Sustainability
new insights for education
Published on 4. May 2007
168 pages
978-1-84663-365-2 (ISBN)
Description
The twelve papers in this e-book emphasise the need for educational leaders across the globe to make fundamental changes in the ways they engage their students, faculty and community stakeholders to chart the course for sustainable societies and develop people with the skills to successfully make this transition. Meaningful education requires an organic relationship between educators, young people, their communities, and their personal and professional goals. Learning for sustainable development must not be segmented but integrative. To be effective it must challenge students to be alert to their increasing capabilities to appreciate the scope of the challenges we face, to observe and conceptualize possible solutions, and to be motivated and empowered to take appropriate action and achieve positive results.
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Content
- Cover
- CONTENTS
- Guest editorial
- Building the requisite capacity for stewardship and sustainable development
- The role of environmental engineering education in sustainable development in Iran
- A methodology for teaching industrial ecology
- Creative activity in conception of sustainable development education
- Adoption of sustainable development schemes and behaviours in Italy
- Sustainable development cognitive map: a new method of evaluating student understanding
- Sustainability for the Americas: building the American network of sustainability consortia
- Experimental educational networking on open research issues
- Why go native? Landscaping for biodiversity and sustainability education
- Education and research related to organic waste management at agricultural engineering schools
- Rural-based universities in South Africa
- The Center for Coastal Studies: sustainable development education in Mexico
- News
- Diary
- Books and resources
- Feature
- News from the net
