Sustainable Tertiary Education in Asia
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This edited volume offers a comprehensive reference point to an interdisciplinary and trans-boundary analysis of the sustainability of Asian tertiary education systems. The four sections of the volume -Collaborations, Transformations, Global-Local Tensions, and Future Developments-reflect the current conditions, ongoing changes, and new directions of the universities' transformative contribution to the 2030 UN Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The chapters in this volume draw on inquiries and experiences from 12 research projects conducted in Asia, featuring cases from South…mehr

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This edited volume offers a comprehensive reference point to an interdisciplinary and trans-boundary analysis of the sustainability of Asian tertiary education systems. The four sections of the volume -Collaborations, Transformations, Global-Local Tensions, and Future Developments-reflect the current conditions, ongoing changes, and new directions of the universities' transformative contribution to the 2030 UN Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The chapters in this volume draw on inquiries and experiences from 12 research projects conducted in Asia, featuring cases from South Korea, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China, and include regions such as the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China, Ural-Siberian, and the Far Eastern regions of Russia. The collection of the studies presented in this volume offers a general framework for sustainable tertiary education that, with some adaptations, could be applied to other tertiary education systems in the world. The presentvolume, Sustainable Tertiary Education in Asia: Policies, Practices, and Developments, contributes to the research arena of Higher Education Sustainability by fostering a cross-cultural dialog among sustainability stakeholders of tertiary education in Asia and beyond.
Autorenporträt
Tamara Savelyeva is an Associate Professor of Sustainable Education at the Hong Kong Institute of Education for Sustainable Development. She serves as a Program Director at the UNESCO Hong Kong Association; Senior Founding Fellow the World Institute of Sustainable Development Planners in Hong Kong SAR; and Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. Dr. Savelyeva conducts educational research and projects in the areas of sustainability education development in different countries. Together with participants of the Rio+20 higher education meeting in Brazil, she has contributed to the educational framework for the 2012 Earth Summit. Her recent scholarly works include In times of uncertainty: Advancing university sustainability model in Hong Kong (2022), New knowledge ecologies and politics of technological change (2021), and SDG3 Health and Wellbeing: Re-calibrating the SDG Agenda (2019). Fang Gao is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Education at the Education University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests are in minority education and sociology of education. She has published Becoming a model minority: Schooling experiences of ethnic Koreans in China (2010), 32 papers in international refereed journals, and 14 refereed book chapters. She co-edited Education, ethnicity and equity in the multilingual Asian context (2019). She is also the editor for Identities, practices and education of evolving multicultural families in Asia-pacific to be published.