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Learning processes for interpersonal competence development in project-based sustainability courses – insights from a comparative international study
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
For professional sustainability work, graduates need to be able to work in teams and collaborate with stakeholders; in other words, they need to have developed interpersonal competence. There is growing ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Putting sustainable campuses into force: Empowering students, staff and academics by the self-efficacy Green Office Model
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose The lack of change structures can be seen as an important reason why sustainability continues to suffer a niche existence in most higher education organisations. This is a problem ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Learning to collaborate while collaborating: advancing interdisciplinary sustainability research
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Interdisciplinary collaboration has become mainstream practice for sustainability researchers. However, interdisciplinary research teams encounter numerous challenges for which they may find themselves under-prepared. In this article, we challenge the often-held ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Skills and knowledge management in higher education: how service learning can contribute to social entrepreneurial competence development
- University of Vechta
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Montpellier Business School (Montpellier)
- ESCE International Business School/École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on how service learning approaches are able to foster social entrepreneurship competences. The aim of the paper is to formulate a ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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How mindfulness training cultivates introspection and competence development for sustainable consumption
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose This paper aims to explore the relationship between introspection and key competencies for sustainable consumption (KCSCs). It investigates whether mindfulness training can cultivate the ability to introspect and stimulate ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Becoming a competent teacher in education for sustainable development: Learning outcomes and processes in teacher education
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
This paper aims to provide a holistic approach to assessing student teachers’ competence development in education for sustainable development (ESD). This is to provide evidence on which teaching and learning ...
- Posted April 17, 2020
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University-linked programmes for sustainable entrepreneurship and regional development: how and with what impact?
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
- Johannes Kepler University Linz (Oberösterreich)
- University of Augsburg (Schwaben)
State universities are increasingly being transformed from institutions with traditional teaching and research responsibilities to have a third, societal role in sustainable regional and economic development. In doing so, universities ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Constellations of Transdisciplinary Practices: A Map and Research Agenda for the Responsible Management Learning Field
- University of Nottingham
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- University of Liverpool
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
- University of Manchester (Lancashire)
The emerging field of responsible management learning is characterized by an urgent need for transdisciplinary practices. We conceptualize constellations of transdisciplinary practices by building up on a social practice perspective ...
- Posted March 5, 2020
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Sustainability in African higher education institutions (HEIs): Shifting the focus from researching the gaps to existing activities
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Research on sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs) is unequally distributed globally. The existing publications on sustainability in HEIs have largely focussed on the Global North. Meanwhile, little is known ...
- Posted March 4, 2020
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Embracing conflicts for interpersonal competence development in project-based sustainability courses
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose Advanced skills in communication, teamwork and stakeholder engagement are widely recognized as important success factors for advancing sustainability. While project-based learning formats claim to advance such skills, there is ...
- Posted March 4, 2020
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The role of green and Sustainability Offices in fostering sustainability efforts at higher education institutions
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Passo Fundo
- University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
Green and Sustainability Offices are special settings which assist initiatives within higher education institutions to coordinate their efforts and work in the field of sustainable development. The set-up of such ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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On how business students’ personal values and sustainability conceptions impact their sustainability management orientation: Evidence from Germany, Indonesia and the USA
- University of St. Gallen
- National University of Singapore
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- University of Sussex (Sussex)
This paper aims to develop and empirically test a framework on how personal values and sustainability conceptions affect students’ sustainability management orientation (SMO). An understanding of this connection gives insight ...
- Posted April 29, 2019
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Building actor-centric transformative capacity through city-university partnerships
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (DF)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Cities worldwide are rising to the challenge of sustainable development, calling for large-scale and fast-paced transformations towards sustainability. Urban sustainability challenges are now being reframed as a lack of capacity ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Seeking sustainability competence and capability in the ESD and HESD literature: an international philosophical hermeneutic analysis
- University of Otago (Otago)
- University of Vechta
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Education for sustainable development (ESD) and higher education for sustainable development (HESD) are complex, multidisciplinary fields of enquiry, drawing on concepts and terms from different disciplines and languages. Although the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2019
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Embedding Higher Education into a Real-World Lab: A Process-Oriented Analysis of Six Transdisciplinary Project Courses
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Since the early days of the emerging research format of Real-world Labs (RwLs), higher education plays a vital role in them. Examples have been presented on teaching activities in RwLs ...
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Transferring Sustainability Solutions across Contexts through City–University Partnerships
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (DF)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
The urgency of climate change and other sustainability challenges makes transferring and scaling solutions between cities a necessity. However, solutions are deeply contextual. To accelerate solution efforts, there is a ...
- Posted Nov. 26, 2018
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Sustainability Competencies, SDGs & Metacognition: Implementation and Assessment
- City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Core learning sustainability competencies have been identified and are guiding course design: system thinking, future/temporal thinking, ethical literacy (values), interpersonal literacy (communication & collaboration), strategic thinking (action), and creativity ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Academic staff development as a catalyst for curriculum change towards education for sustainable development: an output perspective
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- RMIT University
Implementing education for sustainable development (ESD) in university curricula poses a new challenge to the academic system. In recent years many universities have undertaken activities towards its implementation and numerous ...
- Posted June 20, 2018
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Transnational collaboration for sustainability in higher education: Lessons from a systematic review
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
We continue to understand little about how to best design and operate transnational collaborations between universities to advance research and education for sustainability. This article explores general practices in transnational ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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The glocal curriculum: A model for transnational collaboration in higher education for sustainable development
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Transnational collaborations between universities provide an underutilized opportunity to teach sustainability competencies emphasizing the global and local nature of (un)sustainability. This article asks: what kind of curricula and teaching-learning ...
- Posted April 18, 2018
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Sustainability competencies in teacher education: Making teacher education count in everyday school practice
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The need for sustainable development and societal transformation is gaining more and more relevance. Social learning processes will be needed to contribute to real change which is why the 2030 ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Experiments and evidence in sustainability science: A typology
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Experiments are crucial for sustainability science because they allow researchers to produce evidence about the causes of sustainability problems and about the effectiveness of solutions. Many laboratory and field studies ...
- Posted Feb. 28, 2018
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Sustainability Competencies: What are They, how to Address Them in Sustainability Courses, and how to Assess Students' Learning
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
This workshop introduces the following set of sustainability competencies: systems, future, values, and strategic thinking as well as interpersonal competence. The workshop explores how to use these competencies to design ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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A review of transdisciplinary research in sustainability science
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Achieving the goal of sustainability requires understanding and management of unprecedented and interconnected challenges. A transdisciplinary approach is a key component of sustainability science. However, there are considerable barriers to ...
- Posted Aug. 31, 2017
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The Glocal Curriculum: A Practical Guide to Teaching and Learning in an Interconnected World
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
In the 21st century, higher education faces a number of substantial challenges. We need to educate a rapidly increasing number of students, as college and other degrees become a requirement ...
- Posted March 21, 2017
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Towards a Real-world Laboratory: A Transdisciplinary Case Study from Lüneburg
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Real-world laboratories have gained currency in transdisciplinary sustainability research. Establishing real-world laboratories by means of a transdisciplinary process offers promising prospects since it fosters trust among the participants and leads ...
- Posted Feb. 20, 2017
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An experience-based learning framework: Activities for the initial development of sustainability competencies
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose - This paper aims to present an experience-based learning framework that provides a bottom-up, student-centered entrance point for the development of systems thinking, normative and collaborative competencies in sustainability.
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- Posted Feb. 9, 2017
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Utilizing international networks for accelerating research and learning in transformational sustainability science
- University of Tokyo
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Stellenbosch University (Western Cape)
- Lund University
- Maastricht University
- Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (DF)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Arizona State University (AZ)
A promising approach for addressing sustainability problems is to recognize the unique conditions of a particular place, such as problem features and solution capabilities, and adopt and adapt solutions developed ...
- Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Students' Perspectives on an Innovative Approach to Educational Change
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Problem statement: With Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) being an innovative approach to educational change, its principal objective is students’ development of transformation competencies. However, HESD evaluations hardly consider ...
- Posted Jan. 23, 2017
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Future-oriented higher education: Which key competencies should be fostered through university teaching and learning?
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Universities play an important role in shaping the future of the world society in terms of sustainable development by generating new knowledge as well as contributing to the development of ...
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Do sustainability projects stimulate organizational learning in universities?
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the preparation of a sustainability report and a large‐scale energy‐saving campaign with regards to their role for organizational learning ...
- Posted Dec. 16, 2016
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Effective change management, governance and policy for sustainability transformation in higher education
- University of Western Sydney (NSW)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose
Numerous policy announcements and articles have been produced over the past 20 years calling for higher education institutions to give greater focus to social, cultural, economic and environmental sustainability ...
- Posted Nov. 14, 2016
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Sustainable university research and development: inspecting sustainability in higher education research
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Sustainability in higher education is dominated by practical ‘greening the campus’ programs and initiatives. This paper examines sustainable university research and development projects as part of the ‘greening the campus ...
- Posted Nov. 14, 2016
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Making a difference by marking the difference: constituting in-between spaces for sustainability learning
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Transdisciplinarity as a mode of addressing sustainability challenges was a guiding principle in establishing Germany's first Faculty of Sustainability at Leuphana University of Lüneburg in 2010. The different study ...
- Posted June 8, 2016
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Organizational transformation and higher sustainability management education: The case of the MBA Sustainability Management
- Griffith University (Queensland)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the roles of leadership in enabling sustainability transformation of universities and higher sustainability management education. It advocates research into the role of leadership for ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Educating change agents for sustainability – learnings from the first sustainability management master of business administration
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
In recent years, knowledge and capabilities to manage corporate sustainability have become a significant component of different career paths in companies, consultancies, and even in non-profit and public institutions. As ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Centre for Sustainability Management
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) conducts research, teaching and continuous education in the fields of entrepreneurial sustainability management, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social entrepreneurship. With a strong focus ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Minor in Sustainability Science
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The Minor in Sustainability Science provides a comprehensive exploration of the issue of sustainable development and integrates social, cultural, ecological/environmental and economic perspectives through project-based work. It includes inter- ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MBA in Sustainability Management
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Students in this programme learn a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects related to sustainability management and corporate social responsibility (CSR). They also acquire comprehensive general management qualifications and the ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MSc in Global Sustainability Science
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The two-year dual degree program in Global Sustainability Science is jointly administered by Arizona State University and Leuphana University of Lüneburg. It aims to provide an academically well balanced education ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MSc in Sustainability Science
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
A distinctive feature of Leuphana University Lüneburg's inter- and transdisciplinary research-oriented and problem-focused Master's program in Sustainability Sciences is its balance between sustainable natural sciences and sustainable humanities ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Developing key competencies for sustainable development in higher education
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose
To date, little attention has been given to the circumstances in which the process of developing key competencies for sustainable development may take place. The purpose of this paper ...
- Posted May 6, 2016
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Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Vechta
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- RMIT University
The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development gives a systematic and comprehensive overview of existing and upcoming research approaches for higher education for sustainable development. It provides ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Getting an empirical hold of the sustainable university: a comparative analysis of evaluation frameworks across 12 contemporary sustainability assessment tools
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Although it is increasingly recognised that higher education institutions have to play a critical role in the progression towards a sustainable development, the question of what fields and issues universities ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Transdisciplinary research in sustainability science: practice, principles, and challenges
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Stellenbosch University (Western Cape)
- Maastricht University
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Aberystwyth University
There is emerging agreement that sustainability challenges require new ways of knowledge production and decision-making. One key aspect of sustainability science, therefore, is the involvement of actors from outside academia ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Global Classroom Experiment. Challenges and Opportunities for International Education for Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Sustainability problems need to be addressed by concerned citizens, who are able to (1) critically understand the complexity of the world, (2) take action in appropriate ways to address those ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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