If universities are to be hotbeds of transformative thinking towards a sustainable society with enriching quality of life for all, then we have to move beyond the expert-centered production and distribution model of chalk and talk teaching.
For me, no-one teaches, but we all learn. The BIG question is what do we do with our learning and is the social learning necessary for transferring our way of life from the addiction of the 'good times' obsession to the healthy 'good life' going to come from competitive external evaluation, or from self-assessed meaningful learning?
In my 20 years in universities, we haven't made a lot of progress because we still treat sustainability as a separate subject. We need much greater clarity about the necessary purpose for university education. It cannot be simply to train/condition young people to enter the workforce for business-as-usual only more, bigger, and faster!!
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