Higher Education for Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum
Redaktion: Johnston, Lucas F.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection provides a glimpse at the ways colleges and universities have integrated sustainability across the curriculum.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136336683
• Artikelnr.: 38258601

Autorenporträt

Lucas F. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES) at Wake Forest University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: When You Wake Up Tomorrow, Paul Rowland
Chapter 1: Introduction: What's Required to Take EfS to the Next Level?
Dedee DeLongpre Johnston and Lucas Johnston
SECTION 1: Understanding the Landscape for Change
Chapter 2: The Emerging Environmental Sustainability Program at Meredith
College: Exploring Student and Faculty Interest and Participation, Laura
Fieselman and Erin Lindquist
Chapter 3: Understanding Student Environmental Interests When Designing
Multidisciplinary Curriculum, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Greg Hitzhusen, Robyn
S. Wilson, Adam Zwickle
Chapter 4: Learning Outcomes: An International Comparison of Countries and
Declarations, Debra Rowe and Lucas Johnston
SECTION 2: Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Strategies and Tactics
Chapter 5: Systems Study of an International Masters Program: A Case from
Sweden, Sanaz Karim, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Asa Heiter
Chapter 6: Keys to Breaking Disciplinary Barriers that Limit Sustainable
Development Courses, William Van Lopik
SECTION 3: Educating the Professional
Chapter 7: Strategies for Transforming Healthcare Curricula: A Call for
Collaboration between Academia and Practitioners, Carrie Rich and Seema
Wadhwa
Chapter 8: Sustainability and Professional Identity in Engineering
Education, Mark Minster, Patricia D. Brackin, Rebecca DeVasher, Erik Z
Hayes, Richard House, Corey Taylor
Chapter 9: Implementing Environmental Sustainability in the Global
Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Industries: Developing a Comprehensive
Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum, Michelle Millar, Chris Brown, Cynthia
Carruthers, Thomas Jones, Yen-Soon Kim, Carola Raab, Ken Teeters, Li-Ting
Yang
SECTION 4: Problem-Based Learning
Chapter 10: Everybody's Business: Addressing the Challenge of Team-Teaching
Partnerships in the Global Seminar, Tamara Savelyeva
Chapter 11: The Moral Ecology of Everyday Life, James J. Farrell
Chapter 12: The Living Home: Building It into the Curriculum, Braum Barber
and Leona Rousseau
SECTION 5: Transformational Approaches
Chapter 13: Shaping Sustainability at Furman and Middlebury: Emergent and
Adaptive Curricular Models, Angela C. Halfacre, Michelle Horhota, Katherine
Kransteuber, Brittany DeKnight, Brannon Andersen, Jack Byrne, Steve
Trombulak, Nan Jenks-Jay
Chapter 14: Stepping Up to the Challenge-The Dalhousie Experience, Tarah
Wright
Chapter 15: Sustainability as a Transformation in Education, Charles L.
Redman
Chapter 16: Toward a Resilient Academy, Richard M. Carp
Epilogue
About the Contributors