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AASHE Award Winner Webinar – Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
Indigenous educator Gregory Cajete articulates the motivations and questions that drive the presenter’s research. For Cajete, effective education entails ‘finding heart,’ an active process within and beyond the person ...
- Posted Sept. 14, 2017
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Love and social justice in learning for sustainability
- University of Edinburgh
The planet seems to be heading into an ecological catastrophe, in which the earth will become uninhabitable for many species, including human beings. At the same time we humans are ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Analysing the inclusion of stand-alone courses on ethics and CSR: A study of the MBA curricula of the Financial Times top-ranked business schools
Purpose: This paper aims to examine how the Master of Business Administration (MBA) curricula of top-ranked business schools are offering stand-alone courses on ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR). To ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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Critical Thinking and Normative Competencies for Sustainability Science Education
- Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)
In this paper, we extend the competencies framework of education for sustainability development (ESD) to argue that critical thinking should be taught as a core competency and that normative dialogue ...
- Posted May 3, 2017
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Ethics in Higher Education: Values-driven Leaders for the Future
The values and virtues practised in universities heavily influence the leaders of the future, but outside the limelight of excelling education institutions there is a concerning violation of good practises ...
- Posted Feb. 14, 2017
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Sustainability Programming is an Ethical Obligation for Higher Education in the Environmental Century
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Development of a sustainable relationship with our natural resources is an imperative for any meaningful quality of life as climate change poses the ultimate test of our adaptability as a ...
- Posted July 7, 2016
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Ethical internationalisation in higher education: interfaces with international development and sustainability
- University of Alberta (AB)
- University of British Columbia (BC)
This analysis is situated within a larger project focusing on ethics and internationalization in higher education. Internationalization is occurring at a fast pace and encompasses overlapping and contradictory aims largely ...
- Posted July 5, 2016
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For the Planet Leadership Series: Building Sustainability Leadership in Higher Education
- University of North Texas (TX)
The “For the Planet Leadership Series” is a five-week professional development course planned, researched, and taught by Senior Alyssa Wolverton at the University of North Texas. Her goal was to ...
- Posted June 6, 2016
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Smokey's Pantry: A FISH Hospitality Pantry
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Erica Davis, a senior at the University of Tennessee, spearheaded a food recovery project called Smokey’s Pantry. This project provided groceries recovered from various sources and distributed them to ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Finding Heart: Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
In his landmark book Native Science (2000), indigenous educator Gregory Cajete eloquently articulates the motivations and questions that drive this study. For Cajete, effective education of our time entails “finding ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Education: Shifting the Worldview
- DePaul University (IL)
- Temple University (PA)
While the topics of business ethics and social responsibility education have received much attention in scholarly and pedagogical literature (although less in the pedagogical literature), the authors argue that the ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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Educating ethical designers
In recent years, there has been an increased focus on bringing sustainability into design education. The focus of such education, however, mainly concerns providing design students with the knowledge and ...
- Posted April 28, 2016
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Managers’ Views on Ethics Education in Business Schools: An Empirical Study
- California Lutheran University (CA)
- Reykjavik University (Reykjavik)
More and more scholars are expressing their apprehensions regarding the current state of management education. The increased number of corporate scandals has fueled their concerns that training students to have ...
- Posted April 26, 2016
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Food, Ethics and Sustainability Discussion Activity
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education.
This activity takes participants through a process of exploring sustainability
through small group discussion and personal reflection designed ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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The Need for Social Ethics in Interdisciplinary Environmental Science Graduate Programs: Results from a Nation-Wide Survey in the United States
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Oregon State University (OR)
Professionals in environmental fields engage with complex problems that involve stakeholders with different values, different forms of knowledge, and contentious decisions. There is increasing recognition of the need to train ...
- Posted April 3, 2016
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Sustainable and Ethical Purchasing: Fair Trade Procurement Policies and Practices
- Fair Trade Colleges & Universities
Over the last two years Fair Trade Colleges & Universities has developed and piloted policies to help institutions purchase sustainable and responsible goods. Leveraging the purchasing power of higher education ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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More Than Fair: Developing Ethical & Sustainable Guidelines for Purchasing
- Oregon State University (OR)
Over the past two years, multiple organizations within Oregon State University have collaborated to develop a set of priorities and guidelines aimed at increasing ethical purchasing practices on campus. This ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fashion Forward - an ethical and environmental look at the fashion industry
- Western Sydney University (NSW)
Do you know where that item of clothing you are wearing comes from? Is it made from synthetic or natural fibres? Did you purchase it secondhand? Did you think of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Power of Ethical Sourcing and Ecolabels: Perspectives from Fair Trade USA, Marine Stewardship Council and the Forest Steward
- Fair Trade Colleges & Universities
With thousands of products on shelves and hundreds of ecolabels, making purchasing decisions that provide positive benefits to the environment and society can be confusing for professionals and consumers. The ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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What Predicts Students’ Perceptions of Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility?
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (AB)
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) continues to become increasingly important in management practice as the global business community is embracing CSR as an important link to positive corporate identity and reputation ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Navigating Bureaucracy to Teach for a Better World: Sustainability and Ethics
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Integrating sustainability-content throughout the curriculum remains perhaps the key challenge of higher education going forward, as our ability to balance the needs of society with the available resources of the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Connecting the Leave No Trace Outdoor Ethic and Campus Sustainability
- Auburn University (AL)
This session's objective is to explore the connection between the Leave No Trace (LNT) ethic and campus sustainability. The LNT ethic is dedicated to the responsible enjoyment and active ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
Rachel Carson’s work is the inspiration for the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education. Her contribution to human understanding of the environment is unparalleled. Silent Spring has been called ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Center for Environmental Law & Policy
- Yale University (CT)
The Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, a joint undertaking between the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Yale Law School, seeks to incorporate fresh thinking ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Certificate in Socially, Environmentally, & Ethically Responsible (SEER) Business Practice
- Pepperdine University (CA)
The Pepperdine certificate in Socially, Environmentally, and Ethically Responsible (SEER) Business Strategy, led by Pepperdine Graziadio faculty, Rob Bikel, allows students to complement their MBA degree with courses and activities ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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MS in Environmental Policy & Management
- American Public University System (Charlestown, WV) (WV)
This degree provides the student with curriculum and research opportunities in one of the world's most significant science and policy issues: the environment. Students will study ecosystems management, the ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Engaging Catholic Colleges and Universities with Sustainability as a Moral Issue
- University of Notre Dame (IN)
In October 2009, we hosted "Renewing the Campus: Sustainability and the Catholic University", the first conference dedicated to enhancing understanding, activism, and cooperation among Catholic universities in the area of ...
- Posted June 28, 2010
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