A Unifying, Boundary-Crossing Approach to Developing Climate Literacy

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the continuing dearth of scholarship about the role of work-based learning in education for sustainable development, and particularly the urgent demands of climate literacy. It is proposed that forms of work-based learning can act as catalysts for wider cultural change, towards embedding climate literacy in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach This paper draws data from action research to present a case study of a Climate Change Project conducted through a work-based learning module at a mid-sized university in the UK. Findings Contrary to the predominantly fragmented and disciplinary bounded approaches to sustainability and climate literacy, the case study demonstrates how a form of work-based learning can create a unifying vision for action, and do so across multiple disciplinary, professional service, and identity boundaries. In addition, the project-generated indicators of cultural change including extensive faculty-level climate change resources, creative ideas for an innovative mobile application, and new infrastructural arrangements to further develop practice and research in climate change. Practical implications This paper provides an illustrative example of how a pan-faculty work-based learning module can act as a catalyst for change at a higher education institution. Originality/value This paper is a contemporary call for action to stimulate and expedite climate literacy in higher education, and is the first to propose that certain forms of work-based learning curricula can be a route to combating highly bounded and fragmented approaches, towards a unified and boundary-crossing approach.

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Competenza ad agire insieme e senso di iniziativa: il tirocinio per attraversare i confini tra studio e lavoro

EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY ◽

10.3280/ess2-2019oa8622 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 93-102

Author(s):

Fabrizio d'Aniello

Keyword(s):

Professional Growth ◽

Capability Approach ◽

Boundary Crossing ◽

Methodological Framework ◽

Knowledge Models ◽

Internship Experience ◽

Cultural Historical Activity ◽

The University ◽

And Training ◽

The Capability Approach

The pre-eminent motivation behind this contribution lies in the intention to offer students of three-year degree course in education and training sciences and master's degree in pedagogical sciences of the University of Macerata a further support than those already existing, aimed at expanding the educational meaningfulness of the internship experience. The main criticality of such experience is connected with the difficulty in translating knowledge, models, ideas into appropriate activities. This notably refers to the conceptual and educational core of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship and, consistently, to the skill to act. Therefore, after a deepening of the sense of initiative and entrepreneurship, followed by related pedagogical reflections based on the capability approach, the paper presents an operative proposal aimed at increasing young people's possibilities of action and supporting their personal and professional growth. With regard to this training proposal, the theoretical and methodological framework refers to the third generation cultural historical activity theory and to the tool of the boundary crossing laboratory, variant of the change laboratory

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NASA EARTH SYSTEMS, TECHNOLOGY AND ENERGY EDUCATION FOR MINORITY UNIVERSITY AND RESEARCH EDUCATION PROGRAM PROMOTES CLIMATE LITERACY BY ENGAGING STUDENTS AT MINORITY SERVING INSTITUTIONS IN STEM

10.1130/abs/2017am-306859 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Bonnie Murray ◽

Keyword(s):

Education Program ◽

Research Education ◽

Energy Education ◽

Earth Systems ◽

Climate Literacy ◽

Minority Serving Institutions

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DEVELOPMENT OF AN OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE AIMED AT INCREASING CLIMATE LITERACY BEYOND STEM DISCIPLINES

10.1130/abs/2020se-345120 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Caroline Davock ◽

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Julia Herzfeld ◽

Bosiljka Glumac ◽

Graeham Dodd

Keyword(s):

Open Educational Resource ◽

Educational Resource ◽

Stem Disciplines ◽

Climate Literacy

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The Dynamics of Society-in-the-Self

10.1093/oso/9780190687793.003.0002 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Hubert J. M Hermans

Keyword(s):

Social Environment ◽

The Self ◽

Boundary Crossing ◽

The World ◽

Self And Identity ◽

New Vision ◽

New Phenomena ◽

The Relationship

In the field of tension between globalization and localization, a set of new phenomena is emerging showing that society is not simply a social environment of self and identity but works in their deepest regions: self-radicalization, self-government, self-cure, self-nationalization, self-internationalization, and even self-marriage. The consequence is that the self is faced with an unprecedented density of self-parts, called I-positions in this theory. In the field of tension between boundary-crossing developments in the world and the search for an identity in a local niche, a self emerges that is characterized by a great variety of contradicting and heterogeneous I-positions and by large and unexpected jumps between different positions as the result of rapid and unexpected changes in the world. The chapter argues that such developments require a new vision of the relationship between self and society.

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Minimal distributions in a stochastic partial ordering and bounds for Gaussian processes

Journal of Applied Probability ◽

10.1017/s0021900200023780 ◽

1983 ◽

Vol 20 (03) ◽

pp. 529-536

Author(s):

W. J. R. Eplett

Keyword(s):

Gaussian Process ◽

Gaussian Processes ◽

Partial Ordering ◽

Boundary Crossing ◽

Conditional Probabilities ◽

Life Distribution ◽

Life Distributions ◽

Bounded Below ◽

Crossing Probabilities

A natural requirement to impose upon the life distribution of a component is that after inspection at some randomly chosen time to check whether it is still functioning, its life distribution from the time of checking should be bounded below by some specified distribution which may be defined by external considerations. Furthermore, the life distribution should ideally be minimal in the partial ordering obtained from the conditional probabilities. We prove that these specifications provide an apparently new characterization of the DFRA class of life distributions with a corresponding result for IFRA distributions. These results may be transferred, using Slepian's lemma, to obtain bounds for the boundary crossing probabilities of a stationary Gaussian process.

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How (not) to cross a boundary: Crosslinguistic influence in simultaneous bilingual children's event construal

Bilingualism Language and Cognition ◽

10.1017/s1366728921000298 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-13

Author(s):

Helen Engemann

Keyword(s):

Production Process ◽

Age Groups ◽

Boundary Crossing ◽

Bilingual Children ◽

Activation Patterns ◽

Motion Event ◽

Co Activation ◽

Crosslinguistic Influence ◽

Event Construal ◽

Two Age Groups

Abstract Simultaneous bilingual children sometimes display crosslinguistic influence (CLI), widely attested in the domain of morphosyntax. It remains less clear whether CLI affects bilinguals’ event construal, what motivates its occurrence and directionality, and how developmentally persistent it is. The present study tested predictions generated by the structural overlap hypothesis and the co-activation account in the motion event domain. 96 English–French bilingual children of two age groups and 96 age-matched monolingual English and French controls were asked to describe animated videos displaying voluntary motion events. Semantic encoding in main verbs showed bidirectional CLI. Unidirectional CLI affected French path encoding in the verbal periphery and was predicted by the presence of boundary-crossing, despite the absence of structural overlap. Furthermore, CLI increased developmentally in the French data. It is argued that these findings reflect highly dynamic co-activation patterns sensitive to the requirements of the task and to language-specific challenges in the online production process.

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