:Analogies for Sustainable Development/Analogies by Global ESD Core Competencies
Knowledge Building edit
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
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of identifying the role of values and emotions in individual and social reasoning.
Multilevel Cooperation edit
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
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