The dynamics of change
The course explores the meaning of change in contemporary societies, analyzing how it interacts with the environment, policies, and culture from the perspective of sustainable development. It provides tools to understand the social variables at play and design informed educational interventions, amid digital transition, uncertainty, order, and chaos in different social contexts.
The course aims to explore the concept of change associated with the
dimension of social experience. Change interacts with the environment both in terms of influence—whether positive or negative—and in terms of political, economic, and cultural choices within the perspective of sustainable development.
To evaluate change, it is necessary to understand what change actually means.
Those who work or will work in the field of environmental education, for example, must know which social variables are at play. The added value of such expertise lies in the ability to plan intervention strategies that are mindful of the dynamics, actors, and emerging issues in various social contexts, at both macro and micro levels.
Course structure
- The concept of change
- The lesson of the West
- A society of uncertainty?
- Environment and change
- The digital transition
- Between order and chaos: which side to take
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