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30 SES 12 B, Scaling ESD: Inclusion and exclusion when introducing ESD activities in diverse contexts Part 1
Symposium to be continued in 30 SES 13
Contribution
Scaling understood as the question of how to introduce an educational activity in a new context includes both sharing what we consider successful and how to pick up important elements from the achievements of others. Recently, the confinement of implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to best practice, good examples and piloting has been diversified to include a conceptualisation of scaling of ESD (Coburn 2003; Clarke and Dede 2009; Looi and Teh 2015). However, to date this diversification of ways of approaching implementation of ESD has mainly been taken up in policy circles (UNESCO 2014). Hence, a scholarly critique about scaling, and how it relates to issues of inclusion and exclusion in ESD remains to be developed. This symposium explores the affordances and constraints of taking ESD to scale. It invites participants to reflect upon scaling up, out, and deep, as an expansive learning process in which recontextualization of so-called “scaling objects” is key. The purpose of the symposium is to offer a number of critical scholarly perspectives from different geographical areas about scaling of ESD. This includes presenting empirical research results as well as different theoretical and methodological approaches to how the migration of different scaling objects (methods, models, value sets, etc.) may be executed and conceptualized in the policy and practice nexus. The symposium invites the participants to engage in critical discussions about scaling and approaches to enhance our understanding of implementation processes with regards to global policies in diverse contexts and on different levels in formal and informal ESD settings.
The symposium showcases multiple theoretical approaches to scaling of ESD including learning theories inspired by pragmatist philosophy (Dewey 1938; Dewey and Bentley 1949) and post-Vygotskijan theories (Engestrom 1987; 2016) as well as social justice theories (Sen 1989; Alkire 2002; Nussbaum 2003; Kronlid 2014). Methodologically, different approaches to studying scaling of ESD are presented, such as case studies, retrospective assessments, participatory research, philosophical analyses, and interdisciplinary ethics analysis.
The symposium engages in a shared discussion about what, who, where, when, and why ESD activities are introduced in diverse contexts and levels, i.e. in scaling. Questions that will be discussed include:
- How can the scaling of ESD activities be approached to take account of the valued beings and doings of people and places?
- What is characteristic of a scaling concept that of ESD activities escape the aid-trap of critical reliance on external support when such support and engagement shift its focus?
- How can ESE research take on theoretical understandings and concepts that are adapted to the activities of scaling ESD rather than relying on imported concepts and explanations from other subjects and research areas, such as economic theory, organisational theory, innovation theory?
- What are the implications for ESE-research if we understand scaling-as-learning?
- How can ESD policy and activities be transformed as a result of scaling processes?
- How can empirical and theorizing analyses enrich one another and the implementation of a research-based scaling of ESD?
The symposium brings theoretical and methodological perspectives of scaling into conversation with empirical studies of ESD-activities and how this may enrich the UNESCO Global Action Programme (GAP) (UNESCO 2014), especially in light of its emerging concept of ’scaling-up’ and how global ESD policy is and can be put into practice across the diverse contextual conditions of our planet.
References
Alkire, S. 2002. Valuing freedoms: Sen’s capability approach and poverty reduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Clarke, J., and C. Dede. 2009. “Design for Scalability: A Case Study of the River City Curriculum.” Journal of Science Education and Technology 18 (4): 353–365. doi:10.1007/s10956-009-9156-4. Coburn, C. E. 2003. “Rethinking Scale: Moving beyond Numbers to Deep and Lasting Change.” Educational Researcher 32 (6): 3–12. doi:10.3102/0013189X032006003. Dewey, J. 1938. Experience and Education. New York: Kappa Delta Pi. Dewey, J., and A. F. Bentley. 1949. Knowing and the known. Boston: Beacon Press. Engestrom, Y. 1987. Learning by expanding: an activity-theoretical approach to developmental research. Helsinki: Orienta-konsultit. Engestrom, Y. 2016. Studies in expansive learning: learning what is not yet there. New York: Cambridge University Press. Kronlid, D. O. 2014. Climate Change Adaptation and Human Capabilities. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian. Looi, C.-K., & Teh, L. W. (2015). Scaling Educational Innovations. Singapore: Springer Singapore. Nussbaum, M. 2003. Capabilities as fundamental entitlements: Sen and social justice. Feminist Economics. Abingdon: Taylor and Francis. UNESCO. 2014. UNESCO Roadmap for Implementing the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development. Accessed 27 June 2017.
Programme by Network 2019
00. Central Events (Keynotes, EERA-Panel, EERJ Round Table, Invited Sessions)
Network 1. Continuing Professional Development: Learning for Individuals, Leaders, and Organisations
Network 2. Vocational Education and Training (VETNET)
Network 3. Curriculum Innovation
Network 4. Inclusive Education
Network 5. Children and Youth at Risk and Urban Education
Network 6. Open Learning: Media, Environments and Cultures
Network 7. Social Justice and Intercultural Education
Network 8. Research on Health Education
Network 9. Assessment, Evaluation, Testing and Measurement
Network 10. Teacher Education Research
Network 11. Educational Effectiveness and Quality Assurance
Network 12. LISnet - Library and Information Science Network
Network 13. Philosophy of Education
Network 14. Communities, Families and Schooling in Educational Research
Network 15. Research Partnerships in Education
Network 16. ICT in Education and Training
Network 17. Histories of Education
Network 18. Research in Sport Pedagogy
Network 19. Ethnography
Network 20. Research in Innovative Intercultural Learning Environments
Network 22. Research in Higher Education
Network 23. Policy Studies and Politics of Education
Network 24. Mathematics Education Research
Network 25. Research on Children's Rights in Education
Network 26. Educational Leadership
Network 27. Didactics – Learning and Teaching
Network 28. Sociologies of Education
Network 29. Reserach on Arts Education
Network 30. Research on Environmental und Sustainability Education
Network 31. Research on Language and Education (LEd)
Network 32. Organizational Education
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