Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches: Experiences from International Case Studies (Strategies for Sustainability)

✍ Scribed by Rodrigo Lozano (editor), Maria Barreiro-Gen (editor)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable Development (SD) is being taught in their courses, which competences are being developed, and which pedagogical approaches are being used to develop the competences. The book brings together practice-based original research on the connection between developing sustainability competences and the pedagogical approaches used, utilizing a framework aimed at helping educators in creating and updating their courses to provide a more complete, holistic, and systemic sustainability education to future leaders, decision makers, educators, and change agents. Compared to previous works addressing SD in education, which often mostly cover tools for improving the sustainability of campus operations, this approach uses assessment tools to uniquely focus on how courses and programmes (i.e. curricula) incorporate SD. Through the case studies, readers will learn about how the 3 major groups of pedagogical approaches have been used: (1) Universal, meaning broadly applicable pedagogies that have been used in many disciplines and contexts; (2) Community and social justice, which are pedagogies developed specifically for use in addressing social justice and community-building; and (3) Environmental education, which are pedagogies emerging from environmental sciences and environmental education practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
References
Literature Review and Methods
Introduction
Sustainability Assessment
Sustainability Competences
Pedagogical Approaches for Sustainability
A Framework Connecting Sustainability Pedagogical Approaches to Competences
Methods Used in Each of the Case Studies
Limitations of the Methods
References
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the University of Gävle
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Reference
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the University of Helsinki
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the University of Parma
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Universidade da Coruña
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the European University of Lefke
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the University of Nyíregyháza
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at Griffith University
Introduction
Origins and Structure
Sustainability Commitments
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at Universidade Aberta
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Central University of Technology (Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment, and Information Technology)
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
References
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Warsaw University of Technology (Faculty of Production Engineering)
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the University of Belgrade-Faculty of Agriculture
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Universidad de Zaragoza (Faculty of Economics and Business)
Introduction
Results
Detailed STAUNCH® Results
Conclusions and Recommendations
Conclusions
Reference
Index