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Index; 2003
(Hardcover)
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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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.
Queens' College, part of the University of Cambridge, was founded
in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou, wife of the inept and ill-fated Henry
VI. The first of its 40 Presidents to date was Andrew Doket, an
ambitious Catholic priest, while the latest, the eminent economist
Dr. Mohamed El-Erian, was installed in 2020, in the midst of the
Covid pandemic. This account traces the history of the College
through the lives and times of each of the 40 Presidents in
chronological order. Their varied careers, (which encompass the
martyrdom of Saint John Fisher, incarceration in a prison ship in
the Civil War and preaching at the burning of heretics on Cathedral
Green at Ely), illustrate the interactions between the academic
community and the social, religious, cultural and political life in
Britain, over five and a half centuries.
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