Higher education and the challenge of sustainability : problems, promise, and practice /

Other Authors: Corcoran, Peter Blaze, Wals, Arjen E. J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004
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505 0 |a Foreword by Richard M. Clugston -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part One. Problematics: 1. The problematics of sustainability in higher education: an introduction 2. The evolution of sustainability declarations in higher education 3. Sustainability as emergence: the need for engaged discourse 4. Critical realism: a philosophical framework for higher education for sustainability 5. Higher education, sustainability and the role of systemic learning 6. Assessing sustainability: criteria, tools and implications 7. The problematic of sustainability in higher education: a synthesis -- Part Two. Promise: 8. The promise of sustainability in higher education: an introduction 9. Environmental education for sustainability: a force for change in higher education 10. The contribution of environmental justice to sustainability in higher education 11. Learning our way to a sustainable and desirable world: ideas inspired by Arne Naess and deep ecology 12. The contribution of ecofeminist perspectives to sustainability in higher education 13. Sustainability and transformative educational vision 14. Teaching interactive approaches to natural resources management: a key ingredient in the development of sustainability in higher education 15. Living sustainability through higher education: a whole systems design approach to organizational change 16. Disciplinary explorations of sustainable development in higher education 17. The promise of sustainability in higher education: a synthesis -- Part Three. Practice: 18. The practice of sustainability in higher education: an introduction 19. Education and sustainable development in United Kingdom Universities: a critical exploration 20. Lighting many fires: South Carolinaʹs sustainable Universities initiative 21. Integrating education for the environment and sustainability into higher education at Middlebury College 22. Sustainability in higher education through distance learning: the master of arts in environmental education at Nottingham Trent University 23. A pedagogy of place: the environmental technology center at Sonoma State University 24. Policy development for sustainability in higher education: the auditing instrument for sustainability in higher education 25. Curriculum deliberation amongst adult learners in South Africa community context at Rhodes University 26. Incorporating sustainability in the education of natural resource managers: curriculum innovation at the Royal Veterinaty and Agricultural University of Denmark 27. The practice of sustainability in higher education: a synthesis -- Resource Links -- Afterword -- About the editors 
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