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Literature on Social learning

  • Alrøe, H. F. (2000): Science as systems learning: Some reflections on the cognitive and communicational aspects of science. Cybernetics and Human Knowing vol. 7, no. 4: 57-78.
  • Andrew Whitworth (2003) Communicative rationality and decision making in environmental organizations, Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change, Volume 24, 2003, pp. 123-153.
  • Argyris, C. (1982), Reasoning, Learning and Action: Individual and Organizational, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco.
  • Arjen E.J. Wals Ed. (2007) Social learning towards a sustainable world. Principles, perspectives, and praxis, Wageningen Academic Publishers.
  • Bawden, R. (1995): Systemic development – a learning approach to change. Sydney, University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury, Centre for systemic Development. Occasional Paper 1: 71.
  • Bawden, R. (2000): Valuing the epistemic in the search for betterment – the nature and role of critical learning systems. Cybernetics & Human Knowing vol. 7 no. 4: 5-25.
  • Beck, Ulrick (1992) Risk society, London, Sage.
  • Fisher, Frank (2000) Citizens, Experts and the Environment. The politics of local knowledge. Duke University Press, Durham and London.
  • Fred Luks and Bernd Siebenhüner (2007) Transdisciplinarity for social learning? The contribution of the German socio-ecological research initiative to sustainability governance, Ecological Economics, Volume 63, Issues 2-3, 1 August 2007, Pages 418-426.
  • Freire, Paulo (1988) Cultural Action for Freedom, Harvard Educational review.
  • Gibbons, M. (2000) Mode 2 society and the emergence of context-sensitive science, Science and Public Policy, Volume 27, Number 3, 1 June 2000 , pp. 159-163(5).
  • Guido Buenstorf and Christian Cordes (2008) Can sustainable consumption be learned? A model of cultural evolution, Ecological Economics, Available online, retrieved on 10 March 2008, https://papers.econ.mpg.de/evo/discussionpapers/2007-06.pdf.
  • Habermas, Juergen (1984) The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 1 Reason and the Rationalization of Society. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Habermas, Juergen (1987) The Theory of Communicative Action: Volume 2, System and Lifeworld. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • Habermas, Juergen (1979) Communication and the Evolution of Society. Boston: Beacon Press.
  • High,Chris; Nemes, Gusztáv (2007) Social Learning in LEADER: Exogenous, Endogenous and Hybrid Evaluation in Rural Development, Sociologia Ruralis, Volume 47, Number 2, April 2007, pp. 103-119 (17).
  • Jørgensen, Henning (2001): Consensus, cooperation, and conflict – the Policy Making Process in Denmark. London: Edward Elgar.
  • Kroma, Margaret (2007) Organic Farmer Networks: Facilitating Learning and Innovation for Sustainable Agriculture, Journal of Sustainable Agriculture, Volume 28, Number 4, 5 October 2006 , pp. 5-28(24).
  • Lave, Jean and Wenger, Etienne (1991) Situated learning. Legitimate peripheral participation, Cambridge University Press.
  • Mezirow, J. (2000). Learning as transformation: Critical perspectives on a theory in progress. San Francisco: Jossey Bass.
  • Miles, Steven (2001) Social theory in the real world, London, Sage.
  • Patricia Fitzpatrick and A. John Sinclair (2003) Learning through public involvement in environmental assessment hearings, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 67, Issue 2, February 2003, Pages 161-174.
  • Sinclair, A.J., Diduck, A.P., Fitzpatrick, P.J. (2008) Conceptualizing learning for sustainability through environmental assessment: critical reflections on 15 years of research. Environmental Impact Assessment Review. In Print doi:10.1016/j.wiair.2007.11.001.
  • Stevenson, T. (2002) Anticipatory action learning: conversations about the future, Futures, Volume 34, Issue 5, June 2002, pp. 417-425.
  • Stirling, A. (2006). From Science and Society to Science in Society: Towards A Framework for ‘Co-Operative Research’ Report of a European Commission Workshop Governance and Scientific Advice Unit of DG RTD, Directorate C2 Directorate General Research and Technology Development, Brussels, available on line at http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/pdf/goverscience_final_repo....
  • Webler, T., H. Kastenholz and O. Renn, (1995) Public participation in impact assessment: a social learning perspective, Environmental Impact Assessment Review 15 (1995), pp. 443–463.
  • Wengler, Etienne (1998) Communities of Practice, Learning, meaning and identity, Cambridge University Press.
  • Wildemeersch, Danny, Jansen, Theo, Vandenabeele Joke, Jans, Marc (1998) Social learning: a new perspective on learning in participatory systems, Studies in Continuing Education, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 251-265.
  • Wilsdon, James & Willis, Rebeca (2004) See-Through science, Why public engagement needs to move upstream, at http://www.demos.co.uk/files/Seethroughsciencefinal.pdf.