Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in einer transzendenten Entwicklung des Hochschulsystems – ein Ordnungsangebot für Innovativität

Müller-Christ, Georg

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“…His teachings were made popular in the 1990s by his followers Don Beck and Christopher Cowan under the name of Spiral Dynamics [10]. In this paper, we rely mostly on the adaptations by the Dutch researchers Annick Hedlund-de Witt [34][35][36] and Marcel van Marrewijk [37,38], as well as on our own works [3,16,17,30,39] and on a few popular science works that shed light on practical nuances of the model [5,6,10,40,41].…”

Section: Theoretical Background: Worldviews and Systemic Developmentmentioning

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University 4.0: Promoting the Transformation of Higher Education Institutions toward Sustainable Development

2020

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Higher education institutions (HEIs) could act as pivotal change agents for sustainable development (SD) in times of global climate action. However, HEIs have to respond to increasingly complex demands simultaneously, such as massification, globalization, marketization, and digitalization. Based on Graves’ model of systemic development, this paper discusses two main strategies to deal with increased complexity in order to meet the challenge of SD: (a) Promoting general systemic development of a given HEI, progressively opening up to various stakeholders and focusing on co-creative collaboration, and (b) participating in inter-organizational networks to find inspiration for dealing with challenging trends. Four distinct phases of higher education development are presented. It is argued that transdisciplinary research and research-based learning will increasingly be needed for tackling societal issues and that HEIs should address different organizational subsystems individually. Furthermore, four types of inter-organizational networks are proposed and implications for network management are discussed. A case study of the HOCH-N network illustrates the practical application of the presented ideas. Finally, adopting a multi-dimensional and networked organizational model as an integrative University 4.0 is argued to be suitable for increasing the capacity to deal with complexity, thus meeting the challenge of sustainable development.

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2020

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“…It will only succeed if it methodically and structurally reflects the search process in the field of tension between empirical research, normative demands, and social transformation in relation to the self-conception and organization of science. The reflections of de Lagasnerie [15], Schneidewind [31], Grunwald [14], Müller-Christ [13], and others support this idea, but require greater ethical depth.…”

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“…Autonomy helps to mobilize productivity and efficiency potentials. Often, however, this is a sham autonomy, since it merely addresses the resource constraints with a range of management instruments, which usually follow a business rationality model [13,15,47] (p. 171, pp. 24-27, 33-36, p. 84).…”

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“…However, this farewell has not been consistent, and many contradictions arise in the tension between ecological and socio-economic goals [52] (pp. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]. Awareness of the consequences of the SDGs for everyday politics, economy, and society seems limited.…”

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“…Transformative science should help students to reflect on key problems in depth and to develop action knowledge suitable for their era [13] (p. 162). How this can be achieved is a topic of its own, to which reference can only be made in the context of the reflection focused here on research ethics.…”

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The Role of Universities in a Sustainable Society. Why Value-Free Research is Neither Possible nor Desirable

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Weber

2020

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The current climate crisis confronts us with a deep discrepancy between knowledge and action. Therefore, this article is looking for a readjustment of the relationship between science and society. The positivist self-understanding of science and its fragmented organizational form lead to a marginalization of ethical questions. Instead, sustainability calls for a re-examination of the preconditions and embedding contexts of supposedly value-free research. Faced with the increasing complexity of the modern world, ethics must spell out a new “grammar of responsibility” that addresses the prevalent “declamatory overload of responsibility”. Ethicists can fulfil this role by uncovering and regulating conflicting goals and dilemmas. Instead of playing the role of “marginal echo chambers”, universities ought to assume their social responsibility as structural policy actors. This article suggests a methodology of responsible research as a specific ethical contribution to the model of “transformative” and “catalytic” science for a “post-normal age”. True to their founding mission, academia should herald a “New Enlightenment” that is more self-reflexive regarding its own practical and ethical preconditions, foundations, and consequences. This article presents a possible practical method for fostering the dialogue between the natural sciences and the humanities and to link research, education, practice, and social communication in new ways. It is concluded that a foundation of a whole-rationality approach with a multidimensional understanding of wisdom and, respectively, rationality and sagacity is necessary for sustainable universities.

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Einführung in den aktuellen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs: Relevanz, Begriff, Bezüge

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Bamberg

2018

Psychologie Und Nachhaltigkeit

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Nachhaltigkeitsforschung in einer transzendenten Entwicklung des Hochschulsystems – ein Ordnungsangebot für Innovativität

Cited by 8 publications

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University 4.0: Promoting the Transformation of Higher Education Institutions toward Sustainable Development

University 4.0: Promoting the Transformation of Higher Education Institutions toward Sustainable Development

The Role of Universities in a Sustainable Society. Why Value-Free Research is Neither Possible nor Desirable

Einführung in den aktuellen Nachhaltigkeitsdiskurs: Relevanz, Begriff, Bezüge

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