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Leading Sustainability through Re-

Integrative Education: You and

Higher Education Institutions

Ian D. Tran

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Presentation Overview

Introduction & Methods

Sustainability: Wicked Problems, Complex

Systems

Understanding & Higher Education

Embracing, Envisioning, Enacting: Choose your

adventure!Recapitulation

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"You got kids who say they 'can't wait to get outthey sound like prisoners...

It got real sophisticated, but slavery still exists--now youre paying for your captivity...

-Willie, UM-Dearborn Wellness Center Clerk

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Big Questions

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Methods

1. Interdisciplinary research

Complex systems

Crisis management and leadership Sustainability in higher education research,

epistemology

Transdisciplinary studies2. Experiential learning (LIFE!)

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Sustainability: Wicked Problems and

Complex Systems

Wicked Problems:

Dynamic (always changing and continuously

happening)

Unusually complicated

can be common and pervasive

Frequently relate to real-life/death issues Defining the problem is challenging

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Higher Education

Objectivism in research:

Describe, control and predict (Fein 2002)

1) Absolutism and false dichotomy for understandingreality and consciousness

2) Separation from context rejects experiential insight

3) Beguiles people to assume objective tools will alwaysyield objective results

4) Tends to consumptively use others for researchwithout necessarily providing benefit to those used forstudy

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Higher Education

Solutions: Interdisciplinarity andTransdisciplinarity

Integrative-learning Insight from diverse fields Multiplicative rather than additive

Experiential-learning Skills, engagement

Field-Biology Co-op/internships

Inside-Out Prison Exchange

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Embracing, Envisioning, Engaging

value of sustainability is broadly

acknowledged within the academic community,

interdisciplinary activities tend to be seen as

secondary to discipline-based approaches(Warburton 2003 cites Cartese 1992; Dyer 1997)Deep learning and education for sustainability

p. 44-56 Int. Journ. Of Sust in Higher Ed. 4,1

Understood, but no action!

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Selected References

Sustainability

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Kraynak, J. 2010. The Land and the Economics of SustainabilityArt Journal vol69, no. 4.

Leopold, A. 1949. The Land Ethic.A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There Oxford University Press

Macnaghten, P.; Grove-White, R.; Jacobs, M.; Wynne, B. 1995 Public perceptions and sustainability in Lancashire:Indicators, Institutions, and Participation Lancashire City Council

Miller, E.; Buys. L.; Summerville, J. Quantifying the Social Dimension of Triple Bottom Line: Development of aFramework and Indicators to Assess the Social Impact of Organisations (2007) International Journal ofGovernance & Business Ethics 223-227

Mebratu, D. 1996 . Sustainability and Sustainable Development: Historical and Conceptual ReviewEnvironmental Impact Assessment Review, 18.

Norman, W. and Macdonald, C. 2003 Getting to the Bottom of Triple Bottom Line Business Ethics Quarterly,March 2003

Ratner, B. 2004. Sustainability as a Dialogue of Values: Challenges to the Sociology of DevelopmentSociological Inquiry, vol. 74, No. 1 50-69

Seager, T. 2008. The Sustainability Spectrum and the Sciences of Sustainability Business Strategy and theEnvironment17, 444-453.

Wals, A. and Jickling, B. (2002) Sustainability in higher education: From doublethink and newspeak to criticalthinking and meaningful learning. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education vol. 3 no 3 p. 221-232

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