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Inside and Out - Universities and Education for Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
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Inside and Out - Universities and Education for Sustainable Development (Hardcover)
Series: Work, Health and Environment Series
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Two overarching questions permeate the literature on universities
and civic engagement: How does a university restructure its myriad
activities, maintain its academic integrity, and have a
transformative impact off campus? And, who ought to participate in
the conversations that frame and guide both the internal
restructuring process and the off-campus interactions? The
perspective of this book, based on research and projects in the
field, is that long-term, sustainable social and economic
development requires strategies geared to the scientific,
technical, cultural, and environmental aspects of development. Much
of the work in this volume challenges traditional university
practices. Universities tend to reproduce a culture that rejects
direct interaction across traditional academic department
boundaries and beyond the campus. Yet, interdisciplinary work is
important because it more aptly mirrors what is taking place in the
regional economy as firms collaborate across manufacturing
boundaries and community organizations and neighbourhood groups
work to solve common problems. What is distinctive within the range
of scholarship and practice in this volume is the inclination on
the part of increasing numbers of professors on more and more
campuses to collaborate across disciplinary lines. Universities
must persist in the advancement of cross-community, cross-firm, and
cross-institutional learning. The learning dynamics and knowledge
diffusion generated by collaborative activities and new approaches
to teaching can invigorate all phases of learning at the
university. In this way, the university advances its activities
beyond an indiscriminate approach to development, maximizes the use
of its resources, and performs an integrative and innovative role
in the cultivation of equitable and sustainable regions. The
chapters in this book illustrate the strikingly different and
exciting ways in which universities pursue education for
sustainability.
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