:Analogies for Sustainable Development/Analogies by Global ESD Core Competencies
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Knowledge Building[edit | edit source]
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of discovering, organizing, and testing claims of knowledge; deciding what to believe, and understanding how others decide what to believe.
- All learning as transfer of learning
- Biomimicry as analogy
- Brain as Computer, Brain as Internet
- Brain as garden
- Children as scientists
- Concepts as species
- Evolutionary process as Learning
- Knowledge as bricks
- Knowledge transfer as transfer of learning in the collective brain
- Maps as analogies
- Neural networks as telephone wires
- Neural networks as road networks
- Scientific disciplines and theories as islands in an Ivory Archipelago
- Scientific disciplines and theories as languages
- Schools as organs
- Species of thought
- System 1- System 2
- Transfer of learning as evolutionary information processing
- Working memory as holding things in your hand
Social-Emotional Reasoning[edit | edit source]
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of identifying the role of values and emotions in individual and social reasoning.
- Brain as dual mode camera
- Brain as moral tongue
- Capitalism as a Dialectic of Dynamism and Decency
- Elephant and the Rider
- Parable of the New Pastures
- Sacred circling & moral magnetism
- Tribalism as politics, as football teams
- 90% Chimp, 10% Bee, 100% Human
Multilevel Cooperation[edit | edit source]
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of cultivating cooperation towards shared values at multiple levels of social organization.
- Brain as collective action
- Brain as common pool resource
- Brain as evolutionary ecosystem
- Cancer
- Cities as organs
- Cities as (super)organisms
- Cooperation as sitting in the same boat
- Corruption as cancer
- Earth as organism (Gaia hypothesis)
- Ecosystem as organism
- Global Village
- Health as homeostasis
- Homeostasis as mental health
- Homeostasis as group design principles
- Human society as organism
- Human society as beehive
- Humans as cancer
- Insect agriculture as human agriculture
- Major transitions as a boat race
- Multilevel selection as fans on a billiard table
- Networked Complexity
- Organism as multi-cellular society
- Parable of the Commons
- Parable of the New Pastures
- Schools as organs
- Schools as superorganisms
- Selfish Gene
- Social Genome
- Universities as organs
- Universities as superorganisms
- 90% Chimp, 10% Bee, 100% Human
Collective Learning[edit | edit source]
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of learning together across ages, sociocultural differences, geographic distance, disciplinary divides and ideological disputes.
- Human society as organism
- Human society as beehive
- Innovation as emergent property
- Knowledge as bricks
- Knowledge transfer as transfer of learning in the collective brain
- Networked Complexity
- Scientific disciplines and theories as islands in an Ivory Archipelago
- Scientific disciplines and theories as languages
- Schools as organs
- Social learning as collective brain
- Social Learning as a Jazz Band
- Social Learning as bees
- Social Genome
- Species of thought
- Universities as organs
- Wikipedia as collective brain