Researcher(s):
Micah Leinbach
ENVS course(s): 400 Initiated: September 2013 Completed: May 2014 Go to project site
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In this project I develop a framework for understanding “Social Learning Systems” as an educational pedagogy for environmental educators, resource managers, and others. Originally pioneered in natural resource management, I study how social learning has pervaded other fields and integrate research from multiple disciplines to argue for a framework that effectively describes core dimensions of social learning as it appears in a variety of contexts. In response to critics who suggest that educators do not fully understand what makes social learning systems effective, I propose a means of assessing key aspects of these systems within the framework for social learning I propose. This assessment mechanism and theoretical approach to social learning offers a viable means of by which design principles and theory of social learning systems can be improved, both in environmental problem solving and education writ-large.