Higher Education for Sustainable Development
Kerry Shephard
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Description for Higher Education for Sustainable Development
Hardback. This book asks and answers how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability, providing a guide for those who advocate for sustainability and for those who do not and makes a point of emphasising that all in higher education have the capacity and willingness to contribute in some way. Num Pages: 138 pages, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JNF; JNM; RNU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 310.
This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability and for those who do not and makes a point of emphasising that all in higher education have the capacity and willingness to contribute in some way. The challenge is to find an approach that unifies the efforts of higher education teachers towards sustainability objectives, rather than dividing them. People at universities across the world were consulted and a grounded theory was devised. This encourages all university teachers to teach ... Read more
This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability and for those who do not and makes a point of emphasising that all in higher education have the capacity and willingness to contribute in some way. The challenge is to find an approach that unifies the efforts of higher education teachers towards sustainability objectives, rather than dividing them. People at universities across the world were consulted and a grounded theory was devised. This encourages all university teachers to teach ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
131
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137548405
SKU
V9781137548405
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Kerry Shephard
Kerry Shephard is Professor of Higher Education Development at the University of Otago, New Zealand. He has a background in the biological sciences and extensive experience as a university teacher and researcher in both the UK and in New Zealand.
Reviews for Higher Education for Sustainable Development
I hope that anyone reading this review will have got the message that I think that this is an engaging book which is well-written, scholarly, accessible, and properly provocative. (William Scott, Environmental Education Research, November, 2016) This book presents a pragmatic solution to the challenges of education for sustainability, and perhaps has relevance ... Read more