ABSTRACT

This book provides an introduction to the state of sustainability education in Asia. It covers national policies, institutional policies and practices within Asian universities, sustainability considerations for teacher training at schools of education, and pedagogical practices for sustainability in higher education. With contributors from universities and NGOs in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines, Cambodia, India, China and South Korea, this volume brings together the best papers from a series of successful international conferences on post-secondary education for sustainability in Asia.

The book is organized into five parts:

• Part I focuses on paradigms for sustainability education

• Part II looks at sustainability education contexts, strategies and outcomes at the national level

• Part III gives examples of sustainability programs and strategies adopted at specific universities

• Part IV highlights sustainability education research from schools of education

• Part V explores specific examples of post-secondary educational practices in sustainability

part I|76 pages

Projects and paradigms in sustainability education

chapter 1|25 pages

Introduction

Education for Sustainability in Asian contexts

chapter 2|15 pages

Sustainable development

Concepts, histories, and paradigms

chapter 3|34 pages

Economics approaches to sustainability

Methods and applications

part III|32 pages

Policies, practices and programmes in Asian universities

part V|59 pages

Practices in and out of the higher education classroom

chapter 15|11 pages

Water footprints

New paradigms in educating for environmental sustainability in the Philippines 1

chapter 17|22 pages

Conclusions

The state of higher education for sustainability in monsoon Asia