Supporting students to become agents of change: Introducing and evaluating the Transition Cycle approach to teaching transformative skills

IF 3 3区 管理学 Q1 ECONOMICS
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Human societies are dealing with urgent and daunting societal transition challenges, such as those posed by climate change, inequality, pandemics, and digitalization. In all these cases, we know that they must fundamentally change the way they do and think about things, and urgently so, but do not know how. Uncertainty about the direction of change and resistance to change are ubiquitous. Future generations must be equipped with capabilities for dealing with these challenges. However, there is an apparent mismatch between the skills currently taught and the skills needed to address complexity, uncertainty, and resistance. Using relevant existing frameworks and experiences we created and taught a course focusing on fostering these skills. For this purpose we developed the Transition Cycle, an original educational approach in which students work on a societal transition challenge in four distinct but related phases: imagine, connect, act, and assess. In this paper, we introduce and evaluate the Transition Cycle and its underlying concepts, basic components, implementation in the course, and learning outcomes. We conclude by reviewing lessons learned and raising questions for future research and experimentation.

支持学生成为变革的推动者:介绍和评估转型技能教学的 "过渡周期 "方法
人类社会正在应对紧迫而严峻的社会转型挑战,例如气候变化、不平等、流行病和数字化带来的挑战。在所有这些情况下,我们都知道他们必须从根本上改变做事和思考问题的方式,而且刻不容缓,但却不知道如何改变。变革方向的不确定性和变革阻力无处不在。后代必须具备应对这些挑战的能力。然而,目前教授的技能与应对复杂性、不确定性和阻力所需的技能之间存在明显的不匹配。利用现有的相关框架和经验,我们创建并教授了一门以培养这些技能为重点的课程。为此,我们开发了 "过渡周期",这是一种独创的教育方法,让学生在想象、联系、行动和评估这四个不同但又相关的阶段中应对社会转型的挑战。在本文中,我们将介绍并评估 "过渡周期 "及其基本概念、基本组成部分、在课程中的实施以及学习成果。最后,我们将总结经验教训,并提出未来研究和实验的问题。
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Futures
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期刊介绍: Futures is an international, refereed, multidisciplinary journal concerned with medium and long-term futures of cultures and societies, science and technology, economics and politics, environment and the planet and individuals and humanity. Covering methods and practices of futures studies, the journal seeks to examine possible and alternative futures of all human endeavours. Futures seeks to promote divergent and pluralistic visions, ideas and opinions about the future. The editors do not necessarily agree with the views expressed in the pages of Futures
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