1st Edition

Higher Education and Sustainable Development Paradox and Possibility

By Stephen Gough, William Scott Copyright 2007
212 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

The ‘Key Issues in Higher Education’ series aims to raise both awareness and the standards of debate on the fundamental issues that lie at the very heart of higher education and intends to assist national and international debate. Higher Education and Sustainable Development examines whether it is actually possible to mandate, plan, monitor and evaluate the higher education sector’s route... Read more

1. What is Higher Education For? 2. Sustainable Development and the Free Society  3. Sustaining Development  4. Case Study 1: An International Initiative in Higher Education Management: University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF)  5. Case Study 2: A United Nations Environment Programme Initiative: Mainstreaming Environment and Sustainability in African Universities (MESA)  6. Case Study 3: A Unesco initiative: Re-orienting teacher education to address sustainability  7. Case Study 4: Sustainable Development and Higher Education Management: the work of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE)  8. Case Study 5: Russian Interpretation of Sustainability and its Reflection in Higher Education  9. Case Study 6: Sustainability in Management Education: an initiative in sustainable procurement training  10. Case Study 7: Sustainability in Engineering Education: the Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professors Scheme  11. The Case Studies: clarity and confusion  12. The Environment in Sustainable Development and Higher Education  13. Society in Sustainable Development and Higher Education  14. Economy in Sustainable Development and Higher Education  15. Individual Learning in Higher Education  16. Collective Learning in Higher Education  17. Linking Learning and Research  18. Managing Sustainable Development in Higher Education: context and principles  19. Managing Change  20. Managing across the Organisational Boundary  21. Higher Education and Sustainable Development: an identity of interest?

Biography

Dr Stephen Gough is Senior Lecturer in Education and a member of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment at the University of Bath. He is currently researching the role of learning in sustainable procurement management in a project funded by the UK’s National Health Service Purchasing and Supply Agency (NHSPASA). He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He has extensive experience of research in environmental and sustainability education around the world and is a member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal Environmental Education Research.

Dr William Scott is a Professor of Education at the University of Bath where he directs the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment. He edits the international refereed academic journals: Environmental Education Research, and Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and works with local and national NGOs with interests in environmental, conservation and sustainability issues. William Scott has conducted a range of research, development and evaluation studies on behalf of government, industry, NGOs and other agencies in this country and abroad, most significantly with WWF.