The Sustainable University: Progress and Prospects

ISBN-13: 9781138801516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 334 str.

Stephen Sterling;Larch Maxey;Heather Luna

Opis

The direction of higher education is at a cross roads against a background of mounting sustainability related issues and uncertainties. This book seeks to inspire positive change in higher education by exploring the rich notion of the sustainable university and illustrating pathways through which its potential can be realised.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: Context  1. The Sustainable University  2. ESD: Contesting the Market Model of Higher Education?  3. Higher Education and Sustainable Development – an International Perspective  Part 2: Aspects  4. Promoting Sustainable Communities, Locally and Globally  5. Leadership  6. The Sustainable Community of a Sustainable University?  7. Curriculum and Pedagogies for ESD  8. Research at the Sustainable University: Fostering New Understandings  9. The Student Experience: Campus, Communities and Transition  10. Wellbeing  Part 3: Institutional Change  11. Whole Institutional Change  12. Bottom(s) Up for Sustainability: The Kingston Experience  13. On the Journey - the Green Academy and HEA  14. The Sustainable University - Prospects

O autorze

Stephen Sterling is Professor of Sustainability Education and Head of Sustainability Education at Plymouth University, and former Senior Advisor on ESD to the Higher Education Academy (HEA). He is a member of the UNESCO Expert Reference Group for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) and was a founder of the Education for Sustainability Programme at London South Bank University.

Larch Maxey is a Research Fellow with the Centre for Sustainable Futures at Plymouth University and the founding Chair of Plymouth Incredible Edibles, a student, staff and community food initiative. He has co-run several sustainable education projects, was founding Chair of Swansea University’s Sustainability Forum and is currently Director of Research with the Ecological Land Cooperative. He is the co-founder of the Transition Research Network.

Heather Luna is a freelance education for sustainability consultant, having worked with the HEA as a project coordinator from 2005 to 2011. She is a Tutor on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and University of Bradford Postgraduate Certificate in the Circular Economy. She founded Sustainable Thornbury, a Transition Initiative, and is active in the collapsonomics and Dark Mountain dialogue and explorations.