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Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development

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Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development book

Edited ByMatthias Barth, Gerd Michelsen, Marco Rieckmann, Ian Thomas
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 27 October 2015
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315852249
Pages 504
eBook ISBN 9781315852249
Subjects Development Studies, Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Education, Environment and Sustainability, Politics & International Relations
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Barth, M., Michelsen, G., Rieckmann, M., & Thomas, I. (Eds.). (2015). Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315852249

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

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

Edited ByMatthias Barth, Gerd Michelsen, Marco Rieckmann, Ian Thomas

part |2 pages

PART 1 Education for sustainable development in higher education

chapter 1|14 pages

Education for sustainable development and sustainability science: re-purposing higher education and research

ByYoko Mochizuki and MasaruYarime

chapter 2|15 pages

Learning for walking the change: eco-social innovation through sustainability-oriented higher education

ByArjen E.J. Wals, Valentina C. Tassone, Gary P. Hampson and Jonathan Reams

chapter 3|16 pages

Policy, politics and polity in higher education for sustainable development

ByGerd Michelsen

chapter 4|16 pages

Challenges for implementation of education for sustainable development in higher education institutions

ByIan Thomas

chapter 5|15 pages

Liturgy and glass ceiling in the process of strengthening the sustainability in institutions of higher education: a perspective from Ibero-America

ByEdgar J. González-Gaudiano, Pablo Á. Meira-Cartea and Cynthia N. Martínez- Fernández

part |2 pages

PART 2 Paradigms and methodologies of research on higher education for sustainable development

chapter 6|11 pages

Understanding approaches to ESD research on teaching and learning in higher education

ByStephen Sterling, Paul Warwick, Lynne Wyness

chapter 7|14 pages

State of the art in research on higher education for sustainable development

ByMatthias Barth, Marco Rieckmann

chapter 8|12 pages

Ongoing and future directions of research on higher education for sustainable development

BySteve Gough, Meyrav Mor, Anna Sowter, Paul Vare

chapter 9|16 pages

Case study research on higher education for sustainable development: epistemological foundation and quality challenges

ByRegula Kyburz-Graber

chapter 10|19 pages

Synthesis of research in higher education for sustainable development

ByMark Rickinson, Alan Reid

chapter 11|20 pages

Changing from within: an Action Research perspective for bringing about sustainability curriculum change in higher education

ByFiona Wahr and Barbara de la Harpe

chapter 12|13 pages

Gender and diversity in research on higher education for sustainable development

ByAngela Franz-Balsen

chapter 13|13 pages

Postcolonial perspectives in research on higher education for sustainable development

ByVanessa de Oliveira Andreotti

chapter 14|16 pages

A review of three generations of critical theory: towards conceptualising critical HESD research

ByHeila Lotz-Sisitka

chapter 15|16 pages

Evaluation and education for sustainable development: navigating a shifting landscape in regional centres of expertise

ByRob O’Donoghue

part |2 pages

PART 3 Issues and themes of research on higher education for sustainable development

chapter 16|20 pages

Operationalising competencies in higher education for sustainable development

ByArnim Wiek, Michael J. Bernstein, Rider W. Foley, Matthew Cohen, Nigel Forrest, Christopher Kuzdas, Braden Kay, Lauren Withycombe Keeler

chapter 17|12 pages

Individual change: researching educational outcomes achieved by higher education for sustainable development

ByKerry Shephard

chapter 18|14 pages

Student engagement and leadership in higher education for sustainability

ByDaniella Tilbury

chapter 19|14 pages

Towards a scholarship of curriculum change: from isolated innovation to transformation

ByKathryn Hegarty, Sarah Holdsworth

chapter 20|14 pages

Organisational change and organisational learning for promoting higher education for sustainable development

ByPaul Sylvestre, Tarah Wright

chapter 21|16 pages

Higher education for sustainable development in the community and through partnerships

ByDebra Rowe, Krista Hiser

chapter 22|16 pages

Sustainability assessment in higher education institutions: what and how?

ByChristian Rammel, Luis Velázquez, Clemens Mader

part |2 pages

PART 4 Examples of research on higher education for sustainable development

chapter 23|13 pages

Sustainable behaviour in higher education institutions: an exploratory approach

ByMargarita Juárez-Nájera

chapter 24|9 pages

Education for sustainable development and curricular greening of undergraduate courses: trends in Brazilian research (1987–2009)

ByJorge Megid Neto, Juliana Rink

chapter 25|12 pages

Social representation of sustainable development models in students at a Mexican public university

ByAntonio Fernández-Crispín, David Lara-González

chapter 26|13 pages

The research process of understanding biographical learning processes of sustainability entrepreneurs

ByJana Timm

chapter 27|15 pages

Academics’ opinions and practices of education for sustainable development: reflections on a nation-wide, mixed-methods, multidisciplinary study

ByBelinda Christie, Kelly Miller

chapter 28|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

ByMandy Singer-Brodowski

chapter 29|13 pages

Towards critique: exploring the politics and praxis of sustainable higher education change from a discursive-praxeological perspective

BySusanne Müller-Lindeque

chapter 30|11 pages

Competencies for sustainability in the curricula of all new degrees from the University of Valencia (Spain)

ByPilar Aznar, M. Angeles Ull, Albert Piñero, M. Pilar Martínez-Agut

chapter 31|17 pages

Implementing education for sustainability in higher education through student-centred pedagogies

ByNeus (Snowy) Evans
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