ABSTRACT

The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development. It provides a unique resource for researchers engaged in the field of higher education for sustainable development by connecting theoretical aspects of the range of relevant methodologies, showing the interdisciplinary aspects of the research field and illustrating the breadth of research directions.

With a team of international authors from leading universities in research and teaching in higher education for sustainable development this Handbook brings together a broad range of research approaches and shows how these approaches are reflected in the research practice in higher education for sustainable development. Key topics include:

  • Research Paradigms and Methodologies
  • Ongoing and Future Directions of Research
  • Meta-Analysis and Reviews
  • Policy and Politics
  • Challenges for Implementation
  • Action Research and Transdisciplinary Perspective
  • Gender, Diversity and Post-Colonial Perspectives
  • Operationalising Competencies
  • Outcome-Oriented Research
  • Curriculum Change
  • Organisational Change and Organisational Learning
  • Community and Partnerships
  • University Appraisal Systems and Indicators
  • Evaluation Approaches
  • Engaging Academic Teachers
  • Good Practice Learning and Teaching
  • Transformative Leadership and Change Strategies

This Handbook is an invaluable research and teaching tool for all those working in higher education for sustainable development.

part |77 pages

Education for sustainable development in higher education

chapter |14 pages

Education for Sustainable Development and Sustainability Science

Re-purposing higher education and research

chapter |15 pages

Learning for Walking the Change

Eco-social innovation through sustainability-oriented higher education

part |151 pages

Paradigms and methodologies of research on higher education for sustainable development

chapter |16 pages

Case Study Research on Higher Education for Sustainable Development

Epistemological foundation and quality challenges

chapter |20 pages

Changing from Within

An Action Research perspective for bringing about sustainability curriculum change in higher education

chapter |16 pages

A Review of Three Generations of Critical Theory

Towards conceptualising critical HESD research

chapter |15 pages

Evaluation and Education for Sustainable Development

Navigating a shifting landscape in regional centres of expertise

part |108 pages

Issues and themes of research on higher education for sustainable development

chapter |12 pages

Individual Change

Researching educational outcomes achieved by higher education for sustainable development

chapter |14 pages

Towards a Scholarship of Curriculum Change

From isolated innovation to transformation

part |115 pages

Examples of research on higher education for sustainable development

chapter |13 pages

Sustainable Behaviour in Higher Education Institutions

An exploratory approach

chapter |15 pages

Academics' Opinions and Practices of Education for Sustainable Development

Reflections on a nation-wide, mixed-methods, multidisciplinary study

chapter |10 pages

Students' Competency Development in the Context of Self-Organised and Project-Oriented Sustainability Seminars

Research at the interface between self-description and real-life action

chapter |13 pages

Towards Critique

Exploring the politics and praxis of sustainable higher education change from a discursive-praxeological perspective