The Sustainability Tour Effect: A Case for Tours as an Essential Component of Educating for Sustainability

Autor/inn/en	Gillard, Spring; VanWynsberghe, Rob
Titel	The Sustainability Tour Effect: A Case for Tours as an Essential Component of Educating for Sustainability
Quelle	In: Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 33 (2021) 1, S.51-68 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1925-993X
Schlagwörter	Sustainable Development; Community Development; Environmental Education; Professional Continuing Education; Tourism; Educational Certificates; Informal Education; Participant Satisfaction; Program Effectiveness; Transformative Learning; Context Effect; Transfer of Training; Foreign Countries; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Berufsfeldbezogener Unterricht; Weiterbildung; Tourismus; Bildungsabschluss; Schulzeugnis; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Pädagogische Transformation; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Ausland; Kanada
Abstract	This research paper is based on a broader exploratory case study of a sustainability tour that the authors undertook. The larger study explored "the concept of learning application through the case of a sustainability tour" (Gillard, 2016, p. 226 ). The tour was part of a certificate program for sustainable community development offered to mid-career professionals through a continuing education unit at a large Canadian academic institution. Employing qualitative methods, the authors conducted semi-structured interviews, then analyzed the data, including course documents, to garner participants' perceptions of what they learned "on tour" as well as how their learning had subsequently been applied. The study also identified salient features of the tour and the ways in which the tour format (or other contextual factors) may have inhibited learning and its subsequent application. This research paper presents some relevant findings, practical implications, and lessons learned regarding the sustainability tour pedagogy. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Mount Saint Vincent University. e-mail: cjsaerceea@gmail.com; Web site: https://cjsae.library.dal.ca/index.php/cjsae
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01