ABSTRACT

This chapter provides a description of the process by which a model sustainability course was created, implemented and replicated for use abroad. It describes the university course's efficacy in transforming behaviour for students in Japan and Vietnam. The chapter examines the efforts to develop the course and evaluative framework in Kyoto from 2011 to 2012, followed by the implementation of the course in Kyoto and Vietnam in 2013. It considers the course's efficacy in transforming sustainability knowledge and competencies into pro-sustainable action, based on results obtained using the evaluative tools described. The course's contribution to capacity building for teachers and students and the logistical as well as ethical issues that arise when a course created for use in a developed country is transferred to a developing one. The chapter concludes with an examination of the issues of ownership and equitable collaboration in tailoring a course made in one context for use in another.