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Grounding Sustainability Education in Self-compassion and Radical Hope

  • University of South Dakota (SD)

We define sustainability as asking the questions, “What kind of world do we want?” and “How can we effect change to create that world?” A goal of this framing of ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Out of The Box Sustainability: Green Education Support for Title I Schools

  • Maryville College (TN)

How can underrepresented students, in under-resourced schools in economically distressed communities be supported with their sustainability education efforts? The answer might be found in a box. Classrooms in a Box ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Introduction to Sustainability

  • MacEwan University (AB)

An open educational resource developed as an introduction to sustainability from an interdisciplinary perspective. The book includes an introduction to sustainability, systems thinking, economic, environmental, social, and cultural components of ...

  • Posted Nov. 22, 2023
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Reaching the Rest: Embedding Sustainability in Undergraduate Student Learning

  • University of Toronto (ON)

There exists a substantial literature on sustainability pedagogy. Much of it addresses individual courses, sustainability programs, or the learning competencies that are encouraged. The implicit focus is on students who ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Sustainability as a purpose in life among Dutch higher education students

  • Tampere University of Applied Sciences
  • Hanze University of Applied Sciences

Given the prominence of sustainability in current global crises and the commitment of societies to the Sustainable Development Goals, this mixed methods study ascertains how Dutch higher education students (N ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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What’s In a Name? The Signifiers and Empty Signifiers of Environmental Sustainability Education: Implications for Teacher Education

  • Simon Fraser University (BC)
  • Brock University (ON)

The purpose of this article is to examine how signifiers and empty signifiers may contribute to the mainstreaming of environmental and sustainability education in teacher education. We argue that the ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Embedding Environmental Sustainability Education in a Master of Teaching Program: Reflections on Improvisation and Learning-by-Doing at OISE

  • University of Toronto (ON)

The aim of this paper is to share our story about introducing environmental sustainability education (ESE) in an initial teacher education (ITE) program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Exploring Effective Pedagogies in Environmental and Sustainability Education for Teachers: A Story of New Zealand Pre-Service Teachers’ Learning Experiences

  • University of Auckland

Although teachers have been identified as key change agents in the shift towards a flourishing planet for all, research into effective pedagogies for embedding environmental and sustainability education (ESE) into ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Advancing sustainability leadership by shifting relational ‘agreement structures’: a transformational higher education change program

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Institute for Strategic Clarity (MA)

Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires leaders to navigate different fields and work across public, private, and plural sectors. Higher education (HE) is positioned uniquely to bring disciplines together ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Sustainability Initiatives for Management Education: A Roadmap for Institutional Integration

  • University of San Francisco (CA)
  • Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation (DC)
  • Sustainable Capacity International Institute

What are the best ways to integrate sustainability concepts into higher education institutions and management education? Sustainability, global responsibility, and social innovations are increasingly accepted worldwide as part of a ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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The importance of the Sustainable Development Goals to students of environmental and sustainability studies—a global survey in 41 countries

  • Goethe University Frankfurt

To fight the global problems of humanity, the United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve these goals, it is necessary that future decision-makers and stakeholders in ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Defining Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions

  • Loyola University Maryland (MD)
  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)

People interact with each other based on shared meaning. In the absence of shared meaning, organizations fail to identify and achieve goals. Focus is generally placed on how to engage ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Being bird and sensory learning activities: Multimodal and arts-based pedagogies in the ‘Anthropocene’

  • University of Gothenburg

There is little room left for doubt or even debate at the severity of the ecological, indeed planetary crises that we find ourselves in during this period coined the Anthropocene ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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On sustainability and higher education: Towards an affirmative ethics

  • North-West University (North West)
  • University of KwaZulu-Natal

Sustainable development has been the dominant focus in sustainability discourses over the past three decades. In 2015, the United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development as ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Advancing Sustainability Education through a Cross-Disciplinary Online Course: Sustainability and Human Rights in the Business World

  • Florida State University (FL)

Abstract: The increasing threats of climate change, resource depletion, and human rights crises have led us to realize the impendent need for advancing sustainable development education and to reevaluate the ...

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Earth Day Summit at Franklin University Switzerland

  • Franklin University Switzerland (Ticino)

The Green Office Sustainability Programs at Franklin University Switzerland hosted an Earth Day Summit showcasing multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to sustainability. By bringing together a wide diversity of academic and ...

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Saint Joseph's College of Maine 2022 SCI

  • Saint Joseph's College - ME (ME)

Leadership for Sustainable Communities - In 2021, Saint Joseph's College - ME committed to institution-wide transformation and asked faculty to consider all courses through the lens of "sustainable communities” and a ...

Education for sustainable development in Spanish higher education: an assessment of sustainability competencies in engineering and education degrees

  • Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
  • University of Cadiz
  • Universidad Pablo de Olavide

This paper aims to present a methodology for analysing the extent to which students of a university degree perceive that they have received a good education for sustainable development (ESD ...

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 ...

Discovering Sustainability in New York City: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Teaching in Urban Institutions

  • Empire State College (NY)

Ecological learning is enriched when students can apply course content to their own communities and gain an understanding and experience for deploying sustainable practices. Such merging of content, application, and ...

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 ...

Enhancing sustainability education in the accounting curriculum: an effective learning strategy

  • University of Waikato

This paper aims to examine the embedding of sustainability courses in the accounting curriculum by using the Delta Business School in New Zealand as an example. The focus of this ...

Circular economy, cradle to cradle and zero waste frameworks in teacher education for sustainability

  • Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences

Sustainability is a major concern in education policies. This paper aims to describe how alternative economic education including concepts of the circular economy (CE), cradle to cradle (C2C) and zero ...

Metaphorical perceptions of academicians in administrative positions in higher education regarding the concept of sustainability

  • İstanbul 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi

The aim of this study, which was in a qualitative research design, is to reveal the perceptions of education administrators working in higher education institutions about the concept of sustainability ...

Engaging students in education for sustainable development: The benefits of active learning, reflective practices and flipped classroom pedagogies

  • University of Edinburgh

Effective Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) requires appropriate pedagogies that engage learners in transformative learning. These pedagogies include reflective and active learning, involving experiential, collaborative and learner-centred activities. This paper ...

The role of community-based learning in teaching about industrial ecology and sustainability in the context of engineering education: A case study from the field

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)

Industrial ecology and sustainability education have evolved over time, as this relatively new discipline has emerged and has been refined. Courses engaging with these topics are often found in engineering ...

Lessons learned from Covid-19: Why sustainability education needs to become political

  • University of Zurich

Research from various disciplines indicates that the human endeavour has shifted the earth into a new geologic epoch: the Anthropocene, in which we are stressing several planetary boundaries. Many political ...

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