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Complexity Literacy for a Sustainable Digital Transition: Cases and Arguments From Transdisciplinary Education Programs

Complexity Literacy for a Sustainable Digital Transition: Cases and Arguments From Transdisciplinary Education Programs
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Author(s): Gerald Steiner (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria), Ilja Steffelbauer (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria), Manfred Laubichler (Arizona State University, USA), Lukas Zenk (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria), Eva Schernhammer (Medical University of Vienna, Austria), Brenda M. Birmann (Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA & Harvard Medical School, USA), Martin Bertau (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany), Guido Caniglia (Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria), Kay Mühlmann (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria), Liliya Satalkina (University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria)and Jakob Weitzer (Medical University of Vienna, Austria)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 20
Source title: Digitalization, New Media, and Education for Sustainable Development
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Lars Keller (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Gerd Michelsen (Leuphana University, Germany), Martin Dür (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Syamsul Bachri (Universitas Negeri Malang, Indonesia)and Michaela Zint (University of Michigan, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5033-5.ch005

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Abstract

Educational measures in line with challenges related to increasing complexity need to go beyond traditional educational means and require the integration of the basic competences of systems thinking and complexity understanding. In addition, the chapter argues for a transdisciplinary approach, based on knowledge integration across disciplines and between science and practice together with supporting communication patterns and strategies. In order to train current and future generations for this kind of transition process, with the aim of making this emergent digital environment ecologically and socially sustainable, we must consequently adopt digital literacy as well as complexity understanding and systems thinking in sustainability education more consistently.

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