Education for Climate Change Adaptation - Enhancing the Contemporary Relevance of Planning Education for a Range of Wicked Problems

J Davidson; Anna Lyth

doi:10.11120/jebe.2012.07020063

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Education for Climate Change Adaptation - Enhancing the Contemporary Relevance of Planning Education for a Range of Wicked Problems

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Education for Climate Change Adaptation - Enhancing the Contemporary Relevance of Planning Education for a Range of Wicked Problems

J Davidson and Anna Lyth

Journal for Education in the Built Environment, Vol.7(2), pp.62-83

2012

DOI: https://doi.org/10.11120/jebe.2012.07020063

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Abstract

Built Environment and Design

Education

climate change adaptation

climate change education

planning education

planning pedagogy

planning skills

Planning education involves engaging students in many 'wicked' planning problems of which climate change is a particularly testing example. This paper demonstrates that by thinking about climate change problems for urban and regional places, educators are reminded about the importance of some more generic but essential capabilities required of planners in dealing with a range of challenging problems. Based on the experience of reviewing and 'renovating' the University of Tasmania's planning programme to embed education for climate change adaptation, this paper: (i) reflects on such a process; (ii) describes the application of specific pedagogical values and approaches to the education of planners for climate change adaptation in the university's planning programme; and (iii) demonstrates how their application can facilitate improvement in education for other core planning capabilities. Among the pedagogical approaches embraced are: problem-based learning, adaptive learning and self-reflection, networked learning, critical thinking, linkage of theory and practice, and adaptation planning skills. Ultimately, the application of these approaches has not only addressed the need to incorporate education for climate change adaptation, but has also improved the capacity of the planning course to develop competencies relevant to planning for a range of challenging contemporary problems.

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Title: Education for Climate Change Adaptation - Enhancing the Contemporary Relevance of Planning Education for a Range of Wicked Problems
Authors: J Davidson (Author) - University of Tasmania
Anna Lyth (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Publication details: Journal for Education in the Built Environment, Vol.7(2), pp.62-83
Publisher: Centre for Education in the Built Environment
Date published: 2012
DOI: 10.11120/jebe.2012.07020063
ISSN: 1747-4205
Organisation Unit: University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99448967202621
Output Type: Journal article

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