Analogies for Sustainable Development/Analogies by Global ESD Core Competencies

Knowledge Building
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of discovering, organizing, and testing claims of knowledge; deciding what to believe, and understanding how others decide what to believe.


 * All learning as transfer of learning
 * Biomimicry as analogy
 * Brain as Computer, Brain as Internet
 * Brain as garden
 * Children as scientists
 * Concepts as species
 * Evolutionary process as Learning
 * Knowledge as bricks
 * Knowledge transfer as transfer of learning in the collective brain
 * Maps as analogies
 * Neural networks as telephone wires
 * Neural networks as road networks
 * Scientific disciplines and theories as islands in an Ivory Archipelago
 * Scientific disciplines and theories as languages
 * Schools as organs
 * Species of thought
 * System 1- System 2
 * Transfer of learning as evolutionary information processing
 * Working memory as holding things in your hand

Social-Emotional Reasoning
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of identifying the role of values and emotions in individual and social reasoning.


 * Brain as dual mode camera
 * Brain as moral tongue
 * Capitalism as a Dialectic of Dynamism and Decency
 * Elephant and the Rider
 * Parable of the New Pastures
 * Sacred circling & moral magnetism
 * Tribalism as politics, as football teams
 * 90% Chimp, 10% Bee, 100% Human

Multilevel Cooperation
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of cultivating cooperation towards shared values at multiple levels of social organization.


 * Brain as collective action
 * Brain as common pool resource
 * Brain as evolutionary ecosystem
 * Cancer
 * Cities as organs
 * Cities as (super)organisms
 * Cooperation as sitting in the same boat
 * Corruption as cancer
 * Earth as organism (Gaia hypothesis)
 * Ecosystem as organism
 * Global Village
 * Health as homeostasis
 * Homeostasis as mental health
 * Homeostasis as group design principles
 * Human society as organism
 * Human society as beehive
 * Humans as cancer
 * Insect agriculture as human agriculture
 * Major transitions as a boat race
 * Multilevel selection as fans on a billiard table
 * Networked Complexity
 * Organism as multi-cellular society
 * Parable of the Commons
 * Parable of the New Pastures
 * Schools as organs
 * Schools as superorganisms
 * Selfish Gene
 * Social Genome
 * Universities as organs
 * Universities as superorganisms
 * 90% Chimp, 10% Bee, 100% Human

Collective Learning
Students of sustainable development must master the skills of learning together across ages, sociocultural differences, geographic distance, disciplinary divides and ideological disputes.


 * Human society as organism
 * Human society as beehive
 * Innovation as emergent property
 * Knowledge as bricks
 * Knowledge transfer as transfer of learning in the collective brain
 * Networked Complexity
 * Scientific disciplines and theories as islands in an Ivory Archipelago
 * Scientific disciplines and theories as languages
 * Schools as organs
 * Social learning as collective brain
 * Social Learning as a Jazz Band
 * Social Learning as bees
 * Social Genome
 * Species of thought
 * Universities as organs
 * Wikipedia as collective brain