Matthias Barth

Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education (eBook, ePUB)

Learning in an age of transformation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book asks how we can equip students and scholars with the capabilities to contribute to a more sustainable future, and the higher education curriculum can be changed in a way to facilitate the paradigm shift needed. Across the globe, a rising number of higher education institutions and academics are responding to these questions by transforming their own teaching and learning and their institutions' curricula. This book contributes to that development by offering a systematic review of existing case studies, reports of innovative approaches, and curriculum changes. It elaborates not only key principles of higher education for sustainable development and drivers and barriers to implementing sustainability in the curriculum, it also provides evidence-based insights in what works and what doesn't - and, most important, why.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135052010
• Artikelnr.: 41774846

Autorenporträt

Matthias Barth is a Professor for Teaching and Learning in Environmental Science at the University of Applied Science Ostwestfalen-Lippe, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: The Need for Change 1. Living in a Time of
Transformation: The challenge of sustainability 2. From Policy to Action :
The maturation of education for sustainable development 3. Higher Education
in the 21st Century: Old missions and new challenges 4. Connecting the
Dots: Higher education for sustainable development Part 2: Learning for a
Change 5. What Are We Striving For? Learning objectives and educational
goals 6. What's Hot and what's Not? Topics in higher education for
sustainable development 7. Facilitating Competence Development: from
teaching to learning 8. Learning To What End? Assessing and evaluation
learning outcomes Part 3: Learning to Change 9. Changing the Organisation
from Within: 'Next' Practices of Higher Education for Sustainable
Development 10. Curriculum Change and Education for Sustainable
Development: Implementation strategies 11. Drivers and Barriers of
Curriculum Change Part 4: Beyond Change 12. Toward a Learning System
Approach 13. Educational Contributions to Sustainability Science 14. Ways
Forward in Higher Education for Sustainable Development

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Introduction Part 1: The Need for Change 1. Living in a Time of Transformation: The challenge of sustainability 2. From Policy to Action : The maturation of education for sustainable development 3. Higher Education in the 21st Century: Old missions and new challenges 4. Connecting the Dots: Higher education for sustainable development Part 2: Learning for a Change 5. What Are We Striving For? Learning objectives and educational goals 6. What's Hot and what's Not? Topics in higher education for sustainable development 7. Facilitating Competence Development: from teaching to learning 8. Learning To What End? Assessing and evaluation learning outcomes Part 3: Learning to Change 9. Changing the Organisation from Within: 'Next' Practices of Higher Education for Sustainable Development 10. Curriculum Change and Education for Sustainable Development: Implementation strategies 11. Drivers and Barriers of Curriculum Change Part 4: Beyond Change 12. Toward a Learning System Approach 13. Educational Contributions to Sustainability Science 14. Ways Forward in Higher Education for Sustainable Development

Rezensionen

We live in an age of drastic change, and if we don't want to be bystanders of collapse, we must steer this age towards sustainability. Matthias Barth has written a book that stimulates rich reflections on what sustainability change agents need to be capable of, and how to acquire these skills. I hope the book gets widely used by students and teachers to put these reflections to work in education and professional practice.

Arnim Wiek, Arizona State University, USA

Learning is the key to change for sustainability in higher education, and yet, not all learning contributes to the building of a sustainable future. Much has been written about this contradiction, especially with regards to curriculum practice, but no text to date has presented a dialogical perspective of the university as a learning organisation for sustainability. This book directly addresses this need and provides a stepping-stone for educators, experts and those engaged in making a transformative difference through higher education.

Daniella Tilbury, University of Gloucestershire, UK

This stands out from the many other books focusing on sustainable development and higher education because of its strong learning focus: not just learning within universities by students and their teachers, crucial though this is; but continuing learning beyond the institution within the wider society. This is welcome as sustainable development will not happen unless it's a social learning process through which we shall, if we are lucky, transform all our futures.

William Scott, University of Bath, UK

A comprehensive and important contribution to the literature and initiatives focused on transforming our universities to deliver their critical role of producing graduates with the capabilities necessary to ensure the sustainable development of our world over the coming decades.

Geoff Scott, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Among other topics, the book provokes thoughts and provides resources to contemplate what change agent skills our graduates need so they can help shift societal norms to a more sustainable future. Without dictating the answers, this publication provides useful questions to frame how educators might identify the change agent skills that are common across cultures and countries, bringing thoughtful perspectives and useful information to this urgent topic. This book can be used to help higher education evolve to make learning that supports a sustainable future part of the curricula for all students.

Debra Rowe, U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development, USA

Over the last decade we have seen an increasing number of publications on higher education and sustainability with case studies and best practice examples from around the globe. What makes this book a unique contribution is how it brings together experiences from different case studies and elaborates key principles of learning in higher education - both individually and as an organization. A must-read for anybody involved in higher education who seeks answers about how to support systemic transformation.

Gerd Michelsen, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany

This book captures the areas, issues and future directions that are at the heart of education for sustainable development success. It offers readers a coherent and systematic account of learning and teaching matters that collectively reinforce its thought provoking message of societal transformation. This is a much needed book that pioneers education for sustainability and provides convincing evidence and new insights that can only result in graduates being ready and able to contribute to a more sustainable future.

Barbara de la Harpe, University of Southern Queensland, Australia