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Are the sustainability-oriented skills and competencies of business graduates meeting or missing employers’ needs? Perspectives of regional employers
- James Cook University (Queensland)
In the Anthropocene, universities play a role in developing students’ sustainability literacy and capacity to solve socio-ecological challenges. The objective of this study is to identify the generic and sustainability-oriented ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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What Ought to Be Done to Promote Education for Sustainability in Teacher Education?
- James Cook University (Queensland)
Teachers are major players in the development of future citizens who have the knowledge, understanding, skills, values and dispositions to respond to existential threats such as climate change, land degradation ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Student perceptions and trust of sustainability information
- James Cook University (Queensland)
- University of Canberra
The purpose of this paper is to report student attitudes and beliefs towards climate change adaptation and sustainability-related behaviours.
- Posted April 17, 2020
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Barriers to innovation and sustainability at universities around the world
- University of Passo Fundo
- University of São Paulo
- James Cook University (Queensland)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Nottingham
- University of Michigan (MI)
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
This paper explores the link between innovation and sustainability in the context of higher education, with the purpose of investigating the fundamental barriers for innovation and sustainable development in universities ...
- Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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RESPONDING TO THE ECOLOGICAL CRISIS: TRANSFORMATIVE PATHWAYS FOR SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION
- James Cook University (Queensland)
The nature and extent of the current ecological crisis raises the question: Does social work have a contribution to make in addressing the social and environmental changes required if we ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2017
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Sustaining education for sustainability in turbulent times
- James Cook University (Queensland)
A study of two schools in northern Australia demonstrated the impact on Education for Sustainability (EfS) initiatives of a disruptive policy environment set in motion by neoliberal reforms focused on ...
- Posted May 8, 2017
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Approaches to embedding sustainability in teacher education: A synthesis of the literature
- Queensland University of Technology
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This study investigated how teacher education academics embed sustainability education in learning and teaching, using a systematic literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles. A taxonomy of four distinctive approaches was ...
- Posted April 24, 2017
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Graduate Certificate of Education for Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This qualification develops skills and knowledge in sustainability and enables students to communicate these skills in educational settings. This course is relevant to teachers, trainers, school leaders, administrators, and others ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Graduate Certificate of Science in Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This program requires 4 courses related to sustainability science.
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Bachelor of Environmental Practice
- James Cook University (Queensland)
This program is designed to empower students to solve sustainability challenges. It provides a broad understanding of the operative and management interactions between the biological, physical, social, economic and political ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Master of Education in Sustainability
- James Cook University (Queensland)
The Sustainability major in the Master of Education program develops enables students to communicate and innovate sustainability education programs in formal and informal education. This program is relevant to teachers ...
- Posted Oct. 31, 2016
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Pre-Service Teachers and Climate Change: A Stalemate?
- James Cook University (Queensland)
Findings from the second phase of a study of pre-service teachers’ attitudes to environmental education and knowledge of climate change are reported in this paper. A sample of 87 pre-service ...
- Posted June 20, 2016
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Sustainability in the Real Property Law Curriculum: Why and How
- James Cook University (Queensland)
Traditionally considered the preserve of environmental law, for the lawyer and the legal academic, sustainability does not immediately come to mind in considering the subjects of the core curriculum. Yet ...
- Posted May 3, 2016
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Bachelor of Business and Environmental Science
- James Cook University (Queensland)
JCU's Bachelor of Business and Environmental Science teaches students how to manage the delicate balance between profit, policy and conservation. Students develop skills that allow them to integrate and ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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