Wicked Learning: Reflecting on "Learning to Be Drier"

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Autor/inn/en	Golding, Barry; Brown, Mike; Foley, Annette; Smith, Erica; Campbell, Coral; Schulz, Christine; Angwin, Jennifer; Grace, Lauri
Titel	Wicked Learning: Reflecting on "Learning to Be Drier"
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 49 (2009) 3, S.544-566 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1443-1394
Schlagwörter	Land Use; Foreign Countries; Government Role; Water; Public Policy; Rural Areas; Ecology; Conservation (Environment); Adult Learning; Case Studies; Climate; Stakeholders; Informal Education; Nonformal Education; Interviews; Adults; Coping; Risk; Access to Education; Tourism; Adjustment (to Environment); Agricultural Occupations; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bodennutzung; Ausland; Wasser; Öffentliche Ordnung; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Ökologie; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Adulte education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Klima; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Non-formal education; Non formal education; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Bewältigung; Risiko; Education; Access; Bildung; Zugang; Bildungszugang; Tourismus; Agriculture; Occupation; Landwirtschaft; Beruf; Landwirtschaftlicher Beruf; Australien
Abstract	In this final, collaborative paper in the "Learning to be drier" edition, we reflect on and draw together some of the key threads from the diverse narratives in our four site papers from across the southern Murray-Darling Basin. Our paper title, "Wicked learning", draws on a recent body literature (Rittel & Webber 1973) about messy or "wicked problems" as characterised by Dietz and Stern (1998). It picks up on our identification of the difficulty and enormity of the learning challenges being faced by communities, associated, at best, with a decade of record dry years (drought) and severely over-committed rivers. At worst, drought is occurring in combination with and as a precursor to recent, progressive drying of the Basin associated with climate change. Our research is suggestive of a need for much more learning across all segments of the adult community about "... the big picture, including the interrelationships among the full range of causal factors ..." (Australian Public Service Commission, APSC 2007: 1) underlying the presenting problem of drying. We conclude that solutions to the messy or wicked problem of drying in an interconnected Basin will lie in the social domain. This will include building a wider knowledge and acceptance of the problems and likely future risks across the Basin including all parts of communities. The problem of drying as well as its causes and solutions are multidimensional, and will involve comprehensive learning about all five key characteristics of other "wicked" policy problems identified in previous research in the environmental arena. The narratives that we have heard identify the extreme difficulty in all four sites of rational and learned responses to being drier as the problem has unfolded. All narratives about being drier that we have heard involve a recognition of a combination of the five characteristics common to wicked problems: multidimensionality, scientific uncertainty, value confect and uncertainty, mistrust as well as urgency. All narratives identify the importance of social learning: to be productive, to be efficient, to survive, to live with uncertainty, to be sustainable and to share. Combating the extent and effects of drying, causality aside, will require new forms of learning through new community, social and learning spaces, apart from and in addition to new technological and scientific learning. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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