Issues in Teaching and Learning of Education for Sustainability

Theory into Practice

Herausgeber: Chang, Chew-Hung; Wi, Andy; Kidman, Gillian

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This book highlights the issues and challenges educators and academics face in implementing a curriculum for Education for Sustainability (EfS) and gives examples of what an EfS curriculum may look like and how some institutions translate the theory into practice.

Chew-Hung Chang is an Associate Professor at the Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group at NIE, NTU. He is a geography educator serving as the Co-Chair of the International Geographical Union - Commission on Geographical Education (IGU-CGE), Co-Editor of the journal International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (IRGEE), as well as the President of the Southeast Asian Geography Association (SEAGA). In addition to being a teacher educator, he has published extensively across areas in geography, climate change education, environmental and sustainability education. Gillian Kidman is an Associate Professor of Science Education at Monash University, Australia. Her teaching and curriculum design are award-winning and she was a Lead Writer and Senior Advisor for Australia's National Curriculum - Australian Curriculum: Science (Science Inquiry Skills strand). She is the Co-Editor of the journal International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (IRGEE) and is the Australian Representative - Steering Committee, International Geographical Union-Commission Geographical Education (IGU-CGE) and Group Leader - Sub-Committee for Diversifying Research at IGU-CGE. Gillian has research and teaching interests in the sciences and humanities, with a particular interest in inquiry forms of teaching and learning as well as the potential inquiry pedagogies have for the integration of science with other disciplines. Andy Wi is a research associate at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and the Assistant Secretary of the Southeast Asian Geography Association (SEAGA). Previously, he was an educator with more than 15 years of teaching experience. He has a PhD in public education, environmental education and policy. His current research focuses are in public and environmental education, geography curriculum and Education for Sustainability. He has published in research journals such as the Environmental Education Research (EER) and the International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education (IRGEE).