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Reflective Practice for Sustainable Development

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Action inquiry; Action learning; Action research; Co-inquiry; Collaborative action research; Cooperative inquiry; Experiential learning; Holistic education; Humanistic education; Internship; Living case study; Negotiated work-based learning; Problem-based learning; Reflective practice; Service learning; Systemic inquiry; Work-based learning

Definition

Reflective practices is a form of learning through experience which can be transactional (e.g., making sense of an experience), transformative (e.g., challenging thinking or wider influential structures), or transcendental (engaging with a higher plane of experience related to life purpose). Reflective practice for sustainable development explicitly target such issues either in the process or outcome of related practices.

Introduction

The efficacy of developing institutional approaches for, and curriculum content about, sustainable development has been criticized as insufficient to change behavior in practice (Wall et al. 2017)....

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  1. International Thriving at Work Research Group, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall & Denise Meakin

  2. Centre for Work Related Studies, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall & Denise Meakin

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  1. Faculty of Life Sciences, World Sustainable Development Research and Transfer Centre, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

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  1. School of Architecture and Design,Program Manager, Master of Disaster Design and Development, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    Judy Rogers

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Wall, T., Meakin, D. (2019). Reflective Practice for Sustainable Development. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11352-0_362

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