforts by engaging readers in the process of cothinking and co-acting for a more sustainable future.Practical suggestions have been offered by the authors from South Africa in dealing with the capacity building of STEM teachers by equipping them with sustainable competencies in order to educate pro�icient thinkers and problem solvers who understand complex problems, tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty, as well as produce potentially viable solutions.Sustainability of digitalization processes has been discussed both in higher education setting and in prison setting by the authors of this volume by elaborating how digitalization is reshaping our ways of doing and teaching.The authors are addressing complex challenges associated with the digitalization processes and the adaptability of new technologies, as well as disparities in technology access and equitable implementation of Industry 4.0 technologies.These challenges are related to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for contributing to more sustainable ways of being, and building a more sustainable society of the future.The papers offer diverse perspectives by keeping in mind nested social, ecological, cultural and political contexts to make sense in the time of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity.Studies included in this volume offer transcontextual richness that stem from placebased approach towards the issues of study.Diverse perspectives re�lected in the papers expand the boundaries of dominant Western worldviews and value systems and lead to transformed understandings towards collective �lourishing and sustainability.The studies invite readers to re�lect on their capacity to make conscious and critical framings when they deal with unsustainability and gain new insights and wisdom, as well as develop global ecology of perspectives.The article written by Mahsa Kazempour utilizes a mixed-method research approach to explore college students' experiences and engagement in an undergraduate science weekly discussion forum focused on communicating and discoursing about
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4407211554