Educating for a Sustainable World

Intellectual, Scientific, and Educational Influences on Sustainability Research - Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7302-9.ch006 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 121-137

Author(s):

Asaf Zohar ◽

David R. Newhouse

Keyword(s):

Common Ground ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Environmental Responsibility ◽

Student Interest ◽

Sustainable Future ◽

Working Together ◽

Different Cultures ◽

Unique Context

Educating for a sustainable future and learning to live within our planetary limits is the most pressing challenge of our times. In this chapter, the authors present an emerging model of transcultural education that brings together Indigenous and western knowledges. This approach aims to engage learners from different cultures and knowledge traditions with the purpose of guiding them through ideas and processes of imagining, listening, speaking, and working together in a way that respects differences, acknowledges common ground, and seeks to co-create new knowledges. Bringing together Indigenous and Western knowledges in this manner creates a unique context that can potentially build the mindsets, skills, and dispositions that are needed for living and managing sustainably. A pedagogy grounded in this approach can potentially promote student interest and engagement across cultural and social divides, foster successful learning about bridging social inequalities, and cultivate an ethos of social, cultural, and environmental responsibility.

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Watching Birds and People

Fieldwork in Religion ◽

10.1558/fiel2008v2i2.160 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 160-176

Author(s):

Mikael Rothstein

Keyword(s):

Common Ground ◽

Field Work ◽

Personal Knowledge ◽

Mutual Understanding ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

Good Working ◽

Anthropological Field Work ◽

Different Cultures ◽

The Way

This article explores ornithology as a hidden resource in anthropological field work. Relating experiences among the Penan forest nomads of Sarawak, Borneo, the author describes how his personal knowledge of bird life paved the way for good working relations, and even friendship, with the Penan. Representing two very different cultures simple communication between the scholar on duty and the Penan community was difficult indeed, but the birds provided a common ground that enabled the two parties to exchange experiences, knowledge and skills. In certain ways the author's fieldwork-based project relates to the Penan’s religious interpretation of birds, but the article is primarily concerned with the fact that a mutual understanding was created from this common ground, and that our thoughts on fieldwork preparations may be taken further by such experiences.

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Constructive Friction Creates A Third Space for Art/Science Collaborations

10.31235/osf.io/ms3gq ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

aaron ellison ◽

David Buckley Borden

Keyword(s):

Common Ground ◽

Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽

Third Space ◽

Joint Work ◽

New Ways Of Working ◽

Shared Language ◽

Working Together ◽

New Space ◽

Open Dialogue ◽

The Creation

Successful interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists is not about discovering “common ground,” but about deliberately creating a new space for collaboration. This novel space includes physical, virtual, and intellectual elements brought together through creation of a shared language and using it in open dialogue. Communication not only shapes the collaboration and leads to the creation of joint work, but also engenders new ways of working together and new levels of understanding. The co-authors interrogate a series of their art/science collaborations to identify essential, general principles for synergistic communication and productive collaborations between artists and scientists.

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Eden and Fuchs: working together for a sustainable future

Industrial Lubrication and Tribology ◽

10.1108/ilt.2005.01857cab.001 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 57 (3) ◽

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Future ◽

Working Together

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Promoting common ground building in L2 cross-cultural conversations

10.14705/rpnet.2021.54.1336 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 220-225

Author(s):

Maryam Sadat Mirzaei ◽

Kourosh Meshgi ◽

Toyoaki Nishida

Keyword(s):

Cultural Awareness ◽

Common Ground ◽

Communication Strategies ◽

Cross Cultural ◽

Cultural Backgrounds ◽

Teaching Culture ◽

Points Of View ◽

Immersive Environment ◽

Optimal Approach ◽

Different Cultures

Teaching culture out of context may not be the optimal approach, yet it could be achieved by immersive technologies. This study uses an immersive theme-based environment and focuses on cross-cultural interactions between learners of different cultures in goal-oriented scenarios. We collected interactions among learners with different cultural backgrounds and annotated common ground formation and conversation breakdowns in those interactions. Next, we recreated the scenarios in a 3D immersive environment using an in-house situation creation toolkit to enable experiencing the situation by using choices to navigate the conversation and observing the consequences. In case the conversation derails, we provide timely scaffolding by offering appropriate communication strategies to rebuild common ground. Learners can be the actors of the scenarios but can also be the observers by switching between roles and points of view. Preliminary experiments with 20 L2 learners of English from different cultures showed that practicing with immersive conversational game-play is effective for raising cultural awareness and learning to choose appropriate strategies for smooth interactions.

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Finding Common Ground: The Need for Cooperation and Collaboration in the Spanish Natural Wine Industry

Wine Business Case Research Journal ◽

10.26813/wbcrj/2019.03.01/finding ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 65-93

Author(s):

Rosana Fuentes Fernández

Keyword(s):

Common Ground ◽

Wine Industry ◽

Cooperative Relationships ◽

Working Together ◽

Wine Sector ◽

Common Goals ◽

Comparative Case Studies ◽

To Come ◽

Entrepreneurial Activities ◽

And Control

In fall 2018 and late spring 2019, five small natural wine producers in Spain pondered the potential for cooperation and collaboration in their segment of the wine industry. As these niche producers shared their common goals and challenges, they debated how to come to a consensus about pooling resources and working together to educate trade customers as well as the prospective natural wine consumer. Providing an overview of the Spanish wine industry and the natural wine segment, this applied research paper uses comparative case studies to explore the potential of incorporating cooperative relationships that could help these producers grow their businesses, share farming and wine-making techniques, and educate consumers about natural wines. Similar to previous cooperative relationships undertaken in other wine-producing regions, co-opetition might not only perform branding and collaborative marketing and reward entrepreneurial activities in Spain’s natural wine sector, but also carry some downsides in terms of autonomy and control over decision-making.

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Finding a Common Ground: Therapist Responsiveness to Male Clients Who Have Acted Violently Against Their Female Partner

Journal of Interpersonal Violence ◽

10.1177/0886260519862271 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 088626051986227 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Bente Lømo ◽

Hanne Haavind ◽

Odd Arne Tjersland

Keyword(s):

Working Alliance ◽

Partner Violence ◽

Common Ground ◽

Individual Therapy ◽

Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽

Male Clients ◽

Working Together ◽

Problem Formulations ◽

Therapist Responses ◽

Interactional Patterns

Men in treatment for intimate partner violence (IPV) do often present with problem formulations that do not fit the therapeutic endeavor of personal change and may, therefore, challenge therapists in their effort to build an alliance. However, the therapist’s initial contributions are also likely to influence whether the client finds it worthwhile to become involved in a working alliance. In a qualitative study of the in-session interactions between experienced therapists and men in IPV individual therapy, we looked for variations in therapist responsiveness to the client’s initial invitations to identify whether and, eventually, how the two parties were able to reach common ground for working together. We studied therapist–client interactions in 20 therapy cases, including 10 completed cases with good outcomes and 10 dropout cases. Two sessions during the early phase of the therapy and the final session were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. The transcriptions were analyzed following the guidelines of constructivist grounded theory. The analysis revealed three interactional patterns: co-creative exploration, pull-avoid repetitions, and tiptoeing softly around, each of which was associated with a distinctive set of therapist strategies. Clients participating in the co-creative pattern appeared to experience the most successful treatment. Our findings suggest that a model of therapist responses to client invitations is valuable for the conceptualization of the therapeutic alliance during the early sessions of psychotherapy. The findings also highlight the importance of clarifying and expanding upon the client’s personal experience with his abuse to form a viable working alliance.

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Biodiversity and Integrated Pest Management: Working together for a Sustainable Future

Crop Protection ◽

10.1016/j.cropro.2013.12.043 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 61 ◽

pp. 102-103

Author(s):

R. Muniappan ◽

Program Director ◽

E.A. Heinrichs

Keyword(s):

Integrated Pest Management ◽

Pest Management ◽

Sustainable Future ◽

Working Together

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Helsekulturer” Hvordan kan sykepleiestudenter øke sin kulturkompetanse?

Nordisk tidsskrift for helseforskning ◽

10.7557/14.2569 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 124

Author(s):

Inger- Lise Magnussen

Keyword(s):

High School ◽

Nursing Students ◽

Learning Community ◽

Font Size ◽

Multicultural Society ◽

Mutual Learning ◽

Multilingual Students ◽

Working Together ◽

Different Cultures ◽

Municipal Health

Abstract”Health cultures”How can nursing students improve their knowledge about different cultures?A learning project for nursing students and multilingual students in high school.Norway is a multicultural society, and the need for knowledge about different cultures will be present in several professions, including nursing. During practice, nursing students will most probably meet immigrants, either as a colleague or a patient. Do students have enough knowledge about their cultural background, and how can this knowledge be acquired? Is it possible to create "cultural meetings" when they are in practice, so nursing students can get to know different cultures during their education? Working together with multilingual students in high school can be a way to create cultural meetings. Such cooperation can provide mutual learning, community and integration. The learning project "Health Cultures" is based on cultural meetings and uses project as learning method. The project is conducted while students are in practice in municipal health services.

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DEVELOPING SPEAKING SECTION OF BUSINESS ENGLISH MATERIALS TO TEACH CULTURE IN INTEGRATED WAY

JOALL (Journal of Applied Linguistics and Literature) ◽

10.33369/joall.v6i1.11608 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 162-176

Author(s):

Yasmin Farani ◽

Karlina Karadila Yustisia

Keyword(s):

Basic Knowledge ◽

Business English ◽

Business Skills ◽

Secondary Instrument ◽

Working Together ◽

Compulsory Subject ◽

English Program ◽

Different Cultures ◽

The Given ◽

English Culture

Teaching English Business skills does not merely teach the students to have administration and communication skills needed at the workplace for they will probably encounter and experience working together with people from different cultures and backgrounds as well. To minimize misunderstanding on those intercultural differences, they are expected not only to learn Business English skills but also gain basic knowledge of English culture through the course. This R&D research is a descriptive qualitative research which is intended to develop the Speaking Section of the existing teaching materials of Business English skills. Under the name of ESP I subject, they are taught to the 4th-semester students of Diploma Three in English Program of University of Merdeka Malang as a compulsory subject. In this study, the primary instruments are the researchers themselves and the preliminary questionnaires used serve as the secondary instrument. All the analyzed data are in the form of printed data (questionnaire’s results) and chosen videos taken from YouTube. The expected final results are in the form of written handouts consist of texts and links of selected videos appropriately related to the given topics. It is hoped that they are useful for the students as an alternative method to learn culture in an integrated way.

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