The lived experience of climate change: creating open educational resources and virtual mobility for an innovative, integrative and competence-based track at Masters level

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Wilson, Gordon, Abbott, Dina, De Kraker, Joop, Salgado Perez, Paquita, de Kraker, J. and Van Scheltinga, Catharein. Terwisscha 2012. The lived experience of climate change: creating open educational resources and virtual mobility for an innovative, integrative and competence-based track at Masters level. International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning.
AuthorsWilson, Gordon, Abbott, Dina, De Kraker, Joop, Salgado Perez, Paquita, de Kraker, J. and Van Scheltinga, Catharein. Terwisscha
Abstract

Paper first presented at The International Conference on Technology-Enhanced Learning "Tech-Education", Athens, Greece, 2010.

This paper explores a new integrative approach to climate change education at Masters level. Drawing on the authors’ involvement in a European Union Erasmus project, it is argued that the diversity of knowledge(s) on climate change are a source of active/social learning. The wide variety of disciplinary, sectoral and lived experiential (both individual and collective) knowledge(s) are all considered legitimate in this exercise, the aim of which is to construct new interdisciplinary knowledge from their boundary interfaces. We further argue for a corresponding pedagogy based on developing transboundary competences – the ability to engage in social learning and action through communicative engagement across knowledge boundaries. We acknowledge that the challenges for enacting transboundary competence are considerable when it requires mobility across epistemological, even ontological, boundaries. The challenges are further compounded when the communicative engagement across space and time requires virtual mobility which is ICT-enabled. Nevertheless, meeting them is a normative goal, not only for this expanded, integrative approach to climate change education, but also for a global resolution of climate change itself.

This paper explores a new integrative approach to climate change
education at Masters level. Drawing on the authors’ involvement in a European
Union Erasmus project, it is argued that the diversity of knowledge(s) on
climate change are a source of active/social learning. The wide variety of
disciplinary, sectoral and lived experiential (both individual and collective)
knowledge(s) are all considered legitimate in this exercise, the aim of which is
to construct new interdisciplinary knowledge from their boundary interfaces.
We further argue for a corresponding pedagogy based on developing
transboundary competences – the ability to engage in social learning and
action through communicative engagement across knowledge boundaries. We
acknowledge that the challenges for enacting transboundary competence
are considerable when it requires mobility across epistemological, even
ontological, boundaries. The challenges are further compounded when the
communicative engagement across space and time requires virtual mobility
which is ICT-enabled. Nevertheless, meeting them is a normative goal, not only
for this expanded, integrative approach to climate change education, but also
for a global resolution of climate change itself.

KeywordsClimate change; Interdisciplinary
Year2012
JournalInternational Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning
PublisherInderscience Publishers
ISSN1753-5255
Web address (URL)http://hdl.handle.net/10545/226451
hdl:10545/226451
Publication dates29 May 2012
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ContributorsUniversity of Derby
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