Cognition (how we think about and perceive issues)
Similarly, the ways in which we perceive the environment and society affect our options for action. Institutions of higher education have the responsibility to cultivate critical thinking and awareness of the issues that challenge our progress as a species. Deep learning involves reaching beyond daily events to touch on worldviews and distortions to the social system that are not always readily apparent. Some of the relevant concepts that might be considered in teaching sustainability are listed below. Continue to references
- Bounded rationality
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cultural inertia
- Denial
- Embodied cognition
- Epistemology
- Habits of mind
- Memes
- Motivated reasoning
- Resistance to change
- Social traps
- Traditional knowledge (métis)
- Worldviews
