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Research in the field of education for sustainable development
(ESD) is of growing concern to meet the needs of the diverse
student populations in various higher education institutions.
People around the world recognize that current economic development
trends are not sustainable and that public awareness, education,
and training are key to moving society toward sustainability.
Although ESD continues to grow both in content and pedagogy and its
visibility and respect have grown in parallel, education officials,
policymakers, educators, curriculum developers, and others are
called upon to rethink education in order to contribute to the
achievement of the goals of sustainable development in higher
education. Implications of Sustainable Development in Higher
Education: Teaching, Learning, and Assessment provides insight
regarding the implications of ESD for teaching, learning, and
assessment in higher education and demonstrates the value of
adopting an ESD lens by broadening and strengthening the evidence
base of the impact that this can make for students, educators, and
society as a whole. Covering key topics such as assessment,
globalization, and inclusion, this reference work is ideal for
university leaders, administrators, policymakers, researchers,
scholars, practitioners, academicians, instructors, and students.
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extremely
wide-ranging and well researched . . . In a tradition of protest
literature rooted more in William Blake than in Marx." -Adam
Gopnik, The New Yorker The epic story of how coffee connected and
divided the modern world Coffee is an indispensable part of daily
life for billions of people around the world. But few coffee
drinkers know this story. It centers on the volcanic highlands of
El Salvador, where James Hill, born in the slums of Manchester,
England, founded one of the world's great coffee dynasties at the
turn of the twentieth century. Adapting the innovations of the
Industrial Revolution to plantation agriculture, Hill helped turn
El Salvador into perhaps the most intensive monoculture in modern
history-a place of extraordinary productivity, inequality, and
violence. In the process, both El Salvador and the United States
earned the nickname "Coffeeland," but for starkly different
reasons, and with consequences that reach into the present.
Provoking a reconsideration of what it means to be connected to
faraway people and places, Coffeeland tells the hidden and
surprising story of one of the most valuable commodities in the
history of global capitalism.
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