The Sustainable Development Goals in Higher Education: A Transformative Agenda?

✍ Scribed by Wendy Steele

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 302
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the role universities have to play in fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). At the heart of “sustainable development” is the legacy of unsustainable development with its roots in modernity and colonialism. Critical engagement with the SDGs involves recognising these roots are shared by universities and the reciprocal need for maintenance, repair and regeneration. Universities are not just enablers of change, but also important targets of change. By focusing on the role of education about, for and through the SDGs, the authors seek to advance critical engagement with higher education that is both progressive and meaningful. We are all responsible for bearing witness to our age. This book will appeal to all those who hope that more sustainable future worlds are still possible.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
How Did We Get Here?
All of These Things Are Interrelated
Sustainable Development for Who, How, When and to What Effect?
Acknowledgements
Contents
About the Authors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1: A Transformative Agenda
Bearing Witness
Facing Monsters
Who’s Afraid of the SDGs?
Staying with the Trouble
Reworking the Matrix
Axis 1: Institutional Commitment (Shallow to Deep)
Axis 2: Innovation Culture (Conventional to Ethical/Bold)
Future Scenarios
Tolerant
Disengaged
Paternalism
Transformational
Pathways and Provocations
2: Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene
The Story of the SDGs
The Concept of Development
International Development and Its Discontents
Neopopulist International Development
Neoliberal Development
Post-Development
Sustainability and the Anthropocene
3: The Role of the University in Society
The New Normal
The Idea of the University
The Resilience Machine
Universities of Utopia/Dystopia
Seeking the Good University
Good Enough Universities?
The Urgent Need for Maintenance, Repair and Regeneration
The End of the University as We Know It?
The Age of Reciprocity and Change
4: Ethical Innovation
Impact and Innovation
The Power, Myths and Ethics of Technology
Responsible Research and Innovation
RADAR: Beyond RRI to Ethical Innovation
Responsible Innovation
Attentive Innovation
Disruptive Innovation
Authentic Innovation
Regenerative Innovation
5: Re-thinking Research Engagement
The Research-SDGs Relationship
Centrifugal Forces
Centripetal Forces: The Great Acceleration
Conscience and Excellence
Re-thinking Freedom
Activating the Potential of the SDGs
6: Learning and Teaching Matters
Advancing Sustainability
Education About, For and Through the SDGs
Higher Education About the SDGs
Higher Education for the SDGs
Higher Education Through the SDGs
Pedagogical Innovation and the SDGs
Creating an Enabling SDGs L&T Environment
From SDGs Mapping to Curriculum Embedding
From Teacher-Focused to Student-Focused Pedagogies
From Inputs to Graduate Outcomes
Online and Virtual SDGs L&T: Challenges and Opportunities
Learning and Teaching Futures
7: What Does Success Look Like?
The Black Box of Transformative Change
Shifting from Disengagement
Towards Paternalism
Reorienting Indicators of University Performance Towards the SDGs
Towards and Beyond Tolerance
Towards Transformation
1st Generation Impact Culture
2nd Generation Impact Culture
3rd Generation Impact Culture
Responsible and Intentional Higher Education
Becoming Sustainable in Higher Education
8: Sustainable Futures
The Urgent Need to Face Injustice and Unsustainability
Universities: Part of the Problem and Solution
A World in Crisis, Should We Work on Hope?
Avoiding Traps
Another Future Is Possible
SDGs: A Witness Statement for Higher Education
Bibliography
Index