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The Sustainability Curriculum - The Challenge for Higher Education (Hardcover)
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The Sustainability Curriculum - The Challenge for Higher Education (Hardcover)
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The links between education and sustainable development are
deepening, although subject to much controversy and debate. The
success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the
pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly,
for higher education itself to remain relevant and engaged it faces
pressure not only to integrate the insights and lessons drawn from
the perspective of sustainable development, but also to be
responsive to scrutiny of its own practices in relation to
sustainability. Among professionals in higher education,
sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is
embraced by some individuals and departments while being perceived
by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines.
Although it is not currently an academic discipline in its own
right, increasing public and professional familiarity with the
term, and the increasing urgency of global calls for the
implementation of sustainable development mean that this is rapidly
changing. This volume analyses the impact of the concepts and
practices of sustainability and sustainable development on various
academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and
methods of enquiry. The contributors, drawn from a wide-range of
disciplines, perspectives, educational levels and institutional
contexts, examine the purpose of the modern university and the
nature of sustainable education, which includes exploring links to
social movements for sustainability projects, curriculum change,
culture and biodiversity, values relating to gender equality and
global responsibility, and case studies on the transformation, or
otherwise, of some specific disciplines.
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