Sustainability education : perspectives and practice across higher education /
edited by Paula Jones, David Selby, and Stephen Sterling.
- London ; washington, DC : Earthscan, 2010.
- xix, 364 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Paula Jones, David Selby, and Stephen Sterling -- More than the sum of their parts?: interdisciplinarity in relation to sustainability / Paula Jones, David Selby, and Stephen Sterling -- "It's not just bits of paper and light bulbs": a review of sustainability pedagogies and their potential for use in higher education / Debby Cotton and Jennie Winter -- Third wave sustainability in higher education: some (inter)national trends and developments / Ajen Wals and John Blewitt -- Education for sustainability in the business studies curriculum: ideological struggle / Delyse Springett -- Education for sustainable development in geography, earth, and environmental sciences / Brian Chalkley, Jennifer Blumhof, and Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir -- Climate change, sustainability, and health in United Kingdom higher education: the challenges for nursing / Benny Goodman and Janet Richardson -- Sustainability, is it legal?: the benefits and challenges of introducing sustainability into the law curriculum / Tracey Varnava, Jason Lowther, and Simon Payne -- Staging sustainability: making sense of sustainability in he dance, drama, and music / Paul Kleiman -- Engineering our world toward a sustainable future / Simon Steiner -- Developing critical faculties: environmental sustainability in media, communications, and cultural studies in higher education / Debbie Flint -- Sustainability in the theology curriculum / Katja Stuerzenhofecker, Rebecca O'Loughlin, and Simon Smith -- Sustaining communities: sustainability in the social work curriculum / Andrew Whiteford ... [et al.] -- Sustainability and built environment professional: a shifting paradigm / Judi Farren Bradley, Sarah Sayce, and Amanda Lewis -- Costing the earth: the economics of sustainability in the curriculum / Anthony Plumridge -- Translating words into action and actions into words: sustainability in languages, linguistics and area studies curricula / John Canning -- If sustainability needs new values: whose values?: initial teacher training and the transition to sustainability / Robert Cook, Roger Cutting, and Denise Summers.
How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on higher education from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior management, a growing number of higher education institutions are taking the lead in embracing sustainability. This response does not only include greening the campus but also transforming curricula and teaching and learning. This book explains why this is necessary and, crucially, how to do it. Bringing together the experience of the HEFCE funded Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) at the University of Plymouth and the Higher Education Academy's Education for Sustainable Development Project, the book distills out the curriculum contributions of a wide range of disciplinary areas to sustainability. The first part of the book provides background on the current status of sustainability within higher education, including chapters discussing interdisciplinarity, international perspectives and pedagogy. The second part features 13 chapter case studies from teachers and lecturers in diverse disciplines, describing what has worked, how and why, and what hasn't. Whilst the book is organised by traditional disciplines, the authors and editors emphasize transferable lessons and interdisciplinarity so that readers can learn from examples outside their own area to embed sustainability within their own curricula and teaching.