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Teaching Sustainability Education through the Lens of Leadership Education
- Colorado State University (CO)
Sustainability education is a broad topic that crosses many disciplines. While some institutions offer sustainability-specific degree programs others have placed focus on implementing sustainability education within their current programs. Since ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Only Connect: Learning English and American Culture Through Service Learning and the SDGs
- Portland State University (OR)
This session will present various ways in which different ESL instructors have come together to engage their students in sustainability work, both inside and outside the classroom. The 17 SDGs ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Vesting Faculty to Make an Impact: In-House Training for Sustainability & Climate Consequence
- Delta College (MI)
The pathway to empowering students with knowledge of sustainability, climate resiliency, and climate adaptation begins with passionate, knowledgeable faculty embedding these concepts into classes across the curriculum, service learning, study ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Sustainability Curriculum in UK University Sustainability Reports
- Oxford Brookes University
One of the major barriers to incorporating sustainability in the higher education (HE) curriculum is its absence from the university sustainability strategy, the annual reflection of which is the annual ...
- Posted Nov. 6, 2019
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Sustainability in Higher Education
- Elsevier
Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information ...
- Posted Nov. 6, 2019
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Higher education teachers’ conceptions of sustainable development: implications for interdisciplinary pluralistic teaching
- University of Turku
An interdisciplinary and pluralistic approach to teaching and learning has been proposed as one solution to the lack of a consensus definition of sustainable development (SD). For teachers, such an ...
- Posted Sept. 30, 2019
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Understanding Sustainability Through Transdisciplinary Narratives
- University of Michigan (MI)
- AASHE (MA)
The concepts of “more” and “better” drive social narratives about they kind of world we’re creating: a future of more stuff and strife, or one based on a better ...
- Posted Aug. 1, 2019
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Sustainable Development Goals and sustainability teaching at universities: Falling behind or getting ahead of the pack?
- Nottingham Trent University
- University of Beira Interior
- University of Passo Fundo
- Bournemouth University (Dorset)
- University of Aveiro
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- Universidade Aberta
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
The fact that the world community is engaged in pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) means that an unrivalled opportunity is provided to universities, both in respect of teaching and ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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Distributed leadership: Building capacity for interdisciplinary climate change teaching at four universities
- UNSW Sydney (NSW)
- University of Wollongong (New South Wales)
- Murdoch University (Western Australia)
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
Purpose – Interdisciplinary approaches to climate change teaching are well justified and arise from the complexity of climate change challenges and the integrated problem-solving responses they demand. These approaches require academic ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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Teacher Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship
- Liverpool Hope University
This book examines how educators internationally can better understand the role of education as a public good designed to nurture peace, tolerance, sustainable livelihoods and human fulfillment.
Bringing together empirical ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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Sustainability and Business Education
- Babson College (MA)
This document was created as an AASHE project to: Highlight the value of sustainability in the business field Encourage increased presence of sustainability in business education
- Posted June 13, 2019
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An Assessment of Teaching and Learning about Sustainability Across the Higher Education Curriculum
- Columbia University (NY)
Although the majority of scientists agree that we are facing unprecedented climate crises, higher education’s engagement with environmental and sustainability problems is lacking. While the role of human behavior ...
- Posted May 15, 2019
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Teaching Climate Science to Increase Understanding & Receptivity
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Only about half of Americans are convinced that human activity is the major cause of climate change. This statistic highlights the increased need for high-quality climate science education but also ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Education for Sustainability in Education: A Focus on Pedagogical Approaches for Effective Teaching and Learning
- Michigan State University (MI)
Teaching and learning for sustainable development have become an important area of educational endeavour that educators are responsible for. Given the need to educate citizens about sustainable ways of living ...
- Posted May 10, 2019
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Sustainability in finance teaching: evaluating levels of reflection and transformative learning
- Mackenzie Presbyterian University
Purpose The purpose of this study is to argue for the need for more critical-reflective teaching-learning experiences in finance teaching, capable of promoting changes in students’ frames of reference toward ...
- Posted May 10, 2019
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Prepared to Teach for Sustainable Development? Student Teachers’ Beliefs in Their Ability to Teach for Sustainable Development
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
The importance of embedding education for sustainable development has been emphasised over many years. At the same time, there has been a massive call for initial teacher education to provide ...
- Posted May 7, 2019
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Transforming higher education through trickster-style teaching
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
This article utilizes theoretical inquiry to examine the need for transforming conventional, industrial-scientific, higher education curriculum and pedagogy. In recognition of the scale and urgency of the changes necessary to ...
- Posted May 6, 2019
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Teaching Sustainability in an Accounting Classroom
- Harding University Main Campus (AR)
- Indiana University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Sustainability has become an important issue in the world today for both business and society. As accounting faculty members, it is important that we add aspects of sustainability into accounting ...
- Posted May 6, 2019
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Development of a Measurement Tool for Sustainable Development Awareness
- Necmettin Erbakan University
Raising the sustainable development awareness is of great importance for the continuation of the world's livability. Teachers have a great responsibility in order for individuals to make sustainable development ...
- Posted April 30, 2019
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A sustainable consumption teaching review: From building competencies to transformative learning
- University of East Anglia
Sustainable consumption (SC) is a growing area of research, practice and policy-making that has been gaining momentum in teaching programs among higher education institutions. Understanding how, in what way, and ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Educating science teachers for sustainability: questions, contradictions and possibilities for rethinking learning and pedagogy
- Université du Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- Université de Montréal (QC)
In this review, we explore what educating science teachers for sustainability implies according to the 23 book chapters and many sampled teacher education and science methods courses in the edited ...
- Posted Nov. 29, 2018
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Understanding Finnish student craft teachers’ conceptions of sustainability
- University of Eastern Finland
This study aims to explore student craft teachers’ conceptions of sustainable craft. This is an important issue because the Finnish National Curriculum of Basic Education emphasises sustainability, especially in craft ...
- Posted Nov. 26, 2018
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Digital Tools to Enhance Integrative Learning and Global Perspectives in Sustainability Studies
- Muhlenberg College (PA)
Teaching Sustainability Studies with a focus on problem solving and from a global perspective can be limited by confinement to a classroom at a single location. Here, I show how ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Multimodal Texts as a Window to Sustainability
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
Within the four walls of the elementary (K-5) and secondary content area (6-12) classroom, the limited experiential realm of education can be expanded through the strategic use of sustainability texts ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Teaching Sustainability Through Non-Traditional Learning Methods
- Colorado State University (CO)
To address complex global challenges, such as 'climate change, poverty, violent conflicts, and overuse of natural resources' (Brundiers & Wiek, 2011, p. 108) a growing number of institutions of higher ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Linking Teaching Practices to Students' Pro-Sustainability Behaviors
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
Broadly integrating sustainability throughout higher education curriculum is a common goal among instructors, scholars, and the AASHE community. But while sustainability knowledge is good in its own right, research has ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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147 Practical Tips for Teaching Sustainability: Connecting the Environment, the Economy, and Society 2nd Edition
- Colorado State University (CO)
Forewords by David Orr and by AASHE's inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dr. Anthony “Tony” Cortese in recognition for his tremendous impact in advancing sustainability in higher education.
While ...
- Posted Sept. 19, 2018
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Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice
- Dominican University of California (CA)
- New Mexico State University (NM)
- The University of New Mexico (NM)
Given the urgency of environmental problems, how we communicate about our ecological relations is crucial. Environmental Communication Pedagogy and Practice is concerned with ways to help learners effectively navigate and ...
- Posted Sept. 19, 2018
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Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Beira Interior
- University of Passo Fundo
- Manchester Metropolitan University
Integrative Approaches to Sustainable Development at University Level compares various colleges around the world, focusing on sustainable development. This book is intended for those who are either practitioners or researchers ...
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Teaching Sustainability / Teaching Sustainably
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
Over the coming decades, every academic discipline will have to respond to the paradigm of more sustainable life practices because students will be living in a world challenged by competition ...
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Sustainability, the Next Generation Science Standards, and the Education of Future Teachers
- Central Washington University (WA)
- Columbia University (NY)
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) emphasize how human activities affect the Earth and how Earth processes impact humans, placing the concept of sustainability within the Earth and Space Sciences ...
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Sustainable Nation Podcast
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
This podcast releases three new episodes every week, consisting of interviews with global sustainability leaders in higher education, business and government. This can be a great resource for any sustainability ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Learning for Biosphere Security in a Crowded, Warming World
- University of Northern British Columbia (BC)
Among all the pressing needs for educational innovations that humanity faces today, arguably the most imperative is the need to elicit the learner's active involvement in a 'Great Transition ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Teaching sustainable entrepreneurship to engineering students: the case of Delft University of Technology
- Technische Universiteit Delft
This article outlines the increasing importance of the education of engineering students on sustainability, social aspects of technology and entrepreneurship. The authors demonstrate how sustainability education is possible and outlines ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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PCC Earth (Extended) Week events across the district!
- Portland Community College (OR)
A look at a couple great moments from this years extended Earth Week! There were so many events, service projects, and good times to choose from that I'm going ...
- Posted April 30, 2018
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Teaching Sustainability Using an Active Learning Constructivist Approach: Discipline-Specific Case Studies in Higher Education
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
In this paper we present our rationale for using an active learning constructivist approach to teach sustainability-related topics in a higher education. To push the boundaries of ecological literacy, we ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Learning and teaching sustainability: The contribution of Ecological Footprint calculators
- Global Footprint Network (CA)
- Cardiff University
- University of Siena
Consumption habits imply responsibility. Progressive awareness of the scale of materials, energy, goods and services consumed on a daily basis and knowledge of the implications of consumption choices are prerequisites ...
- Posted March 22, 2018
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Educating for Sustainability Webinar Series - The Why and How of Transformative Learning
- AASHE (MA)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
This webinar will provide the context around why transformative learning and deeper engagement in sustainability issues are important. The ways we learn and engage are critical to fostering the skills ...
- Posted March 20, 2018
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Learning Our Way Toward Resilience
- Island Press (DC)
- Post Carbon Institute (OR)
This is an excerpt of Chapter 14 from The Community Resilience Reader: Essential Resources for an Era of Upheaval. Resilience education is about building our individual and community capacities to ...
- Posted Nov. 1, 2017
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Engaging Stakeholders in Education for Sustainable Development at University Level
This book discusses the role of ESD stakeholders at university level, involving civil society and the private sector and public sectors (including local, national and intergovernmental bodies). In particular, it ...
- Posted Nov. 1, 2017
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Sustainability in Science Museums
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Sustainability in Science Museums program, one of the Rob and Melani Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives at Arizona State University, invites professionals from science museums and centers from around the ...
- Posted Oct. 14, 2017
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Core Concepts for Teaching Sustainability: Using “Tips” to Deepen Learning across the Disciplines, Grade Levels and Cultures
- Colorado State University (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
Sustainability is one of those big, complex concepts that defy easy definition or simple responses yet demand attention to our collective well-being. Some Native Americans would judge the worth of ...
- Posted Sept. 28, 2017
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Sustainable Business Courseware
- Point B (WA)
AASHE has partnered with Sustainable Business Consulting to provide plug-and-play online sustainable business courseware to help members accelerate the integration of sustainability into their curriculum. The content is consistent with ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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Content trends in sustainable business education: an analysis of introductory courses in the USA
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Purpose - This study aims to identify the content in introductory business sustainability courses in the USA to determine the most frequently assigned reading material and its sustainability orientation.
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- Posted May 11, 2017
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The Economics of Sustainability: Using Microeconomic Principles to Teach Sustainability
- Aquinas College (MI)
As a means to support a sustainable business program at Aquinas College, principles of microeconomics courses take on a unique sustainability focus. Here the concepts of consumption and production are ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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