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Arjen Wals

prof.dr.ir. at Wageningen University & Research

Areas of expertise

  • - Educational research
  • - Environmental education
  • - Learning processes
  • - Social learning
  • - Sustainability transitions

Major works

Courses and Programs taugh t by prof.dr.ir. Wals

  • MOOC: Transformative Citizen Science for Sustainability

Projects by prof.dr.ir. Wals

Visiting Professor Whole Schools Approaches & Sustainability - Norwegian Life Science University
nov 2019 - jul 2022, Supporting research on Whole School Approaches to Sustainability

UNESCO Chair Social Learning & Sustainable Development - UNESCO
jul 2009 - aug 2024

Publications by prof.dr.ir. Wals

Education for sustainable development in the ‘Capitalocene’

Pedersen, H., Windsor, S., Knutsson, B., Sanders, D., Wals, A. & Franck, O., 2022, In: Educational Philosophy and Theory. 54, 3, __p. 224-227

Biology Students’ Morality When Engaged With Moral Dilemmas in the Human-Nature Context

van der Leij, T., Avraamidou, L., Wals, A. & Goedhart, M., 13 Sep 2021, In: Frontiers in Education. 6, 729685.

Designing Collective Artist Residencies

Eernstman, N., Pearson, K. R., Wals, A. E. J., Bjurström, Å. E. & de Vrieze, A. G. M., 30 Sep 2021, In: Airea: Arts and Interdisciplinary Research. 3, __p. 17-34

Education for Sustainable Development

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Wals, A. E. J., 26 May 2021, Oxford Biobliographies. Oxford University Press

Exploring sustainable student travel behaviour in The Netherlands: balancing online and on-campus learning

Versteijlen, M., van Wee, B. & Wals, A. , 14 Aug 2021, In: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. _ 22, 8, p. 146-166 __21 p._

Regenerating the Socio-Ecological Quality of Urban Streams: The Potential of a Social Learning Approach

Tubino de Souza, D., Grandisoli, E., Jacobi, P. R. & Wals, A. E. J., 5 Jan 2021, Environment and Development: Challenges, Policies and Practices. Ioris, A. A. R. (ed.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 67-98

About me

Arjen Wals is a Professor of Transformative Learning for Socio-Ecological Sustainability at Wageningen University where he also holds the UNESCO Chair of Social Learning and Sustainable Development. Furthermore, he is a Guest Professor at the Norwegian University for the Life Sciences and the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Gothenburg University in Sweden.

His work focusses on enabling, supporting and assessing ecologies of learning that foster sustainable living by inviting more relational, ethical and critical ways of knowing and being.

He writes a regular blog that signals developments in the emerging field of sustainability education: www.transformativelearning.nl

His publication can be found here: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8bo58KgAAAAJ&hl=en

Courses and Programs taught by Arjen Wals