Communicating and facilitating thinking about values
From Besten_Wiki
Introduction
We have assumed that we all understand what sustainable development means but in conversation we realise that it is far more complex. The complexity comes from the many lenses and underlying values through which people engage with the world.
Expanding our dialogue and conversations can help us to better understand each other(s) values and bridge divides that hinder sustainable tourism.
There are many skills that can be used to facilitate thinking about and expressing values such as critical thinking, analytical thinking and self reflection may help us appreciate the many layers of values.
Facilitating thinking
- Reflecting on one’s own cultural values
- Using the different context checklist students can reflect on their own positioning and how that shapes their perspectives (decolonisation of self).
- This leads to appreciation of mutuality which leads to a discussion of ethics.
- Deconstruct the values of sustainable tourism as there is a western bias.
Communication
- Encounters with people in different cultural contexts
- Facilitating cross institutional learning activities through different media inside and outside the classroom.
- Online discussion fora
- Student field trip
- E.g. Interfaith eco bike tour where at each destination representatives discuss their perspectives on sustainability.
- Within community experiences
- Activism within own communities
- Applied dissertations
- Secondary research
- Role play
- Simulation
- A student puts themselves in a specific situation
- Problem based learning
- Debating
- Strategic communication – learn the process for how to make a difference in your community
- New social media – take a value or issue and consider how to spread the word in a considered way
- Identify an environmental problem and the different value perspectives that may be held with respect to the problem using the checklist.
- Develop scenarios
