Living systems, sustainability education, and institutional change

Michael K. Stone; Zenobia Barlow

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Living systems, sustainability education, and institutional change

In: Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change

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Michael K. Stone

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Pages:: 381–394

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.3920/9789086867578_0028

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In the midst of rapid change, we are convinced of the importance of an ecological approach in which teaching, learning, community, and collaboration are firmly grounded in understanding how natural and social systems function and how to effect change in them. Since its founding in 1995, the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley, California has been dedicated to formulating and practicing sustainability education, drawing especially on the Theory of Living Systems as developed by systems theorist and Center cofounder Fritjof Capra and others. This chapter explores strategies for social change and education derived from applying lessons from living systems. Among them: developing and strengthening networks, widening participation (‘connecting the system to more of itself’), addressing problems at multiple levels of scale, nurturing systems’ capacity for self-organisation rather than attempting to manage change, taking long views, creating conditions that encourage the emergence of creative and surprising solutions. The chapter reviews the application of these strategies within the Center’s work, especially in the Oakland, California school district, and concludes with suggested guidelines by which organisations may assess their own readiness for systems change.

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Learning for sustainability in times of accelerating change

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Publisher:: Wageningen Academic

Print Publication Date:: 15 Nov 2012

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