High-Quality Outdoor Learning. Evidence-based Education Outside the Classroom for Children, Teachers and Society, ed. by Rolf Jucker & Jakob von Au (Cham: SpringerNature, 2022). 486 p. 80 illus., 76 illus. In colour. ISBN 978-3-031-04107–5. Open Access e-book (PDF, EPUB, Chapter downloads, online access): https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04108-2. See my chapters:

1. ‘Outdoor Learning – Why It Should Be High up on the Agenda of Every Educator. Introduction’, pp. 1-26; (together with Jakob von Au) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04108-2_1;

2. ‘How to Raise the Standards of Outdoor Learning and its Research. Summary of ‘The Existing evidence-base about the effectiveness of outdoor learning’, by Fiennes et al.’, Chapter 6, pp. 123-132, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04108-2_6].

Draussenlernen. Neue Forschungsergebnisse und Praxiseinblicke für eine Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung, ed. by Jakob von Au & Rolf Jucker (Bern, hep verlag, 2022). 584 Seiten, Broschur. ISBN 978-3-0355-2113-9. [therin: ‘Vorwort’, pp. 5-6; (together with Jakob von Au): ‘Draussenlernen und Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – vielfältig und wirkungsvoll’, Chapter 1, pp. 11-32; (together with Jakob von Au)]. https://www.hep-verlag.ch/draussenlernen, also available as e-book .

This book is a condensed summary of my learnings and reflections over the last decades. My conclusion: If we want to solve the complex problems facing humanity, we need to embrace complexity and the best available science in order to remodel democracy and education. For this to happen, we need to unlearn most of our outdated and wrong mental models about the world and ourselves.

The book is now available in hardback and paperback (25% discount when you enter the code PROMO25 at the checkout) as well as in an affordable Kindle Edition (£9.99). Download a flyer here to spread the word by sending it to friends and colleagues who might be interested! As a teaser read the Book in Focus blog in English or similar blogposts in in German or French. A 30-page sample is available here. There is also a review by Alexander von Sternberg in Aero Magazine.

You can listen to an Education for Sustainability Learning Pod where Glenn Strachan talks with me about the book. Find reviews of the book here (click on Reviews tab). Two longer interviews about the book appeared in German: “Alles zu komplex?“, in ernährung heute 3_2020 & „Die Hälfte glaubt an den Teufel“, in profil, No. 45, 2020. There is also a recent review from Carina Kern in forum.ernährung heute (in German).

• Rolf Jucker: Can We Cope with the Complexity of Reality? Why Craving Easy Answers Is at the Root of our Problems. Reflections on science, self-illusions, religion, democracy and education for a viable future. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2020. 149 pp. Hardback. ISBN (10): 1-5275-4851-1; ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-4851-0. / Paperback 2021. ISBN (10): 1-5275-6764-8; ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-6764-1.

• Rolf Jucker: Do We Know What We Are Doing? Reflections on Learning,
  Knowledge, Economics, Community and Sustainability. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014. ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-6685-9; ISBN-10: 1-4438-6685-7This is my personal analysis of the UN Decade of ESD. It is an attempt
  to truly take seriously a systemic approach and understanding of the
  state we are in. I then try to assess what this means for education. In
  my view this leads to a paradigm shift and radical reconceptualisation
  of how we need to understand and practice learning. Arjen Wals has aptly
  called this hybrid social learning.

You can download a flyer here to spread the word: Rolf Jucker_Do We Know What We Are Doing_flyer-1-4438-6685-7 | Access reviews here

Or you can order the book and access additional information at:
https://www.cambridgescholars.com/do-we-know-what-we-are-doing-reflections-on-learning-knowledge-economics-community-and-sustainability

Read Mike Carroll’s review of the book in the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (doi: 10.1177/0973408215588256, September 2015 vol. 9 no. 2 229-232).

• Rolf Jucker: Our Common Illiteracy. Education as if the Earth and People Mattered.

This book is available under a Creative Commons Licence: you can read it online, browse through it, print it, download it for free. If you use it, please acknowledge your source. Thanks.

it was originally published by Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M. et al., 2002 [= Environmental Education, Communication and Sustainability, ed. by Walter Leal Filho; Vol. 10]). 364 pp. ISBN 3-631-39117-X, US-ISBN 0-8204-5483-4, ISSN 1434-3819.

Our Common Illiteracy takes seriously the international consensus that Education for Sustainability (EfS) is crucial to the survival of humankind. It establishes the principles of a sustainable society and performs a rigorous assessment of the reasons for our unsustainable present. Only on that foundation, it is argued, can the role of education in the transition to a sustainable society be meaningfully assessed. Such an approach is by necessity complex, transdisciplinary and broad. It has to acknowledge the limited significance of education within contemporary society, along with other ‘educators’ such as the media, the economy and the shadow curriculum of institutional practice. The book ends with 28 practical strategies to foster Education for Sustainability.

Read C.A. Bowers’ review of the book here / Access citations here