: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