Esdebate

Author : Frits Hesselink,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2831705274

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ESDebate by Frits Hesselink,International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication Pdf

This novel publication includes summaries of the main issues arising from an internet discussion on the changing perspectives on environmental education in the light of the global initiative on sustainable development. Fifty experts from around the world discussed in five rounds how they see the field evolving. The accompanying CD-ROM allows you to delve into the points made by each participant. It also contains a top-10 list of books and sites on the subject. It explains how the web site discussion was managed, for those interested in learning more about mobilizing knowledge using the opportunities of the worldwide web.

Author : Rolf Jucker
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015055171048

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Our Common Illiteracy by Rolf Jucker Pdf

Our Common Illiteracy takes seriously the international consensus that Education for Sustainability (EfS) is crucial to the survival of humankind. It establishes the principles of a sustainable society and performs a rigorous assessment of the re

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087908614

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Diversity in Environmental Education Research by Anonim Pdf

In this book, Wolff-Michael Roth takes a 38-minute conversation in one science classroom as an occasion for analyzing learning and development from a perspective by and large inspired by the works of Mikhail Bakhtin but also influenced by Lev Vygotsky and 20th century European phenomenology and American pragmatism.

Author : Alan Reid
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781351385312

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Curriculum and Environmental Education by Alan Reid Pdf

This collection traces the development and findings of curriculum studies of environmental education since the mid-1970s. Based on a virtual special issue of the Journal of Curriculum Studies, the volume identifies a series of curriculum challenges for and from environmental education. These include key questions in curriculum politics, planning and implementation, including which educative experiences should a curriculum foster and why; what the scope of a worthwhile curriculum should be and how it should be decided, organised and reworked; why distinctive curricula are provided to different groups of students; and how curriculum should best be enacted and evaluated? The editor and contributors call for renewed attention to the possibilities for future directions in research, in light of previously published work and innovations in scholarship. They also offer critical commentary on curriculum, critique and crisis in environmental education, through new material and previous studies from the journal, by addressing three key themes: perspectives on curriculum and environment education; accounting for curriculum in environmental education; and changes in curriculum for environmental education.

Author : Daniella Tilbury,David Wortman
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 2831708230

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Engaging People in Sustainability by Daniella Tilbury,David Wortman Pdf

The book is based on the exchange of professional experiences which featured in an IUCN CEC workshop in August 2002. Practitioners from around the world shared their models of good practice and explored the challenges involved in engaging people in sustainability. The difficulties facing practitioners vary between country and context but some challenges are universal: A lack of clarity in communicating what is meant by sustainable development; An ambition to educate everyone to bring about a global citizenship; Social, organisational or institutional factors constrain change to sustainable development, yet there is an emphasis on formal education, and community educators do not receive the same support; A lack of balance in addressing the integration of environmental, social and economic dimensions leading to an interpretation that ESD is mainly about environment and conservation issues; New learning (rather than teaching) approaches are called for to promote more debate in society. Yet, few are trained or experienced in these new approaches. Practitioners need support to explore new ways of promoting learning. [Foreword, ed].

Author : Victoria M. McMillan,Amy Lyons Higgs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Environmental education
ISBN : UOM:39015056308268

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Implementing Sustainability Education by Victoria M. McMillan,Amy Lyons Higgs Pdf

Author : Henning Melber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783607150

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The Rise of Africa's Middle Class by Henning Melber Pdf

Across Africa, a burgeoning middle class has become the poster child for the 'Africa rising' narrative. Ambitious, aspirational and increasingly affluent, this group is said to embody the values and hopes of the new Africa, with international bodies ranging from the United Nations Development Programme to the World Bank regarding them as important agents of both economic development and democratic change. This narrative, however, obscures the complex and often ambiguous role that this group actually plays in African societies. Bringing together economists, political scientists, anthropologists and development experts, and spanning a variety of case studies from across the continent, this collection provides a much-needed corrective to the received wisdom within development circles, and provides a fresh perspective on social transformations in contemporary Africa.

Author : Cedric Cullingford,John Blewitt
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849773287

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The Sustainability Curriculum by Cedric Cullingford,John Blewitt Pdf

The links between education and sustainable development are deepening, although subject to much controversy and debate. The success of the sustainability discourse depends both on the pedagogic and research functions of higher education. Similarly, for higher education itself to remain relevant and engaged it faces pressure not only to integrate the insights and lessons drawn from the perspective of sustainable development, but also to be responsive to scrutiny of its own practices in relation to sustainability. Among professionals in higher education, sustainable development has its supporters and detractors. It is embraced by some individuals and departments while being perceived by others as a threat to the coherence of particular disciplines. Although it is not currently an academic discipline in its own right, increasing public and professional familiarity with the term, and the increasing urgency of global calls for the implementation of sustainable development mean that this is rapidly changing. This volume analyses the impact of the concepts and practices of sustainability and sustainable development on various academic disciplines, institutional practices, fields of study and methods of enquiry. The contributors, drawn from a wide-range of disciplines, perspectives, educational levels and institutional contexts, examine the purpose of the modern university and the nature of sustainable education, which includes exploring links to social movements for sustainability projects, curriculum change, culture and biodiversity, values relating to gender equality and global responsibility, and case studies on the transformation, or otherwise, of some specific disciplines.

Author : Herner Saeverot
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000467802

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Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation by Herner Saeverot Pdf

Meeting the Challenges of Existential Threats through Educational Innovation is the first book of its kind to provide an educational and systematic analysis of problems and solutions regarding the most pressing threats that humankind is facing. The book makes a case for the importance of education responding to significant threats; including climate change, pandemics, decline in global biodiversity, overpopulation, egoism, ideologies, nuclear, biological and chemical warfare, inequality, artificial intelligence, and ignorance and the distortion of truth. Written by leading experts in their field based on cutting-edge research, the chapters explore these issues and offer suggestions for how education can address these problems in the future. This groundbreaking and highly topical book will be an essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of education research, environmental studies, educational politics and organizational management.

Author : Alan Reid,William Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136763144

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Researching Education and the Environment by Alan Reid,William Scott Pdf

Previously published as a special issue of Environmental Education Research, this collection includes some of the most influential and important articles contributed to the field over the last decade. Drawing out the best articles from volumes one to ten, the editors highlight six major themes:EE and ESD: tension or transition? locating the environ

Author : Susan D. Clayton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199733026

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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Conservation Psychology by Susan D. Clayton Pdf

First handbook to integrate environmental psychology and conservation psychology.

Author : David N. Aspin,Judith D. Chapman,Karen Evans,Richard Bagnall
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1011 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789400723597

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Second International Handbook of Lifelong Learning by David N. Aspin,Judith D. Chapman,Karen Evans,Richard Bagnall Pdf

The second edition of the International Handbook of Lifelong Learning is extensive, innovative, and international in scope, remit and vision, inviting its readers to engage in a critical re-appraisal of the theme of “lifelong learning”. It is a thorough-going, rigorous and scholarly work, with profound and wide-ranging implications for the future of educating institutions and agencies of all kinds in the conception, planning and delivery of lifelong learning initiatives. Lifelong learning requires a wholly new philosophy of learning, education and training, one that aims to facilitate a coherent set of links and pathways between work, school and education, and recognises the necessity for government to give incentives to industry and their employees so they can truly “invest” in lifelong learning. It is also a concept that is premised on the understanding of a learning society in which everyone, independent of race, creed or gender, is entitled to quality learning that is truly excellent. This book recognises the need for profound changes in education and for goals that are critically important to education, economic advancement, and social involvement. To those concerned about the future of our society, our economy and educational provision, this book provides a richly illuminating basis for powerful debate. Drawing extensively on policy analyses, conceptual thinking and examples of informed and world-standard practice in lifelong learning endeavours in the field, both editors and authors seek to focus readers' attention on the many issues and decisions that must be addressed if lifelong learning is to become a reality for us all.

Author : Walter Leal Filho,Ubiratã Tortato,Fernanda Frankenberger
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030303068

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Universities and Sustainable Communities: Meeting the Goals of the Agenda 2030 by Walter Leal Filho,Ubiratã Tortato,Fernanda Frankenberger Pdf

The book showcases examples of university engagement in community initiatives and reports on the results from research and from a variety of institutional projects and programmes. As a whole, the book illustrates how actors at the community (microlevel) and other levels (meso and macro) can make valuable and concrete contributions to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and, more specifically, to achieving the objectives defined at the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is one of the outcomes of the “Second World Symposium on Sustainability Science”, which was jointly organised by the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná (Brazil), the Research and Transfer Centre “Sustainable Development and Climate Change Management” and the “European School of Sustainability Science and Research” at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany), in cooperation with the Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP).

Author : International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication
Publisher : IUCN
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9782831706238

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Education and Sustainability by International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. Commission on Education and Communication Pdf

A publication from IUCN's Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), this book tells the stories of people who work with communities to motivate them to create a more sustainable future. The accounts range from engaging communities through theatre to a revival of indigenous stories to pass on good environmental practice. The publication was produced both to share what educators around the world have learnt and to give them a platform to tell their stories.

Author : Rod Gerber,M. Williams
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401716796

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Geography, Culture and Education by Rod Gerber,M. Williams Pdf

The aim of this book is to inject more intercultural understanding and education into people's lives. This is achieved by focusing on key aspects such as geography and culture, geography and citizenship, pedagogic implications and future directions for inter-cultural learning, understanding, and education. This publication demonstrates how the study of geography can assist people in different social and cultural groups to sustain their lifeworlds, and improve them for future generations of citizens.