Sustainability Education
by Jones, Paula; Selby, David; Sterling, StephenFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2010-05-01
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary
Sustainability Education examines how universities can make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future. It distils the curriculum contributions of a wide range of disciplinary areas, providing inspiration, theory, case studies and transferable ideas from across HE.
Author Biography
Paula Jones is a Research Assistant at the Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Plymouth. UK. David Selby is Founding Director of Sustainability Frontiers, a not-for-profit international organization concerned with sustainability and global education; he is also Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Education, Mount St Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Stephen Sterling is Professor of Sustainability Education at the Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth, and Senior Advisor to the Higher Education Academy ESD Project, UK.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | p. vii |
| Acknowledgements | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| Foreword | p. xiii |
| List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| More than the Sum of their Parts? Interdisciplinarity and Sustainability | p. 17 |
| 'It's Not Just Bits of Paper and Light Bulbs': A Review of Sustainability Pedagogies and their Potential for Use in Higher Education | p. 39 |
| Third-wave Sustainability in Higher Education: Some (Inter)national Trends and Developments | p. 55 |
| Education for Sustainability in the Business Studies Curriculum: Ideological Struggle | p. 75 |
| Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences: A Suitable Home for ESD? | p. 93 |
| Climate Change, Sustainability and Health in UK Higher Education: The Challenges for Nursing | p. 109 |
| Sustainability - Is It Legal? The Benefits and Challenges of Introducing Sustainability into the Law Curriculum | p. 133 |
| Staging Sustainability: Making Sense of Sustainability in HE Dance, Drama and Music | p. 155 |
| Engineering our World Towards a Sustainable Future | p. 173 |
| Developing Critical Faculties: Environmental Sustainability in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies in Higher Education | p. 201 |
| Sustainability in the Theology Curriculum | p. 219 |
| Sustaining Comnmunities: Sustainability in the Social Work Curriculum | p. 241 |
| Sustainability and Built Environment Professionals: A Shifting Paradigm | p. 257 |
| Costing the Earth: The Economics of Sustainability in the Curriculum | p. 273 |
| Translating Words into Action and Actions into Words: Sustainability in Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies Curricula | p. 295 |
| If Sustainability Needs New Values, Whose Values? Initial Teacher Training and the Transition to Sustainability | p. 313 |
| Endword | p. 329 |
| List of Contributors | p. 331 |
| Recommended Publications and Websites | p. 341 |
| Index | p. 343 |
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