| - Promotion of a broader vision of the self and cooperation; encouraging the consideration of issues involving the fulfillment of responsibilities as citizens of the world; value-focused thinking, aiming at the promotion of equity and justice (BINA; VAZ, 2011) |
- Design of Ecocentric Organizations (STUBBS; COCKLIN, 2008) |
- Process transformation (WADDELL, 2007; FERRER-BALAS, BUCKLAND; MINGO, 2009) |
| - Focus on self-realization and wisdom (MURTAZA, 2011) |
- Objectives that go beyond the Triple Bottom Line, considering second-order issues (such as transparency and participation, reflectivity, integration and equity between generations). It seeks to increase quality of life and social equity - non-human and human species (STUBBS; COCKLIN, 2008; STEURER et al., 2005; KURUCZ; COLBERT; MARCUS, 2013) |
- Proactive problem resolution, taking advantage of opportunities from a system-wide perspective (WADDELL, 2007) |
| - Promoting Sustainability Education: participatory, democratic, pluralistic and emancipatory (STERLING, 2011; WALS; JICKLING, 2002) |
- Sustainable strategies. Management strategy as a social practice (BARIN-CRUZ, PEDROZO; ESTIVALETE, 2006; BAUMGARTNER; KORHONEN, 2010) |
- Changes established in processes, structures, culture and/or technology (FERRER-BALAS, BUCKLAND; MINGO, 2009) |
| - Emphasis on cognitive, affective and related skills goals - head, hands and heart (SINGLETON, 2015; SIPOS; BATTISTI; GRIMM, 2008; WALS & JICKLING, 2002) |
- Organizational commitment to nature: it aims to educate citizens for sustainability; it seeks to minimize the use of virgin materials and renewable energy; elimination of emissions and effluents; non-hierarchical structure; decentralized authority. (STUBBS; COCKLIN, 2008). |
- Radical change. It is believed that current environmental and social challenges require more than a “modernization” policy (SODERBAUM, 2009) |
| - Learning through discovery and creative resolution of problems; student-centered arrangements; collaborative learning; praxis-driven learning; problem orientation; self-regulated learning; learning with and from outsiders (PALMA, NASCIMENTO; ALVES, 2017; WALS; JICKLING, 2002) |
- It promotes spaces for dialogic interaction (WALS; SCHWARZIN, 2012) |
- Collaboration (LOZANO, 2008) |
| - Creation of spaces - space for alternative paths of development; space for new ways of thinking, evaluating and doing; space for participation; space for pluralism, diversity and minority perspectives; space for deep consensus, but also for respectful dissent; space for autonomous and deviant thinking; space for self-determination; space for contextual and spatial differences (WALS; JICKLING, 2002) |
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- Transdisciplinarity (ROORDA, 2001) |
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- Horizontal integration (SIPOS, BATTISTI; GRIMM, 2008; CEULEMANS; DE PRINS, 2010) |
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- It creates a microcosm of the problem system, with all participants entering into equal conditions in the decisions. Top-down and bottom-up (WADDELL, 2007; FERRER-BALAS, BUCKLAND; MINGO, 2009) |