<![CDATA[Learning, systems thinking and sustainability]]> http://www.bryanhopkins.co.uk EN Mon, 25 Oct 2021 14:18:00 +0100 Incomedia WebSite X5 Evo <![CDATA[Personalising our impact on climate change]]> http://www.bryanhopkins.co.uk/blog/index.php
How can we personalise climate change and our role in it? Some thoughts about the Social Cost of Carbon.
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Education for Sustainable Development proposes eight core competencies. Of these, systems thinking perhaps is the most fundamental.
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Late in 2018 I started work on a part-time PhD, using systems thinking to evaluate formal training programmes. Things did not go to plan.

By the end of 2020 I decided that spending another four years focusing on a very small aspect of training governance was not going to work for me, but thought that I could put the enormous pile of research papers that I had collected to better use by writing a book.

During those two years I had read a lot about the ideas of 'sustainable HRD' and 'critical HRD', and realised that there was very little guidance available to HRD practitioners to help them plan a strategy for learning about social and environmental sustainability for their organisations.

This seemed to be a much more interesting and worthwhile way to spend some time, so I sent my apologies to my supervisors and approached Routledge to see if they were interested in the subject. They were.

So on Friday, 1 October, 2021, three years after starting the research and with 392 days of work recorded in my timesheet I clicked the 'Send' button and off went the manuscripts.

I am not sure when the finished book will be actually published, but hopefully in mid-2022. Watch this space. Contact me for more information.
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