IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jsusta/v2y2010i12p3735-3746d10436.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Sustainability, Learning and Capability: Exploring Questions of Balance

Author

Listed:
  • William A. H. Scott

    (Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK)

  • Stephen R. Gough

    (Centre for Research in Education and the Environment, University of Bath, Claverton Down, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK)

Abstract

It is argued that sustainable development makes best sense as a social learning process that brings tangible and useful outcomes in terms of understanding and skills, and also reinforces the motivation and capability for further learning. Thus, there are always balances to be struck between a broad-based, wide-ranging education and a more specialist one; between a focus on ideas themselves, and on their application in social or economic contexts; and between keeping ideas separate, and integrating them. This paper will explore the nature of such balances, and the issues to bear in mind when striking them, focusing on schools, university and college contexts within the United Kingdom.

Suggested Citation

  • William A. H. Scott & Stephen R. Gough, 2010. "Sustainability, Learning and Capability: Exploring Questions of Balance," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 2(12), pages 1-12, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:2:y:2010:i:12:p:3735-3746:d:10436
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/12/3735/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/2/12/3735/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Midori Kawabe & Hiroshi Kohno & Takashi Ishimaru & Osamu Baba, 2013. "A University-Hosted Program in Pursuit of Coastal Sustainability: The Case of Tokyo Bay," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 5(9), pages 1-20, September.
    2. Paul Ofei-Manu & Satoshi Shimano, 2012. "In Transition towards Sustainability: Bridging the Business and Education Sectors of Regional Centre of Expertise Greater Sendai Using Education for Sustainable Development-Based Social Learning," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 4(7), pages 1-26, July.
    3. Adolfo Cazorla-Montero & Ignacio de los Ríos-Carmenado & Juan Ignacio Pasten, 2019. "Sustainable Development Planning: Master’s Based on a Project-Based Learning Approach," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(22), pages 1-23, November.
    4. Harald A. Mieg & Ralph Hansmann & Peter M. Frischknecht, 2011. "National Sustainability Outreach Assessment Based on Human and Social Capital: The Case of Environmental Sciences in Switzerland," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 4(1), pages 1-25, December.
    5. Christina Marouli, 2021. "Sustainability Education for the Future? Challenges and Implications for Education and Pedagogy in the 21st Century," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(5), pages 1-15, March.
    6. Sarah Holdsworth & Ian Thomas & Orana Sandri, 2018. "Assessing Graduate Sustainability Attributes Using a Vignette/Scenario Approach," Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, , vol. 12(2), pages 120-139, September.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:2:y:2010:i:12:p:3735-3746:d:10436. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.