Higher Education and Sustainable Development: Paradox and Possibility

by Gough; Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780415416528
• ISBN10: 0415416523
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-24
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The Key Issues in Higher Education series aims to raise both awareness and the standards of debate on the fundamental issues that lie at the very heart of higher education and intends to assist national and international debate.

Author Biography

William Scott directs the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vii
List of tables	p. viii
List of boxes	p. ix
Foreword	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgements	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
What is higher education for?	p. 8
Sustainable development and the free society	p. 13
Sustaining development	p. 20
Case Study One - An international initiative in higher education management: University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF)	p. 29
Case Study Two - United Nations Environment Programme initiative: Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities (MESA)	p. 35
Case Study Three - A UNESCO initiative: Re-orienting teacher education to address sustainability	p. 41
Case Study Four - Sustainable development and higher education management: The work of the Higher Education Funding Council for England	p. 47
Case Study Five - Russian interpretation of sustainability and its reflection in higher education	p. 55
Case Study Six - Sustainability in management education: An initiative in sustainable procurement training	p. 64
Case Study Seven - Sustainability in engineering education: The Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professors Scheme	p. 73
The case studies: Clarity and confusion	p. 79
The environment in sustainable development and higher education	p. 87
Society in sustainable development and higher education	p. 95
Economy in sustainable development and higher education	p. 103
Individual learning in higher education	p. 111
Collective learning in higher education	p. 120
Linking learning and research	p. 131
Managing sustainable development in higher education: Context and principles	p. 139
Managing change	p. 148
Managing across the organisational boundary	p. 155
Higher education and sustainable development: An identity of interest?	p. 166
References	p. 174
Index	p. 183
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