Achieving transformative sustainability learning: engaging head, hands and heart

Purpose The current UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development echoes many scholars' calls to re‐envision education for sustainability. Short of a complete overhaul of education, the paper seeks to propose learning objectives that can be integrated across existing curricula. These learning objectives are organized by head, hands and heart – balancing cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains. University programs and courses meeting these learning objectives exhibit an emergent property here termed transformative sustainability learning (TSL). Design/methodology/approach Theoretically, TSL grew from traditions of sustainability education and transformative education. Practically, TSL emerged from…

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  McGill University
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  European Foundation for the Study of Diabetes