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The Pedagogy of Sustainability: Applying Transformative Learning Theory
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Most faculty members are not taught to be teachers. While much of sustainability education research focuses on appropriate teaching methods, faculty looking to integrate sustainability into their classrooms tend to ...
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Helping Others Understand Sustainability: Tools for Curriculum Development and Instructional Design
- Manhattanville College (NY)
- Webster University (MO)
All too often, efforts to advocate for the integration of sustainability into curriculum development and instructional design in higher education are thwarted by general confusion about just what sustainability is ...
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Transformation, sustainability and HE. What's really going on?
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
Education for Sustainability (EfS) is an agenda of growing significance in UK Higher Education (HE) and internationally. To date, the focus in HE has been on content rather than process ...
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UCLA Action Research Teams: A Model for Collaborative Student-Staff-Faculty Research to Improve Campus Sustainability
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
The UCLA Action Research Team (ART) program is part of the student-led Education for Sustainable Living Program (ESLP) offered for credit through the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. The ...
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From Faculty Colleges to General Education: Sustainability in the Curriculum at UW Oshkosh
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is a comprehensive, master's-level public university that has made great strides in infusing sustainability into the curriculum over the past 5 years. Our campus ...
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Developing an Authentic Undergraduate Sustainability Experience: Connecting Curriculum and Campus
- Portland State University (OR)
While initiatives to "green" campuses have increased within campus operations, curricular innovations for sustainability have lagged behind. [University] has made integration of sustainability across its academic programs an institutional priority ...
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Student-Faculty Synergy & Institutional Transformation: A Story of Sustainability
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (IL)
This presentation will discuss the evolving, ongoing professional relationship between a student and a sociology professor that has led to both personal transformation and action, and which, over the course ...
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Education for Sustainable Development: Comparing Institutional Initiatives
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
The integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into the curriculum is a goal of many universities. This session will explore initiatives at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, and ...
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Building A Sustainability Pathway In Biology
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The University of British Columbia is committed to providing all students the opportunity to study sustainability during their undergraduate education. Implementation requires initiative from within departments and programs as well ...
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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 ...
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Sustainability Curriculum Development: Overcoming Challenges in the National Autonomous University of Mexico
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DF)
The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) is the oldest academic institution in Mexico and has developed as a highly recognized research and education institution with a long history of ...
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Engaging Students, Faculty, and the Curriculum in Research and Creative Activities for Sustainability
- Portland State University (OR)
As a result of national initiatives like the ACU's President's Climate Commitment, higher education is working hard to promote sustainability. Yet, while institutions "green" their campus operations, transformations ...
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Synergy in a Faculty Learning Community: Sustainability & Pedagogy at Cal State East Bay
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
Having joined AASHE in fall 2011, Cal State East Bay established its first Faculty Learning Community (FLC) to focus on Sustainability & Pedagogy during the winter and spring quarters of ...
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Collaborative Research as a Pedagogical Tool: Using Surveys and Interviews as a Way to Teach Sustainability on Campus.
- Emory & Henry College (VA)
Recognizing that campus culture is a primary driving force of energy consumption on a college campus, Emory & Henry College sought to better understand what students and faculty know about ...
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Infusing and Integrating Sustainability Across Research and Teaching
- Western Michigan University (MI)
A public university that is learner-centered and research oriented needs support in its mission and sustainability commitments. Since 2008, our University has made major strides toward building a campus culture ...
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Academic Working Groups - Infusing Sustainability into Curriculum
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
Faculty members and other curriculum developers will converge to learn about the recently formed academic working groups, and existing group members will report out on their progress.
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Exploring Faculty Conceptualizations of Sustainable Universities Through the Use of Q Methodology
- Dalhousie University (NS)
The Sustainability in Higher Education literature reveals the highly subjective nature of thinking about what it means to be a sustainable university. We used Q methodology to explore how faculty ...
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Teaching Business Sustainability Through Student-Led Corporate Sustainability Audits
- Ithaca College (NY)
Universities and colleges around the globe are beginning to offer more courses to teach students about environmentally responsible business practices. These courses often offer important theoretical foundations for students who ...
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Learning Outcomes for Teaching Sustainability in the Humanities
- Luther College (IA)
This paper explores the question of what we expect students to know and be able to do as the result of successful education for sustainability. I start by defending the ...
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Universal Design and Sustainability: an Appealing Synchronicity of Concepts for the 21st Century Campus Accessibility Audit.
- McGill University (QC)
Triggering organic change in Higher Education institutions towards widened access and the implementation of Universal, on the one hand, or sustainable development, on the other, is an arduous task which ...
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Campus Environmental Caucus: Connecting Students, Faculty and Staff Across Disciplines and Departments
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
The mission of the Environmental Caucus is to facilitate creative and strategic communication across campus to advance the institutional commitment to sustainability and to promote education, research, and collaboration on ...
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UBC Solar: An Example of Student Directed Faculty-Student Research Partnerships
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The research interests of faculty members direct most of the academic output in university environments. While there are opportunities for students to suggest research topics, these are largely limited to ...
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More Than Just a "Green Building": How the Green Quad Has Become a Leader in Faculty, Staff, Student, and Community Collaboration
- Clemson University (SC)
The University of South Carolina's Green Quad was one of the early pioneers that raised everyone's awareness regarding sustainability and green issues in the Southeast. Today, the Green ...
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Sustainability as Deep Learning: the University of the District of Columbia's Sustainable City Faculty Fellowship
- University of the District of Columbia (DC)
The University of the District of Columbia's Sustainable City Faculty Fellowship (SCFF) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary professional development program designed to integrate sustainability into curriculum throughout UDC's schools ...
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Teacher Educators Luncheon
- Webster University (MO)
Teacher Educators are invited to come together to discuss the status of sustainability in higher education, how to move it forward, and who to work with.
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Introduction to Sustainable Development: Creative Teaching Techniques to Connect, Engage, and Enlighten
- Appalachian State University (NC)
How do you introduce and explicate the complicated and interdisciplinary concept of Sustainable Development? This interactive presentation will explore a variety of ways to creatively and effectively teach the Gordian ...
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Design Education in the Age of Ecology
- Philadelphia University (PA)
Since the year 2000, our society has faced an attack on our soil (911), a devastating hurricane (Katrina), Fossil fuel price escalation ($4/gallon), an unprecedented oil spill in the ...
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Enabling faculty to choose to integrate environmental stewardship across the curriculum: A faculty development case study
- James Madison University (VA)
Effective faculty development programs are essential to advancing education for sustainability (EfS) initiatives, "Any efforts to increase the scale of sustainability education will rest in the hands of the faculty ...
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Living and Learning Sustainability: Pedagogy and Praxis in Sustainability Education
- Prescott College (AZ)
The presenter offers a summary of her recent dissertation in Sustainability Education within which she develops a critical pedagogy of sustainability and promotes its application in higher education. This pedagogy ...
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Graduate student workshop on sustainability across the curriculum
- University of Florida (FL)
Based on the Ponderosa and Piedmont Projects the first Prairie Project workshop was held in the summer of 2010. This two-day workshop drew together thirty faculty members from diverse fields ...
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Teaching Ecological Citizenship within the Sustainability Curriculum
- Ohio University (OH)
Implicit in the discourse on sustainability is the need for ecological citizenship. Universities engaged in broad sustainability initiatives are well positioned to foster ecological citizenship norms through example and experiential ...
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Current Drivers and Barriers for the Implementation of Sustainability in Germanys Higher Education System
- University of Vechta
Sustainability was meant to be implemented into all levels of the educational system in Germany within the UN-Decade 'Education for Sustainable Development', driven by the governmental level with research programs ...
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Realizing sustainability across curricula and campuses, lessons from George Mason University in Northern Virginia
- George Mason University (VA)
In 2007, the university leaped into sustainability initiatives with a commitment to climate neutrality, hiring of full-time energy and sustainability managers, and creation of "sustainability across the curriculum" faculty workshops ...
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Using the 'Faculty Sustainability Ambassador' Model to Catalyze Sustainability Curriculum Initiatives
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This panel discussion will introduce the 'Faculty Sustainability Ambassador' model as an effective strategy for catalyzing campus-wide sustainability curriculum initiatives. In this case, a small internal grant provided stipends to ...
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Infusing Sustainability Through the General Education Curriculum
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
As pressures on global and local systems mount, and as population and consumption increase world-wide, the imperative for sustainability education gains increasing urgency. More than educating those interested in, or ...
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Academic Infusion of Sustainability: Leading Faculty and Curriculum Developers Share Best Practices
- Ball State University (IN)
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
Training emerging professionals about sustainability concepts needs to happen both in and out of the classroom in order to meet ambitious national workforce education and training goals. The process of ...
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AASHE Curriculum Convocation
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
Advancing sustainability education through the development of dynamic and academically rich curriculum is a strong priority of AASHE. What is needed is curriculum that prepares learners for living in a ...
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A Five Year Retrospective of Teaching Sustainable Building Design and Construction
- Appalachian State University (NC)
This presentation will focus on the curriculum development and implementation of an undergraduate and graduate level course titled Sustainable Building Design and Construction. The focus of this course is on ...
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Faculty Development for Sustainability Across the Curriculum
- Calvin University (MI)
The five panelists, faculty at a MidWest comprehensive liberal arts college, were participants in a cross-disciplinary workshop enacting the idea of sustainability across the curriculum. The workshop, which grew out ...
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The Prairie Project: Place-Based Faculty Development for Global Sustainability Education
- Central College (IA)
Today there is an urgent need to provide global sustainability education to all college students through a curriculum that is integrative, transdisciplinary, and addresses all three dimensions of sustainability: ecological ...
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A Pedagogical Model for Successful Integration of Sustainability Across the Undergraduate Curriculum
- Creative Change Educational Solutions (MI)
Think sustainability in the curriculum, and you may think "science"--arguably the "obvious" disciplinary home. But the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability in higher education offers faculty from across the curriculum ...
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Ecological Economics 101: Integrating Core Principles into Science and Social Science Courses
- Creative Change Educational Solutions (MI)
For sustainability to take hold across the curriculum, educators must gain the skills to integrate ecological economics concepts into science and humanities courses. Yet the disciplinary boundaries of secondary and ...
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Gannon University's Campus Greening "Curriculum Auction Catalog"
- Gannon University (PA)
The Campus Greening "Curriculum Auction Catalog"" is an annual publication, which is aimed at faculty across a wide variety of academic disciplines. It contains descriptions of approximately 30 campus greening ...
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Illinois Green Economy Network- Greening Your Curriculum Faculty Development Program
- Green Economy (MA)
This panel presentation will address the role of higher education in sustainability and green economy education. In 2010, in partnership with 14 Illinois community colleges, the Illinois Green Economy Network ...
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Mission-Driven Sustainability Studies for the Small College
- La Roche College (PA)
La Roche College, a small, private, Catholic institution in the north hills of Pittsburgh, has recently undertaken steps to enhance the sustainability of its physical operations: the newly created "La ...
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10 Strategies for Sustainability Focused Faculty Development
- Luther College (IA)
Even on campuses with great sustainability initiatives, curriculum is often the missing piece or the one area that lags behind operations and student life. Working with faculty on curriculum changes ...
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Cultivating Sustainability: Pedagogy for Engagement, Action and Transformation
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Based upon behavior change research, sustainability pedagogy theory and in-the-field studies, the Northwest Earth Institute (NWEI) discussion course model is a unique pedagogical tool for teaching basic sustainability themes and ...
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Sustainable State: A Platform for Academic Transformation
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Sustainable State is a new educational model designed to provide both an online and face-to-face platform for interdisciplinary exchange and academic collaboration, centered around transformational sustainability education. The mechanics of ...
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Teaching to transform: Proven and practical ways to design sustainability courses that inspire
- Portland State University (OR)
This workshop will lead faculty and other sustainability educators through the practical steps of using the Burns Model of Sustainability Pedagogy (Burns, 2009; Burns, 2010) to design or re-design courses ...
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Introduction to Sustainability Studies: Design and Implementation of a Multidisciplinary Course
- Rider University (NJ)
Like many schools, our institution is actively engaged in integrating sustainability across the curriculum. However, because we have also instituted a minor in sustainability studies, we have developed and are ...
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