Netherlands
Wageningen University and Research Centre is a well-known life science university with a strong focus on food and nutrition security and the sustainable use of land and water. Within Wageningen UR the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development (held by Prof Wals, lead researcher) is an inter-university Chair working across the different science groups on researching and advancing community-engaged research and transformative learning in so-called hybrid learning configurations with multiple-actors representing education, research, civic society, business and industry and governance. The Chair oversees PhD work in Ghana, Uganda, South Africa, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, Columbia, Germany and The Netherlands. Prof Wals is widely published in this area.
Main roles and responsibilities: Conceptual and theoretical leadership and development; research school development; case study development; potential policy contributions. Support for Columbian case and local TKN.
Main roles and responsibilities: Conceptual and theoretical leadership and development; research school development; case study development; potential policy contributions. Support for Columbian case and local TKN.
Prof. Arjen E.J. Wals is a professor and UNESCO chair in social learning and sustainable development at Wageningen University in The Netherlands. He also is an Adjunct Faculty member of Cornell’s Department of Natural Resources and a Visiting Professor at Gothenburg University in Sweden. A central question in his work is how to create conditions that support new forms of learning that take full advantage of the diversity, creativity and resourcefulness that is all around us, but so far remains largely untapped in our search for a world that is more sustainable than the one currently in prospect. He maintains a blog at: www.transformativelearning.nl.
He has (co)authored over 200 articles and chapters in books on community problem-solving, sustainability education, transdisciplinary research, social learning and system transformation. Popular books include: Social Learning towards a Sustainable World (2007) & Learning for Sustainability in Times of Accelerating Change (2012). He is co-editor of the AERA/Routledge International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education. He recently co-authored a paper in Science (2014) on linking environmental and science education and citizen science. |