This book looks to cover the issues related to advances in higher education for sustainable development goals. Nowadays, sustainable development is an important concept in higher education. One of the most widely recognized definitions is based in the Brundtland report as "development that meets the
Higher Education for Sustainable Development
โ Scribed by Kerry Shephard (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 138
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-12
Sustainability and ES/ESD Missions: Where Are We Now, How Did We Get Here and Whereto from Here?....Pages 13-19
Educational Research to Find a Way Forward: Methods and Results....Pages 20-33
A Grounded Theory about ES/ESD in Higher Education....Pages 34-53
Front Matter....Pages 54-58
Affect, Cognition and Criticality: Some Educational Theory for University Teachers and for Educational Developers....Pages 59-87
Values Education for Sustainability, Academic Integrity and Professional Values....Pages 88-100
The Challenges of Education for Critical Action....Pages 101-114
A Way Forward....Pages 115-129
Back Matter....Pages 130-131
โฆ Subjects
Sustainable Development; Education, general; Educational Policy and Politics; Higher Education; Administration, Organization and Leadership; Teaching and Teacher Education
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