Make a Change by Exchanging Views

Gilbert Ahamer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria) and Thomas Jekel (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria)
Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 30
EISBN13: 9781609602758|DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-749-7.ch001
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Abstract

Initially, this case presents a theoretical description highlighting how spaces are constructed. Perspectives onto reality are the elemental units of our world. They are changed through learning processes. Societal learning can enlarge and approximate spaces of understanding. Social spaces are a type of “social capital”. Design of learning procedures refers to the design of structures in time, space and in the space of opinions that facilitates multi-perspectivist and multidisciplinary understanding of involved stakeholders. The following section of this case dwells on several cases of cooperative learning through dialogue: the project Schools on Ice, the UniGIS online curriculum, the UniNet network in Kyrgyzstan and Nepal, Global Studies, the ESD forum, the Environmental Systems Analysis Curriculum USW, and the European Union Twinning tool applied in Slovakia, Slovenia, Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
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