# 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