The Learning in this Era of SDGs ～A Clue from Danish PBL and Green Innovation～

Abstract

This article introduces a new learning style that arises in significant shift from “Mountain climbing-style Learning” to “Voyage-style Learning”. Today’s postmodern society in the SDGs era has higher expectations of students to acquire toughness for innovative human resources. The traditional learning style was just searching for the correct routs with aim for the mountain-peak everyone could see. Being directed under a specific objective, is not substantial anymore in a new era, as students’ prospective challenges would be not always flat but fluctuated. The new style, as I call “Voyage-style Learning” in this paper, is an epic voyage of exploration for students to seek an untraversed island with overcoming small and big waves of obstacles. Voyage-style Learning is the idea stemming from the success of Nordic Problem/Project-based learning(PBL), especially Denmark’s that had brought the green innovation, and from unique education beyond PBL at ESBZ in Berlin. These cases of advanced education can be tailored to develop the quality of learning further for students who strive to be innovators in the era of SDGs.