Arjen E. J. Wals

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

• Education
• Law
• Social science

His scientific interests lie mostly in Sustainability, Environmental education, Education for sustainable development, Higher education and Sustainable development. His study in Sustainability is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Economic growth, Convergence and Knowledge management. The study incorporates disciplines such as Science education, Environmental resource management, Knowledge base, Social science and Politics in addition to Environmental education.

Arjen E. J. Wals combines subjects such as Ecopedagogy, Globalization, Democracy and Engineering management with his study of Education for sustainable development. His Higher education research incorporates elements of Pedagogy, Curriculum, Engineering ethics, Management and Sustainability science. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Criticism, Praxis and Sustainability organizations.

His most cited work include:

• Globalization and environmental education: looking beyond sustainable development (388 citations)
• “Sustainability” in higher education: From doublethink and newspeak to critical thinking and meaningful learning (293 citations)
• Social learning towards a sustainable world (231 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Sustainability, Environmental education, Pedagogy, Social learning and Engineering ethics. His Sustainability research focuses on Higher education and how it relates to Curriculum. His work carried out in the field of Environmental education brings together such families of science as Biodiversity, Public relations, Environmental resource management and Education for sustainable development.

His research integrates issues of Corporate governance and Knowledge management in his study of Public relations. His Social learning study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Climate change, Social learning theory, Learning sciences and Open learning. His Engineering ethics research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Curriculum development and Competence.

He most often published in these fields:

• Sustainability (41.77%)
• Environmental education (33.33%)
• Pedagogy (19.68%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

• Sustainability (41.77%)
• Social learning (20.88%)
• Transformative learning (9.64%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Arjen E. J. Wals mainly investigates Sustainability, Social learning, Transformative learning, Environmental planning and Environmental education. His studies in Sustainability integrate themes in fields like Reflexivity, Pedagogy and Sustainable development. The study of Pedagogy is intertwined with the study of Engineering ethics in a number of ways.

His studies deal with areas such as Climate change, Corporate governance and Vulnerability as well as Social learning. In his work, Action research is strongly intertwined with Higher education, which is a subfield of Transformative learning. Arjen E. J. Wals has included themes like Social change, Sense of place and Convergence in his Environmental education study.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

• Transformative, transgressive social learning: rethinking higher education pedagogy in times of systemic global dysfunction (182 citations)
• The UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development: business as usual in the end (123 citations)
• Co-designing research on transgressive learning in times of climate change (29 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

• Education
• Law
• Social science

His main research concerns Sustainability, Social learning, Engineering ethics, Transformative learning and Climate change. As a part of the same scientific study, Arjen E. J. Wals usually deals with the Sustainability, concentrating on Sustainable development and frequently concerns with Global education, Public administration, Global governance and Sustainability organizations. His Social learning study combines topics in areas such as Reflexivity, Corporate governance and Environmental planning.

His Engineering ethics research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Technocracy and Heuristic. His Transformative learning research is classified as research in Pedagogy. Arjen E. J. Wals has researched Pedagogy in several fields, including Environmental crisis and Higher education.