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Learning from the Dirt: Initiating university food gardens as a cross-disciplinary tertiary teaching tool
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Food gardens are an underdeveloped resource for teaching and research in Australian universities. While some campuses have food or botanical gardens, outside the biological or physical sciences food growing is …
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Responsible Management Education as Socialization: Business Students’ Values, Attitudes and Intentions
- Nazareth College (NY)
- Macquarie University (NSW)
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
The growing interest in sustainable development in all sectors of the economy has fostered a noteworthy shift toward responsible management education (RME). This emerging view underscores that business schools provide …
- Posted May 5, 2021
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The Value of Experiential and Action Learning in Business Ethics Education
- Macquarie University (NSW)
This paper develops an interpretive framework around ethical learning by using qualitative methods to examine the collective impact of Experiential Learning Activity (ELA) and Critical Action Learning (CAL) on student …
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Green sprouts: Transformative learning in learning through participation (LTP)
- Macquarie University (NSW)
This article explores the transformative learning effects of university courses that integrate academic learning with practical experience, highlighting in particular the tripartite learning that may occur where students are encouraged …
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Ecological Footprinting as a Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach to Complete Campus Engagement and Transformation Towards the One Planet Goal
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Enabling students to apply well-informed and skill-based understandings to their own decision-making about the dynamic relationships between individuals, societies, environments and economies in a resource constrained world is a central …
- Posted June 25, 2018
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Sustainability skills - what are they? And how do we know students have them...
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Sustainability in the curriculum. Everyone is talking about it and wondering how you do it! Especially when you are a professional staff member entering into the world of faculty. Three …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Using the SDGs to progress sustainability
- Macquarie University (NSW)
The Sustainable Development Goals are the talk of the decade. Every nation state on the planet has signed up to achieve them - but what does this mean for tertiary …
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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A Qualitative Study of Motivation and Influences for Academic Green Building Developments in Australian Universities
- Macquarie University (NSW)
- La Trobe University (Victoria)
Green building projects have been adopted by many universities in Australia as part of their renovation and expansion. In order to investigate the motivations of academic decision makers to invest …
- Posted July 21, 2016
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Developing Learning Outcomes for Sustainability
- Macquarie University (NSW)
This resource provides information on how to develop learning outcomes for sustainability, including examples sourced from unit outlines across the university.
- Posted July 6, 2016
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The Role of Gender and Age in Business Students’ Values, CSR Attitudes, and Responsible Management Education: Learnings from the PRME International Survey
- Macquarie University (NSW)
As demand grows from various stakeholders for responsible management education (RME) in business schools, it is essential to understand how corporate social responsibility (CSR) and RME are perceived by various …
- Posted April 26, 2016
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Content & pedagogy framework: To embed sustainability in curriculum
- Macquarie University (NSW)
As the sustainability movement gains greater momentum within the tertiary education space, institutions are increasingly asking the question of how sustainability goes beyond campus operations to be embedded more holistically …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Adapting Planning and Reporting for a Sustainable Future: A Case Study of the use of Ecological Footprinting to 40 Campuses.
- Macquarie University (NSW)
- The Footprint Company Pty Ltd (New South Wales)
A central mission of sustainability in the tertiary sector is equipping future generations with the understanding of the interdependencies between the environment, economy and society and to build the capability …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Embedding Ecological Footprinting into Curriculum as a Tool to Engage Students
- Macquarie University (NSW)
The Department of Environment and Geography and the Sustainability Unit at Macquarie University, Sydney, collaborated to develop and investigate the effectiveness of environmental education pedagogy. A central sustainability goal in …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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People, Planet, Participation: An Approach to Holistically Embedding Sustainability in Curriculum
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Embedding sustainability across a broad curriculum is a difficult and daunting task. An holistic approach cannot simply focus on adding content into existing units, nor can it depend upon specifically …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Aiming Higher: The Rio+20 Report on Higher Education's Role in Sustainable Development
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Our presentation will highlight the efforts made by an international consortium of educators and higher education leaders at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to persuade delegates to …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Commitment and Action through Staff Engagement
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Abstract: To achieve cultural change towards sustainability requires more than implementing resource efficiency initiatives. It requires the engagement of those who interact with the campus on a regular basis. This …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental Law Specialization (JD)
- Macquarie University (NSW)
This specialisation will enable students to acquire an advanced understanding of domestic and international environmental law in an integrated and interdisciplinary context. Students will gain specialised legal knowledge and research …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Environmental Law Specialization (LLM)
- Macquarie University (NSW)
This program is available to both lawyers and non-lawyers and is designed to meet the needs of local government personnel and planners, public administrators, business persons, workers in the resource …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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