Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability Problematics, Promise, and Practice /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Corcoran, Peter Blaze (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Wals, Arjen E. J. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Θέματα: Ethics.; Curriculums (Courses of study).; Education > Curricula.; School management and organization.; School administration.; Higher education.; Environmental management.; Economics.; Management science.; Economics, general.; Higher Education.; Administration, Organization and Leadership.; Environmental Management.; Curriculum Studies.

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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 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.