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Sustainability Education

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Sustainability Education

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Sustainability Education book

Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education

Sustainability Education

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Sustainability Education book

Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education
Edited ByStephen Sterling
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 23 June 2010
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849776516
Pages 384
eBook ISBN 9781849776516
Subjects Development Studies, Law, Politics & International Relations
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Sterling, S. (Ed.). (2010). Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849776516

ABSTRACT

How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior management, a growing number of higher education institutions are taking the lead in embracing sustainability. This response does not only include greening the campus but also transforming curricula and teaching and learning. This book explains why this is necessary and - crucially - how to do it. Bringing together the experience of the HEFCE funded Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) at the University of Plymouth and the Higher Education Academy's Education for Sustainable Development Project, the book distills out the curriculum contributions of a wide range of disciplinary areas to sustainability. The first part of the book provides background on the current status of sustainability within higher education, including chapters discussing interdisciplinarity, international perspectives and pedagogy. The second part features 13 chapter case studies from teachers and lecturers in diverse disciplines, describing what has worked, how and why - and what hasn't. Whilst the book is organised by traditional disciplines, the authors and editors emphasise transferable lessons and interdisciplinarity so that readers can learn from examples outside their own area to embed sustainability within their own curricula and teaching. Subject areas covered include: geography, environmental and Earth Sciences, nursing/health, law, dance, drama, music, engineering, media and cultural studies, art and design, theology, social work, economics, languages, education, business and built environment.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|16 pages

Introduction

ByPaula Jones, David Selby, Stephen Sterling

chapter 2|21 pages

More than the Sum of their Parts? Interdisciplinarity and Sustainability

ByPaula Jones, David Selby, Stephen Sterling

chapter 3|16 pages

‘It’s Not Just Bits of Paper and Light Bulbs’: A Review of Sustainability Pedagogies and their Potential for Use in Higher Education

ByDebby Cotton, Jennie Winter

chapter 4|20 pages

Third-wave Sustainability in Higher Education: Some (Inter)national Trends and Developments

ByArjen E. J.Wals and John Blewitt

chapter 5|18 pages

Education for Sustainability in the Business Studies Curriculum: Ideological Struggle

ByDelyse Springett

chapter 6|15 pages

Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences: A Suitable Home for ESD?

ByBrian Chalkley, Jennifer Blumhof, Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir

chapter 7|23 pages

Climate Change, Sustainability and Health in UK Higher Education:The Challenges for Nursing

ByBenny Goodman, Janet Richardson

chapter 8|22 pages

Sustainability – Is It Legal? The Benefits and Challenges of Introducing Sustainability into the Law Curriculum

ByTracey Varnava, Jason Lowther, Simon Payne

chapter 9|17 pages

Staging Sustainability: Making Sense of Sustainability in HE Dance, Drama and Music

ByPaul Kleiman

chapter 10|28 pages

Engineering our World Towards a Sustainable Future

ByEdited by Simon Steiner

chapter 11|17 pages

Developing Critical Faculties: Environmental Sustainability in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies in Higher Education

ByDebbie Flint

chapter 12|22 pages

Sustainability in the Theology Curriculum

ByKatja Stuerzenhofecker, Rebecca O’Loughlin and Simon Smith

chapter 13|16 pages

Sustaining Communities: Sustainability in the Social Work Curriculum: Andrew Whiteford, Viv Horton, Diane Garrard, Deirdre Ford and Avril Butler

ByCurriculum Andrew Whiteford, Viv Horton, Diane Garrard, Deirdre Ford, Avril Butler

chapter 14|16 pages

Sustainability and Built Environment Professionals: A Shifting Paradigm

ByJudi Farren Bradley, Sarah Sayce, Amanda Lewis

chapter 15|21 pages

Costing the Earth:The Economics of Sustainability in the Curriculum

ByAnthony Plumridge

chapter 16|17 pages

Translating Words into Action and Actions into Words: Sustainability in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Curricula

ByJohn Canning

chapter 17|15 pages

If Sustainability Needs New Values, Whose Values? Initial Teacher Training and the Transition to Sustainability

ByRobert Cook, Roger Cutting, Denise Summers
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