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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |77 pages
Education for sustainable development in higher education
chapter |14 pages
Education for Sustainable Development and Sustainability Science
chapter |15 pages
Learning for Walking the Change
chapter |14 pages
Liturgy and Glass Ceiling in the Process of Strengthening the Sustainability in Institutions of 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
chapter |20 pages
Changing from Within
chapter |16 pages
A Review of Three Generations of Critical Theory
chapter |15 pages
Evaluation and Education for Sustainable Development
part |108 pages
Issues and themes of research on higher education for sustainable development
chapter |12 pages
Individual Change
chapter |14 pages
Towards a Scholarship of Curriculum Change
part |115 pages
Examples of research on higher education for sustainable development