1st Edition

Higher Education for Sustainability Cases, Challenges, and Opportunities from Across the Curriculum

Edited By Lucas F. Johnston Copyright 2013
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    Student and employer demand, high-level institutional commitment, and faculty interest are inspiring the integration of sustainability oriented themes into higher education curricula and research agendas. Moving toward sustainability calls for shifts in practice such as interdisciplinary collaboration and partnerships for engaged learning. This timely edited collection provides a glimpse at the ways colleges and universities have integrated sustainability across the curriculum. The research-based chapters provide empirical studies of both traditional and innovative degree programs as well as case studies from professional schools. Chapter authors illustrate some of the inclusive and deliberative community and political processes that can lead to sustainable learning outcomes in higher education. Exploring the range of approaches campuses are making to successfully integrate sustainability into the curricula, this much-needed resource provides inspiration, guidance, and instruction for others seeking to take education for sustainability to the next level.

    Foreword: When You Wake Up Tomorrow, Paul Rowland

    Chapter 1: Introduction: What’s Required to Take EfS to the Next Level? Dedee DeLongpre Johnston and Lucas Johnston

    SECTION 1: Understanding the Landscape for Change

    Chapter 2: The Emerging Environmental Sustainability Program at Meredith College: Exploring Student and Faculty Interest and Participation, Laura Fieselman and Erin Lindquist

    Chapter 3: Understanding Student Environmental Interests When Designing Multidisciplinary Curriculum, Jeremy T. Bruskotter, Greg Hitzhusen, Robyn S. Wilson, Adam Zwickle

    Chapter 4: Learning Outcomes: An International Comparison of Countries and Declarations, Debra Rowe and Lucas Johnston

    SECTION 2: Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Strategies and Tactics

    Chapter 5: Systems Study of an International Masters Program: A Case from Sweden, Sanaz Karim, Nadarajah Sriskandarajah, Asa Heiter

    Chapter 6: Keys to Breaking Disciplinary Barriers that Limit Sustainable Development Courses, William Van Lopik

    SECTION 3: Educating the Professional

    Chapter 7: Strategies for Transforming Healthcare Curricula: A Call for Collaboration between Academia and Practitioners, Carrie Rich and Seema Wadhwa

    Chapter 8: Sustainability and Professional Identity in Engineering Education, Mark Minster, Patricia D. Brackin, Rebecca DeVasher, Erik Z Hayes, Richard House, Corey Taylor

    Chapter 9: Implementing Environmental Sustainability in the Global Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Industries: Developing a Comprehensive Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum, Michelle Millar, Chris Brown, Cynthia Carruthers, Thomas Jones, Yen-Soon Kim, Carola Raab, Ken Teeters, Li-Ting Yang

    SECTION 4: Problem-Based Learning

    Chapter 10: Everybody’s Business: Addressing the Challenge of Team-Teaching Partnerships in the Global Seminar, Tamara Savelyeva

    Chapter 11: The Moral Ecology of Everyday Life, James J. Farrell

    Chapter 12: The Living Home: Building It into the Curriculum, Braum Barber and Leona Rousseau

    SECTION 5: Transformational Approaches

    Chapter 13: Shaping Sustainability at Furman and Middlebury: Emergent and Adaptive Curricular Models, Angela C. Halfacre, Michelle Horhota, Katherine Kransteuber, Brittany DeKnight, Brannon Andersen, Jack Byrne, Steve Trombulak, Nan Jenks-Jay

    Chapter 14: Stepping Up to the Challenge—The Dalhousie Experience, Tarah Wright

    Chapter 15: Sustainability as a Transformation in Education, Charles L. Redman

    Chapter 16: Toward a Resilient Academy, Richard M. Carp

    Epilogue

    About the Contributors

    Biography

    Lucas F. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Religion and Environmental Studies and a Faculty Associate in the Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES) at Wake Forest University, USA.

    "This book can be used in undergraduate courses or as a subject on higher education
    for sustainability at the postgraduate level. It can be used as a course manual for career
    and vocational training courses and career training classes. Focusing such a relevant
    subject, this book can serve as a useful reference for a diversity of professionals, with a
    special emphasis to academics, researchers, politicians, administrators, managers, and
    engineers that are working in the field of higher education for sustainability."

    --J. Paulo Davim, Int. J. Higher Education and Sustainability, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2015