Envisioning Futures For Environmental And Sustainability Education

Author : Peter Blaze Corcoran
Publisher : Brill Wageningen Academic
ISBN 13 : 9789086868469
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education written by Peter Blaze Corcoran and published by Brill Wageningen Academic. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection invites educational practitioners and theorists to speculate on - and craft visions for - the future of environmental and sustainability education. It explores what educational methods and practices might exist on the horizon, waiting for discovery and implementation. A global array of authors imagines alternative futures for the field and attempts to rethink environmental and sustainability education institutionally, intellectually, and pedagogically. These thought leaders chart how emerging modes of critical speculation might function as a means to remap and redesign the future of environmental and sustainability education today. Previous volumes within this United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development series have responded to the complexity of environmental education in our contemporary moment with concepts such as social learning, intergenerational learning, and transformative leadership for sustainable futures. 'Envisioning Futures for Environmental and Sustainability Education' builds on this earlier work - as well as the work of others. It seeks to foster modes of intellectual engagement with ecological futures in the Anthropocene; to develop resilient, adaptable pedagogies as a hedge against future ecological uncertainties; and to spark discussion concerning how futures thinking can generate theoretical and applied innovations within the field.

Author : Keith A. Wheeler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461542774
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education for a Sustainable Future written by Keith A. Wheeler and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illustrates how sustainability, information technologies, and envisioning the future can be effectively woven into an integrated educational experience. By understanding what it takes to build a sustainable community, students will develop the skills needed to engage successfully in a sustainable society. Using the real world as their classroom, they will participate in gathering and analyzing data, clarifying values, listening, speaking, thinking creatively, and making decisions about their community.

Author : Erika Pénzesné Kónya
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030663841
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Sustainability Education for a Changing World written by Erika Pénzesné Kónya and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globally, there is a need to promote and empower practical action towards better environmental conservation and greater sustainability; education aspires to achieve and motivate this – one mind at a time. This book advances a future-oriented vision of the development of environmental sustainability education in settings outside the high-school. It provides practical guidance for teacher practitioners and policy makers in community-oriented environmental sustainability education. It promotes a modern holistic approach to sustainability learning in and by the community through participative engagement with sustainability issues. Its special foci include working with volunteers and citizen scientists, through museums or through re-purposing Higher Education. Its approach emphasises the implementation of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and cooperation with environmental management professionals. This book’s cosponsors include the International Association for Headwater Control and FAO – European Forestry Commission’s Working Party on the Management of Mountain Watersheds, as well as the International Environmental Education Conferences, Eger, Hungary and the Hungarian Academy of Science’s Subcommittee on Future Studies. Community education has long been a goal for environmental management, whose practitioners realise that interventions, such as biodiversity conservation, are only truly sustainable when supported by the local land-user and stakeholder communities; this depends upon these stakeholders’ understanding why intervention is necessary.

Author : Naomi Krogman
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772126667
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Future of Sustainability Education at North American Universities written by Naomi Krogman and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores sustainability education in the North American academy. The authors advocate for a more integrated approach to teaching sustainability in order to help students address the most pressing problems of the world, embrace experimentation, and foster more meaningful involvement with the communities in which universities are located. Throughout, they remain focussed on identifying opportunities for sustainability in higher education and suggesting specific strategies and tactics to achieve them. Recommendations include pedagogical and structural changes aimed at helping students understand the systems in which they can advance sustainability. This timely volume will be of interest to scholars, academic leaders, policy makers, societal partners in research, and private-sector leaders interested in advancing the sustainability agenda. Contributors: Apryl Bergstrom, Christopher G. Boone, Ann Dale, Thomas Dietz, Roger Epp, Allison F.W. Goebel, Kourosh Houshmand, Robert H. Jones, Naomi Krogman, Shirley M. Malcom, Robert E. Megginson, Patricia E. (Ellie) Perkins, Vicky J. Sharpe, Toddi A. Steelman

Author : Bob Jickling
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319513222
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education written by Bob Jickling and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-03-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critique of over two decades of sustained effort to infuse educational systems with education for sustainable development. Taking to heart the idea that deconstruction is a prelude to reconstruction, this critique leads to discussions about how education can be remade, and respond to the educational imperatives of our time, particularly as they relate to ecological crises and human-nature relationships. It will be of great interest to students and researchers of sociology, education, philosophy and environmental issues.

Author : Mary Ann Hunter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 981107710X
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education, Arts and Sustainability written by Mary Ann Hunter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses this challenge by proposing an integration of sustainability and arts education in both principle and practice. In a global context of intensifying social, economic and environmental crises, education is key to raising awareness and motivating individuals and communities to act in sustaining life in our more-than-human world. But how is this done when the complexity and need for change becomes overwhelming, and schooling systems become complicit in supporting the status quo? Drawing on critical education theory and precepts of creativity, curiosity and change, it documents a series of case examples that demonstrate how five principles of Education for Sustainability - critical thinking, systems thinking, community partnership, participation, and envisioning better futures - are found at the heart of much arts practice in schools. Featuring the creative work and voices of teachers working in arts-based enquiry and diverse community-engaged contexts, the book investigates how sustainability principles are embedded in contemporary arts education thinking and pedagogy. The authors are unapologetically optimistic in forming an alliance of arts and sustainability education as a creative response to the challenge of our times, arguing that while they may have operated on the margins of conventional pedagogy and curriculum, they have more than marginal impact.

Author : Walter Leal Filho
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319478893
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education written by Walter Leal Filho and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook approaches sustainable development in higher education from an integrated perspective, addressing the dearth of publications on the subject. It offers a unique overview of what universities around the world are doing to implement sustainable development (i.e. via curriculum innovation, research, activities, or practical projects) and how their efforts relate to education for sustainable development at the university level. The Handbook gathers a wealth of information, ideas, best practices and lessons learned in the context of executing concrete projects, and assesses methodological approaches to integrating the topic of sustainable development in university curricula. Lastly, it documents and disseminates the veritable treasure trove of practical experience currently available on sustainability in higher education.

Author : Dr David Hicks
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134474490
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lessons for the Future written by Dr David Hicks and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-08-27 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the latest research in futures studies, this book provides new insights into ways of helping both students and teachers think more critically and creatively about their own future and that of wider society. It acknowledges the crucial role of education in helping young people understand the nature of local and global change and the social and environmental impacts such change will have on their future. Setting out a clear educational rationale for promoting global and futures perspective in education, it provides helpful and stimulating examples of futures-orientated classroom activities. It also includes fascinating research into children's views of the future.

Author : International Commission on the Futures of Education
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231004786
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining our futures together written by International Commission on the Futures of Education and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interwoven futures of humanity and our planet are under threat. Urgent action, taken together, is needed to change course and reimagine our futures.

Author : Stephen Sterling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1136531580
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustainability Education written by Stephen Sterling and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we equip learners with the values, knowledge, skills, and motivation to help achieve economic, social and ecological well-being? How can universities make a major contribution towards a more sustainable future? Amid rising expectations on HE from professional associations, funders, policy makers, and undergraduates, and increasing interest amongst academics and senior management, a growing number of higher education institutions are taking the lead in embracing sustainability. This response does not only include greening the campus but also transforming curricula and teaching and learning. This book explains why this is necessary and - crucially - how to do it. Bringing together the experience of the HEFCE funded Centre for Sustainable Futures (CSF) at the University of Plymouth and the Higher Education Academy's Education for Sustainable Development Project, the book distills out the curriculum contributions of a wide range of disciplinary areas to sustainability. The first part of the book provides background on the current status of sustainability within higher education, including chapters discussing interdisciplinarity, international perspectives and pedagogy. The second part features 13 chapter case studies from teachers and lecturers in diverse disciplines, describing what has worked, how and why - and what hasn't. Whilst the book is organised by traditional disciplines, the authors and editors emphasise transferable lessons and interdisciplinarity so that readers can learn from examples outside their own area to embed sustainability within their own curricula and teaching. Subject areas covered include: geography, environmental and Earth Sciences, nursing/health, law, dance, drama, music, engineering, media and cultural studies, art and design, theology, social work, economics, languages, education, business and built environment.