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- Ishihara, Sachiko, et al.
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Back from the Future We Want : Backcasting as a pedagogical practice towards sustainable futures
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Ingår i: Envisioning futures for environmental and sustainability education. - Wageningen Academic Publishers : Wageningen Academic Publishers. - 9789086863037 ; , s. 333-344
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- How can education train imagination and creativity to think about ‘the future we want?’ How can we create learning experiences to head towards these desirable futures? In this chapter, we explore backcasting as a pedagogical practice in the group project ‘Back from the Future We Want’, as a part of the interdisciplinary student-led course ‘Global Challenges and Sustainable Futures’. In small groups, students were asked to choose a specific city/village in the world and: (1) describe their visions of a ‘sustainable and desirable future’ for the region in year 2100; (2) develop a transition strategy to reach the described future written as a fictional ‘history’ between 2015 and 2100; and (3) form concrete recommendations for today. Overall, this assignment gave students the opportunity to think and discuss what a ‘sustainable and desirable future’ would include, and provided new ways of looking at the present from a future perspective. Their visions suggested new normativity in each region, which expressed critiques towards present society in various forms, and the process allowed students to think of solutions and how to transform society. The assignment holds further potential as material to have critical discussions about societal directions, including technological, cultural, and ideological assumptions. This chapter intends to inspire further development of sustainable futures education.
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- Saito, Julie, et al.
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Grounding the future in the past and the present: community-based sustainability in an old Japanese mining town
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Ingår i: Envisioning Futures for Environmental an Sustainability Education. - Wageningen : Wageningen Academic Publishers. - 9789086863037
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Around the world there are attempts by communities to re-create themselves based on values and customs that are more in harmony with the past and the future, and more mindful of people and planet. A question is whether these communities can do so in a globalising world where it is impossible to escape, for instance, digitalization and climate change. How to balance this attempt to live lightly, meaningfully and locally, while not becoming isolated and impaired by only looking inward with likeminded people? UNESCO identified the town of Omori in Japan as a town that seems to be successful in reviving a town in decline. A mixed group of international experts, scholars, practitioners and policy-makers from all corners of the world gathered in Omori to see for themselves what sustainable living might look like. By talking to the community and getting a sense of place they jointly reflected on the implications for education in the context of sustainable development. This chapter describes the town of Omori and offers insights in the future of sustainability education that are driven by practice as opposed to by theory.
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