Learning for change: An educational contribution to sustainability science

Sustainability Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 103-119

  Barth, Matthias ^a   Michelsen, Gerd ^b  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Communities of practice; Competence; Education for sustainable development; Educational science; Interdisciplinarity; Learning; Social learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871929429     PISSN: 18624065     EISSN: 18624057     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11625-012-0181-5     Document Type: Article

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