Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development

✍ Scribed by Matthias Barth, Gerd Michelsen, Marco Rieckmann, Ian Thomas

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 505
• Series: Routledge International Handbooks
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development. It provides a unique resource for researchers engaged in the field of higher education for sustainable development by connecting theoretical aspects of the range of relevant methodologies, showing the interdisciplinary aspects of the research field and illustrating the breadth of research directions.
With a team of international authors from leading universities in research and teaching in higher education for sustainable development this Handbook brings together a broad range of research approaches and shows how these approaches are reflected in the research practice in higher education for sustainable development.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
PART 1 Education for sustainable development in higher education
1 Education for sustainable development and sustainability science: re-purposing higher education and research
2 Learning for walking the change: eco-social innovation through sustainability-oriented higher education
3 Policy, politics and polity in higher education for sustainable development
4 Challenges for implementation of education for sustainable development in higher education institutions
5 Liturgy and glass ceiling in the process of strengthening the sustainability in institutions of higher education: a perspective from Ibero-America
PART 2 Paradigms and methodologies of research on higher education for sustainable development
6 Understanding approaches to ESD research on teaching and learning in higher education
7 State of the art in research on higher education for sustainable development
8 Ongoing and future directions of research on higher education for sustainable development
9 Case study research on higher education for sustainable development: epistemological foundation and quality challenges
10 Synthesis of research in higher education for sustainable development
11 Changing from within: an Action Research perspective for bringing about sustainability curriculum change in higher education
12 Gender and diversity in research on higher education for sustainable development
13 Postcolonial perspectives in research on higher education for sustainable development
14 A review of three generations of critical theory: towards conceptualising critical HESD research
15 Evaluation and education for sustainable development: navigating a shifting landscape in regional centres of expertise
PART 3 Issues and themes of research on higher education for sustainable development
16 Operationalising competencies in higher education for sustainable development
17 Individual change: researching educational outcomes achieved by higher education for sustainable development
18 Student engagement and leadership in higher education for sustainability
19 Towards a scholarship of curriculum change: from isolated innovation to transformation
20 Organisational change and organisational learning for promoting higher education for sustainable development
21 Higher education for sustainable development in the community and through partnerships
22 Sustainability assessment in higher education institutions: what and how?
PART 4 Examples of research on higher education for sustainable development
23 Sustainable behaviour in higher education institutions: an exploratory approach
24 Education for sustainable development and curricular greening of undergraduate courses: trends in Brazilian research (1987–2009)
25 Social representation of sustainable development models in students at a Mexican public university
26 The research process of understanding biographical learning processes of sustainability entrepreneurs
27 Academics’ opinions and practices of education for sustainable development: reflections on a nation-wide, mixed-methods, multidisciplinary study
28 Students’ competency development in the context of self-organised and project-oriented sustainability seminars: research at the interface between self-description and real-life action
29 Towards critique: exploring the politics and praxis of sustainable higher education change from a discursive-praxeological perspective
30 Competencies for sustainability in the curricula of all new degrees from the University of Valencia (Spain)
31 Implementing education for sustainability in higher education through student-centred pedagogies
Index