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TY - CHAP
T1 - Developing stakeholder agency in higher education sustainability initiatives
T2 - Insights from a Change Laboratory research-intervention
AU - Scahill, John
AU - Bligh, Brett
PY - 2022/4/22
Y1 - 2022/4/22
N2 - This chapter positions Education for Sustainable Development as a project of ongoing educational change, and explores how such change might take place in ways that empower stakeholders. We explore how a particular approach, the Change Laboratory, has been used as a vehicle for sustainability-related capacity building in a university in Ireland. A range of institutional stakeholders—varied in seniority, professional role and disciplinary background—came together in workshops, over several months, and co-designed several outcomes including a Campus Sustainability Statement. In the chapter, we set out the principles underpinning the Change Laboratory approach and the conception of transformative agency that underpins our understanding of its capacity building; describe the design of a local project which applied those principles to problems of sustainability; identify the core expressions of stakeholder agency that were evident as the change process unfolded; and discuss the implications for scholarship and future practice in HEIs.
AB - This chapter positions Education for Sustainable Development as a project of ongoing educational change, and explores how such change might take place in ways that empower stakeholders. We explore how a particular approach, the Change Laboratory, has been used as a vehicle for sustainability-related capacity building in a university in Ireland. A range of institutional stakeholders—varied in seniority, professional role and disciplinary background—came together in workshops, over several months, and co-designed several outcomes including a Campus Sustainability Statement. In the chapter, we set out the principles underpinning the Change Laboratory approach and the conception of transformative agency that underpins our understanding of its capacity building; describe the design of a local project which applied those principles to problems of sustainability; identify the core expressions of stakeholder agency that were evident as the change process unfolded; and discuss the implications for scholarship and future practice in HEIs.
M3 - Chapter
BT - The Wiley Handbook of Sustainability in Higher Education Learning and Teaching
A2 - Gamage, Kelum
A2 - Gunawardhana, Nanda
PB - Wiley
ER -