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Wellbeing And Lifelong Learning: A Mind Map
Outside the classroom, behavioral insights and the science of habit have been used to solve persistent social problems and benefit society. How might these insights be applied to promote self motivated lifelong learning to live sustainably? Repeated behaviours in stable contexts can become automatic habits. Habits are resistant to information-based techniques, which are the basis of classroom teaching to change behaviour, but are contextually cued. So a change in the behavioural context (e.g., location, or a local environmental disaster) weakens habit strength and can facilitate greater consideration of new behaviours. In other words, when the environment changes, we are forced to change our automatic habits of thought and action and make more deliberate decisions. A window opens in which a new behavior is more likely to be deliberately considered and adopted as a new habit, This is known as fresh start framing. The following 10 behaviors offer fresh start windows into opportunities of lifelong learning to adopt new behaviours and assemble a personal body of knowledge to live with climate change.
1 Become A Citizen Managing Change
2 Redefine Economic Growth
3 Learn To Be Inclusive
4 Link Culture With Education (currently the one with the least hits)
5 Create New Knowledge Frameworks
6 Learn About Empathy
7 Promote Education For Change
8 Apply Arts Reasoning To Explain Sustainability (currently has the most hits)
9 Oats, Peas, Beans And Barley Grow
10 Awaken the Ecologist Within
The forum is an extension of the blog, Education for Cultural Change, published by International Classrooms on Line 7/14/2020, and the Google Site, 'Education for Conservation' . It builds on the course, Culture Change: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Anthropology, organised by Joe Henrich and Dan Hruschka of Arizona State University in 2004.
Important questions set by the syllabus concern the importance of culture to human survival, such as:
Does culture really affect how we think, remember, and perceive the world?
Does it influence what we think is morally right and wrong, what causes an illness, which products we want to buy, and which god(s) to believe in?
How do individuals actually learn culture?
Who do people learn their culture from?
Why do cultures change at different rates?
Why do some technologies, beliefs and practices spread rapidly and completely while others don’t?
Why do some peoples refuse to adopt (seemingly) obviously beneficial technologies, beliefs and practices, while readily adopting seemingly harmful behaviors, beliefs and practices?
The following mind maps have been created by members of the S.K.O.M.E.R. Collective
Resources to Support Educating for Change
Lifelong Learning for Future Well Being
Conservation Management of UK Sand Dune Ecosystems
Defining a Steady State Economy