What is Social Learning? Resilience 2011 presentation
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What is Social learning?
• Importance
• 3 problems
• 3 key themes
• Our definition
The promise of
Social Learning
Defining...
Defining...• Early conceptions
• Emerging SE literature
Confusion
Conflation
1. Methods2. Outcomes3. Interaction
Clarifying Social Learning
• How to link cause and affect?• How to assess if social learning
has occurred?• How to evaluate?
procrastination is something ... best put off until tomorrow.
— Gerald Vaughan
So...What is
SOCIAL LEARNING?
to be considered social learning, a process must…
change in understanding
•Simple•Transformative•Really transformative!
beyond the individual
by social interactio
n
Clearer?
“A change in understanding that goes beyond the individual to be situated in wider social units or communities of practice through social interactions between actors in social networks.”
Future work• Extent of social learning• Extent participation facilitates• Refining design for social
learning• Influence on social-ecological
outcomes
Anna Evely [email protected]
University of St. Andrewsand Aberdeen Centre for Environmental Sustainability
Twitter: @AnnaEvely, @AberdeenCES, @reluuplands @lecmsr
Thanks also to:Rosalind Bryce, Anke Fischer, Nicky Geeson, Joe Holden, Colin Hunter, Steve Redpath, Louise Reid, Stephan Rist, Gudrun Schwilch, Bill Slee, and Petra Vergunst
Reed, M. S., A. C. Evely, G. Cundill, I. Fazey, J. Glass, A. Laing, J. Newig, B. Parrish, C. Prell, C. Raymond, and L. C. Stringer. 2010. What is social learning? Ecology and Society 15(4): r1. [online]