A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems
This paper presents a conceptual tool, or heuristic, for describing the epistemological context for social learning within complex social–ecological systems. The heuristic integrates several definitions of social learning that emphasize the importance of critical reflection and its collaborative nat...
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ftjecolog:oai:.www.ecologyandsociety.org:article/4255 2023-05-15T16:15:28+02:00 A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems McCarthy, Daniel D. P. Crandall, Debbe D. Whitelaw, Graham S. General, Zachariah Tsuji, Leonard J. S. 2011-09-13 text/html application/pdf http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol16/iss3/art18/ en eng Resilience Alliance Ecology and Society; Vol. 16, No. 3 (2011) adaptive capacity; critical systems thinking; First Nations; social learning Peer-Reviewed Reports 2011 ftjecolog 2019-04-09T11:22:47Z This paper presents a conceptual tool, or heuristic, for describing the epistemological context for social learning within complex social–ecological systems. The heuristic integrates several definitions of social learning that emphasize the importance of critical reflection and its collaborative nature and that it is rooted in and oriented toward practice through social interactions. The conceptual tool is useful in identifying and conceptually mapping different perspectives based on types of learning described along three dimensions: typology of knowledge; different levels of critical reflection; and scale. The heuristic was originally developed in the context of an environmental planning process in southern Ontario, Canada, and is applied to identifying barriers and bridges to social learning in the case of flood damage reduction in a remote First Nations community in northern Ontario, Canada. Other/Unknown Material First Nations Unknown Canada |
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adaptive capacity; critical systems thinking; First Nations; social learning McCarthy, Daniel D. P. Crandall, Debbe D. Whitelaw, Graham S. General, Zachariah Tsuji, Leonard J. S. A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems |
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This paper presents a conceptual tool, or heuristic, for describing the epistemological context for social learning within complex social–ecological systems. The heuristic integrates several definitions of social learning that emphasize the importance of critical reflection and its collaborative nature and that it is rooted in and oriented toward practice through social interactions. The conceptual tool is useful in identifying and conceptually mapping different perspectives based on types of learning described along three dimensions: typology of knowledge; different levels of critical reflection; and scale. The heuristic was originally developed in the context of an environmental planning process in southern Ontario, Canada, and is applied to identifying barriers and bridges to social learning in the case of flood damage reduction in a remote First Nations community in northern Ontario, Canada. |
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McCarthy, Daniel D. P. Crandall, Debbe D. Whitelaw, Graham S. General, Zachariah Tsuji, Leonard J. S. |
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McCarthy, Daniel D. P. Crandall, Debbe D. Whitelaw, Graham S. General, Zachariah Tsuji, Leonard J. S. |
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McCarthy, Daniel D. P. |
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A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems |
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A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems |
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A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems |
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A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems |
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A Critical Systems Approach to Social Learning: Building Adaptive Capacity in Social, Ecological, Epistemological (SEE) Systems |
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critical systems approach to social learning: building adaptive capacity in social, ecological, epistemological (see) systems |
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Resilience Alliance |
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First Nations |
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Ecology and Society; Vol. 16, No. 3 (2011) |
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