Learning history in an open system: Creating histories for sustainable futures

Management Learning

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 44-66

  Gearty, Margaret R ^a   Bradbury Huang, Hilary ^b   Reason, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BATH   (United Kingdom)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Action research; arts based learning; climate change; learning history; narrative; open system learning; storytelling; sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922269194     PISSN: 13505076     EISSN: 14617307     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350507613501735     Document Type: Article

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