:Analogies for Sustainable Development/Adaptive flexibility as grass in the wind


Grasses blowing in the Wind at Tringford Reservoir - geograph.org.uk - 1419264

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Analogy Map

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Reed in the wind Adaptive flexibility
Wind Changes in the environment
Being physically flexible to bend Being behaviorally, psychologically, and/or socioculturally flexible to adapt
Not breaking Surviving, flourishing, living towards one's values

Discussion

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This analogy serves as a simple way to introduce the target concept of adaptive flexibility and resilience across contexts.

Class discussion questions: What are the paralells between the physical flexibility or rigidity of plants, and the mental or social flexibility of humans?

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