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Title Higher education and the challenge of sustainability : problematics, promise, and practice / edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran and Arjen E.J. Wals
Published Dordrecht : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2004]
©2004

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Description xv, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Springer Nature Book Archives Millennium (2000-2004)
Contents Machine derived contents note: Foreword by Richard M. ClugstonPrefaceAcknowledgements -- Part One: Problematics 1 The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction; Peter Blaze Corcoran and Arjen E.J. Wals 2. The Evolution of Sustainability Declarations in Higher Education; Tarah Wright 3. Sustainability as Emergence: The Need for Engaged Discourse; Richard Bawden 4 Critical Realism: A Philosophical Framework for Higher Education for Sustainability; John Huckle 5. Higher Education, Sustainability, and the Role of Systemic Learning; Stephen Sterling 6. Assessing Sustainability: Criteria, Tools, and Implications; Michael Shriberg 7. The Problematics of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis; Peter Blaze Corcoran and Arjen E.J. Wals -- Part Two: Promise 8. The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction; Arjen E.J. Wals and Peter Blaze Corcoran 9. Environmental Education for Sustainability: A Force for Change in Higher Education; Daniella Tilbury 10. The Contribution of Environmental Justice to Sustainability in Higher Education; Julian Agyeman and Craig Crouch 11. Learning Our Way to a Sustainable and Desirable World: Ideas Inspired by Arne Naess and Deep Ecology; Harold Glasser 12. The Contribution of Ecofeminist Perspectives to Sustainability in Higher Education; Annette Gough 13. Sustainability and Transformative Educational Vision; Edmund O?Sullivan 14. Teaching Interactive Approaches to Natural Resource Management: A Key Ingredient in the Development of Sustainability in Higher Education; Niels Rḻing 15. Living Sustainably through Higher Education: A Whole Systems Design Approach to Organizational Change; James Pittman 16. Disciplinary Explorations of Sustainable Development in Higher Education; Geertje Appel, Irene Dankelman and Kirsten Kuipers 17. The Promise of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis; Arjen E.J. Wals and Peter Blaze Corcoran -- Part Three: Practice18. The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: An Introduction; Kim Walker, Arjen E.J. Wals and Peter Blaze Corcoran 19. Education and Sustainable Development in United Kingdom Universities: A Critical Exploration; William Scott and Stephen Gough 20. Lighting Many Fires: South Carolina?s Sustainable Universities Initiative; Wynn Calder and Rick Clugston 21. Integrating Education for the Environment and Sustainability into Higher Education at Middlebury College; Nan Jenks-Jay 22. Sustainability in Higher Education through Distance Learning: The Master of Arts in Environmental Education at Nottingham Treat University; Malcolm Plant 23. A Pedagogy of Place: The Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University; Rocky Rohwedder 24. Policy Development for Sustainability in Higher Education: The Auditing Instrument for Sustainability in Higher Education; Niko Roorda 25. Curriculum Deliberation amongst Adult Learners in South African Community Contexts at Rhodes University; Heila Lotz-Sisitka 26. Incorporating Sustainability in the Education of Natural Resource Managers Curriculum Innovation at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University of Denmark; Susanne Leth and Nadarajah Sriskandarajah 27. The Practice of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Synthesis; Arjen E.J. Wals, Kim Walker and Peter Blaze Corcoran Resource Links ? Rogier van Mansvelt Afterword ? Hans van GinkelAbut the Editors
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Also available in print
Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Subject Sustainable development.
Education, Higher -- Economic aspects.
Environmental education.
Environmental responsibility -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Sustainable development -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Environmental sciences -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Education, Higher -- Environmental aspects.
Author Corcoran, Peter Blaze.
Wals, Arjen E. J.
ebrary, Inc.
LC no. 2004042143
ISBN 1402021348
1402020260 HB
030648515X e-book