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Learning regenerative cultures: Indigenous nations in higher education renewal in Australia
- Edith Cowan University
- Deakin University
- The University of Notre Dame Australia (WA)
What is regenerative learning in Australian higher education? This paper addresses the intersecting crises of climate, species loss and injustice; often called a conceptual emergency. We tackle the problem of ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Planetary health pedagogy: Preparing health promoters for 21st-century environmental challenges
- Deakin University
Issue addressed: Multiple interconnected drivers threaten the health and wellbeing of humans and the environment, including biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, rapid urbanisation and displacement. This requires enhanced literacy on ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Keynote: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Deakin University
- Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) (Queensland)
"All humans evolved within complex land based cultures over deep time to develop a brain with a capacity for over 100 trillion neural connections of which we now only use ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Development of the University Food Environment Assessment (Uni-Food) Tool and Process to Benchmark the Healthiness, Equity, and Environmental Sustainability of University Food Environments
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
- Monash University (VIC)
- Deakin University
- Flinders University (South Australia)
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
- University of Wollongong (New South Wales)
- University of Sydney (NSW)
Globally, there is increasing interest in monitoring actions to create healthy, equitable and environmentally sustainable food environments. Currently, there is a lack of detailed tools for monitoring and benchmarking university ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Exploring opportunities to incorporate systems thinking into secondary and tertiary chemistry education through practitioner perspectives
- Deakin University
Recently, the chemistry education community has focused considerable effort on incorporating systems thinking into chemistry education as a means to address global challenges such as sustainability. In this project, a ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Health-Related Education for Sustainability: Public Health Workforce Needs and the Role of Higher Education
- Deakin University
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
Public health practitioners have important roles to play in addressing environmental sustainability imperatives that have an impact on human health. Yet, to date, the extent to which practitioners are willing ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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‘Attuning-with’, affect, and assemblages of relations in a transdisciplinary environmental education
- Deakin University
In these Anthropocene times humans are vulnerable through the effects of socio-ecological crises and are responsible for attending to past, present and future socio-ecological injustices and challenges. The purpose of ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Addressing food insecurity in Australia through education for sustainability
- Deakin University
Within Australia food insecurity affects an estimated 4 million people annually. Health promotion degrees traditionally prepare pre-service graduates to address food insecurity from a social determinants perspective, little consideration of ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Influence of sustainability scholarship on competencies – an empirical evidence
- Deakin University
- La Trobe University (Victoria)
Purpose Curricula is developing from a pure knowledge-based outcome to a more skill-based outcome, with the objective of creating and advancing competencies that meet employer expectations. While the new Sustainable ...
- Posted May 7, 2019
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Education for Sustainable Development: Emerging Themes from Adopters of a Declaration
- Auburn University (AL)
- Deakin University
Universities that sign the Talloires Declaration signify their commitment to education for sustainable development. This research explores whether the signification is a strategic desire to be seen to be doing ...
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Education for Sustainability Policies: Ramifications for Practice
- Monash University (VIC)
- Deakin University
While it is well understood there is an urgent need to address global environmental problems, there is less understanding around how these problems can be addressed. At each level of ...
- Posted Dec. 21, 2018
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Prioritising performance indicators for sustainable construction and development of university campuses using an integrated assessment approach
- Deakin University
Sustainability assessment tools are considered to play a vital role in strategies to reorient universities towards sustainability in a systematic way. However, strategic selections of the main existing assessment tools ...
- Posted Nov. 13, 2018
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Inspiration From the Classroom: A Mixed Method Case Study of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Learning in Higher Education
- Deakin University
Within higher education there is widespread support for developing students’ interdisciplinary skills. Despite this, evidence for, and practice of, cross-faculty interdisciplinary sustainability learning remains in its infancy. Recent articles have ...
- Posted March 22, 2018
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Environmental sustainability in higher education: What do academics think?
- Deakin University
The slow uptake of Education for Sustainability (EfS) curricula in universities has, partly, been attributed to academics’ perceptions that EfS has little relevance within some disciplines. Understanding teaching academics’ attitudes ...
- Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Engaging sustainability good practice within the curriculum design and property portfolio in the Australian higher education sector
- Deakin University
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which universities’ strategic plans affect the level of incorporation of sustainability within the curriculum design and property portfolio ...
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Education for Health & Sustainability
- Deakin University
In 2008 in response to growing concerns about global environment degradation a team from the School of Health & Social Development at Deakin University undertook a scoping study with the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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