PROSUMETME : Design-based Strategies as a Driver of Education for Sustainable Development in Organizations / Caroline Paulick-Thiel

Berlin, Humboldt-Viadrina School of Governance, Masterarbeit, 2013

Based on the understanding of the Anthropocene and the related global challenges, this thesis emphasizes the idea of Sustainable Development and especially the concept of Education for Sustainable Development as a crucial step towards a direction that enables our knowledge society to use its full capacities and talents to transform our current activities into sustainable actions and thus make our world livable for future generations. The subject of this research is to understand how Education for Sustainable Development can be implemented more effectively in organizations. By exploring the concept of competence it focuses on HOW the learning process has to be designed in order to support the acquisition of (meta) competencies for a personal and societal transformation emphasizing adult education and life-long learning (LLL). Further, the potential of combining Education for Sustainable Development with designbased strategies from the emerging field of Transformation Design, building on participation, creativity and transformative change, which is explored here in a theoretical and practical way. By placing this new approach into an organizational environment through the author's own project PROSUMETIME, this research proposes how organizations can play an important role as designers of a sustainable society.