Peter Blaze Corcoran / Arjen E.J. Wals (Hgg.)

Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability

Problematics, Promise, and Practice
Herausgegeben:Corcoran, Peter Blaze; Wals, Arjen E.J.

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Produktbeschreibung

Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They must be able to deal with conflicting norms and values, uncertain outcomes and futures, and a changing knowledge base. At the same time they will need to be able to contextualize knowledge in an increasingly globalized society.

This book provides a variety of valuable theoretical and practical resources for students, teachers, researchers, and administrators who seek to integrate sustainability in higher education. Sustainability is not only explored as both an outcome and a process of learning, but as a catalyst for educational change and institutional innovation. The book raises the various problematics related to this inchoate field and provides an intellectual history and critical assessment of the prospects for institutionalizing sustainability in higher education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Netherlands
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4020-2134-3
• 2004
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 580g
• ISBN-13: 9781402021343
• ISBN-10: 1402021348
• Artikelnr.: 21586145

Inhaltsangabe

Problematics.- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction.- The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education.- Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse.- Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability.- Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning.- Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications.- The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis.- Promise.- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction.- Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education.- The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education.- Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology.- The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Stainability in Higher Education.- Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision.- Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education.- Living Sustainably Through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change.- Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education.- The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis.- Practice.- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction.- Education and Sustainabile Development in United Kingdom Universities: A Critical Exploration.- Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina's Sustainable Universities Initiative.- Integrating Education for the Environment and Sustainability Into Higher Education at Middlebury College.- Sustainability in Higher Education Through Distance Learning:The Master of Arts in Environmental Education at Nottingham Trent University.- The Pedagogy of Place: The Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University.- Developing Sustainability in Higher Education Using Aishe.- Curriculum Deliberation Amongst Adult Learners in South African Community Contexts at Rhodes University.- Incorporating Sustainability in the Education of Natural Resource Managers: Curriculum Innovation at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark.- The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis.

Rezensionen

"This collection, by leading practitioners, critics, and researchers, is a valuable educational tool. It has the potential to advance significantly the movement towards education for sustainability."
(Hans van Ginkel, President, International Association of Universities and Rector of the United Nations University, Tokyo, Japan)
"This is a valuable book; it makes a significant and unique contribution to the burgeoning field of sustainable development. It is a fresh breeze with its stories of real academics working to make a difference in their courses, faculties, and universities."
(Dr. Karen Malone, Associate Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and Australian Director of UNESCO's Growing Up in Cities Project)
"Issues of sustainability pose a Copernican level challenge to educators and educational institutions everywhere. Professors Corcoran and Wals have assembled an exemplary group of scholars and change agents to survey the field and the results are both useful and exciting. Strongly recommended for educators, administrators, and all interested in the transition to a world better than that in prospect."
(David W. Orr, Professor and Chair of the Environmental Studies, Oberlin College, USA)