Social learning for collective action on climate change презентация

Blane Harvey, International Development Research Centre

SL in theory and practice
Where next?

preferences and values;
an unclear sense of all consequences and/or cumulative impact of collective action;
fluid, heterogeneous, pluralist participation in problem definition and solving

Turnpenny et al (2009)

“Not only must science concede some of its governance to wider society, it must also concede some ground to other ways of knowing. (Hulme 2009: 81)

is seen as an important avenue for responding.

sustain [...] adaptive and anticipatory learning in the face of complex risks and uncertainties.” Tschakert & Dietrich 2010

And yet

We recognise the paramount importance of learning in addressing complex environmental challenges....

“deficit models”

Banking models

Knowledge hierarchies

perspectives to learn together and form an understanding of a shared challenge.

It involves taking learning and behaviour change beyond the individual to networks and systems. Through an iterative process of working and reflecting together new shared ways of knowing emerge that lead to changes in practice.

See Reed et al. 2010 “What is Social Learning?”

learning (Argyris and Schon, Wenger)
Transformative learning (Mezirow)
Emancipatory learning (Freire)
Participation?
As performance? Governance? Collective action? Many flavours of SL.

al 2013

of views always a good thing?
Recognition of problem w/o power to change leads to frustration
Challenge of entrenched marginalisation
Sustainability of change?
Scale and institutionalisation major challenges
Evidence of impact and outcomes?
How to evaluate them?

See also Muro & Jeffrey 2008

but making that leap forward into practicing the principles of good social learning and overturning the more top-down models of knowledge creation and information delivery needs more concrete evidence.

Transforming institutions
Transforming research

in the context of climate change. Hypothesis B: Social learning processes lead to improved development outcomes/results in the context of climate change.