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Critical pedagogical designs for SETS knowledge co-production: online peer- and problem-based learning by and for early career green infrastructure experts

CSS Publication Number
CSS23-15
Full Publication Date
April 3, 2023
Abstract

Despite a growing understanding of the importance of knowledge co-production for just and sustainable urban transformations, early career green infrastructure experts typically lack opportunities to practice transdisciplinary knowledge co-production approaches within their normal training and professional development. However, using online collaboration technologies combined with peer- and problem-based learning can help address this gap by putting early career green infrastructure experts in charge of organizing their own knowledge co-production activities. Using the case study of an online symposia series focused on social-ecological-technological systems approaches to holistic green infrastructure implementation, we discuss how critical pedagogical designs help create favorable conditions for transdisciplinary knowledge co-production. Our work suggests that the early career position offers a unique standpoint from which to better understand the limitations of current institutional structures of expertise, with a view towards their transformation through collective action.

Co-Author(s)
Mathieu Feagan
Megan Fork
Geneva Gray
Maike Hamann
Elizabeth H. T. Hiroyasu
Brooke Wilkerson
Research Areas
Communities
Framework, Methods & Tools
Keywords

Pedagogical design

Green infrastructure

Co-production

Publication Type
Journal Article
Digital Object Identifier
https://doi.org/10.1186/s42854-023-00051-1
Full Citation

Feagan, M., Fork, M., Gray, G. et al. Critical pedagogical designs for SETS knowledge co-production: online peer- and problem-based learning by and for early career green infrastructure experts. Urban Transform 5, 6 (2023). CSS23-15