Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Problematics, Promise, and Practice

Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They...

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Other Authors: Corcoran, Peter Blaze (Editor), Wals, Arjen E.J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 2004, 2004
Edition:1st ed. 2004
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Pedagogy of Place: The Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University
  • Developing Sustainability in Higher Education Using Aishe
  • Curriculum Deliberation Amongst Adult Learners in South African Community Contexts at Rhodes University
  • Incorporating Sustainability in the Education of Natural Resource Managers: Curriculum Innovation at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark
  • The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis
  • Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision
  • Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change
  • Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education
  • The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis
  • Practice
  • The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction
  • Education and Sustainabile Development in United Kingdom Universities: A Critical Exploration
  • Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina’s Sustainable Universities Initiative
  • Integrating Education for the Environment and Sustainability Into Higher Education at Middlebury College
  • Sustainability in Higher Education Through Distance Learning:The Master of Arts in Environmental Education at Nottingham Trent University
  • Problematics
  • The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction
  • The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education
  • Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse
  • Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability
  • Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning
  • Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications
  • The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis
  • Promise
  • The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction
  • Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education
  • The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education
  • Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology
  • The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Stainability in Higher Education