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Facilitating Transformation and Competence Development in Sustainable Agriculture University Education: An Experiential and Action Oriented Approach

P. Migliorini,G. Lieblein

Published 2016 in Sustainability

ABSTRACT

The need to strengthen the connection between academia and society has received increased attention over the past years. The importance of bringing university students closer to stakeholders in society as part of their learning process is high regarding sustainable agriculture, because of its applied approach. University programs based on experiential and action-oriented learning have been developed over the past decades, but more knowledge is needed about the impact of these educational activities. In a short course in sustainable agriculture at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Bra, Italy, we examined the impacts of experiential and action-oriented learning on competency development as well as transformational impacts on the students. We found that students improve on several core competences as a result of their participation in the short course, and also signs of deep transformational processes among the students.

PUBLICATION RECORD

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Venue

    Sustainability

  • Publication date

    2016-11-30

  • Fields of study

    Agricultural and Food Sciences, Environmental Science, Engineering, Education

  • Identifiers
    DOI 10.3390/SU8121243
  • External record

    Open on Semantic Scholar

  • Source metadata

    Semantic Scholar

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