Handbook of research on pedagogical innovations for sustainable development / Ken D. Thomas, Auburn University, USA and Helen E. Muga, University of Mount Union, USA.

"Education is a key component for progress in both the developed and developing world. It is imperative that society has access to new strides made in the area of sustainability so that current global challenges are resolved.Handbook of Research on Pedagogical Innovations for Sustainable Develo...

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Main Authors: Thomas, Ken D., 1982- (Author), Muga, Helen E., 1977- (Author)
Format: Ebook
Language:English
Published: Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, [2014]
Series:Practice, progress, and proficiency in sustainability (PPPS) book series.
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Online Access:IGI Global e-Book Collection
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Pedagogical Theories and Conceptual Frameworks to Address the Issues of Sustainability Education
  • 1. Sharing the Load: Developing Capacity for Social Sustainability in Design through Collaboration / Muireann McMahon, Tracy Bhamra
  • 2. Incorporating Place-Based Education to Cultivate Watershed Literacy: A Case Study / Nathan Hensley
  • 3. Sustainability in Photography Can Change the World / Rowena H. Scott
  • 4. Integration of Education for Sustainable Development into Formal Secondary Curricula of East Timor / Ana Capelo
  • 5. Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development in Higher Education: A Case Study from Croatia / Dunja Anđić, Sanja Tatalović Vorkapić
  • 6. Sustainable Development in Business Education: The Role of Entrepreneurship as Pedagogy / Fernando Lourenço, Natalie Sappleton, Weng Si Lei, Ranis Cheng
  • 7. Integrating Sustainable Design and Systems Thinking throughout an Engineering Curriculum / Robert L. Nagel, Kyle G. Gipson, Adebayo Ogundipe
  • 8. Learning about the Different Dimensions of Sustainability by Applying the Product Test Method in Science Classes / Mareike Burmeister, Janine von Döhlen, Ingo Eilks
  • 9. Communities of Practice (CoP) as a Model for Integrating Sustainability into Higher Education / Sandra Murray, Susan Salter
  • Section 2. Development and Transformation of Sustainable Development Programs: Elementary and Secondary Education:
  • 10. Using Project-Based Learning to Teach Sustainability Issues to Elementary Students / Ingrid Weiland, Elisa Pokral, Kristin Cook
  • 11. Pass, Fail, or Incomplete?: Analyzing Environmental Education in Nova Scotia's Sixth Grade Curriculum / Elizabeth Spence, Tarah Wright, Heather Castleden
  • 12. Learning about Sustainability in a Non-Formal Laboratory Context for Secondary Level Students: A Module on Climate Change, the Ozone Hole, and Summer Smog / Nicole Garner, Maria de Lourdes Lischke, Antje Siol, Ingo Eilks
  • 13. A System-Wide School-Based Program for Sustainability: Climate Clever Energy Savers / John Buchanan, Peter Aubusson, Sandy Schuck
  • 14. Teaching Sustainability Competencies to High School Students using Small-Scale Community-Based Construction Projects / Mehmet E. Ozbek, Caroline M. Clevenger
  • 15. Teaching Sustainability as a Social Issue: Learning from Dialogue in a High School Social Studies Classroom / Jay M. Shuttleworth, Anand R. Marri
  • 16. Systems Thinking about Severe Storms in Social Studies Education / Thomas Chandler, Margaret Crocco, Anand R. Marri
  • Section 3. Approaches in Higher Education to Teaching and Learning Sustainability and Sustainable Development Concepts:
  • 17. Integrating Sustainability within Higher Education / Angus W. Stewart
  • 18. Teaching about Sustainability: Raising Consciousness and Taking Action / Richard Penaskovic, Dennis R. DeVries, Nanette E. Chadwick
  • 19. Teaching of Sustainability: Higher Education (HE) Case Studies / Sue Haile, Jarka Glassey
  • 20. The Reinvention of an Unremarkable Building through Adaptive Reuse: A Case Study / Deborah Schneiderman, Anne L. Carr
  • 21. Sustainability, Ethics and Education: What's Accounting Got to Do with It? / Tehmina Khan
  • 22. Physics of Energy: A Sustainability-Themed University Travel Course / Katrina Hay
  • 23. Green Chemistry: Classroom Implementation of an Educational Board Game Illustrating Environmental Sustainable Development in Chemical Manufacturing / Mike Coffey
  • 24. Designing Sustainability Curricula: A Case Following Chemical Engineering Curriculum Redesign / Madoc Sheehan
  • 25. Using Accreditation to Foster Education for Sustainability in Higher Education: The Implementation of the Peace with Creation Project at Eastern Mennonite University / James Yoder, BJ Miller
  • 26. Implementing an Interfaculty Elective “Sustainable Development”: An Intervention into a University's Culture between Organized Scientific Rationality and Normative Claim / Renate Hübner, Franz Rauch, Mira Dulle
  • Section 4. Contemporary Approaches to Adult Education for Sustainable Development:
  • 27. Analyzing Farmers' Learning Process in Sustainable Development: The Case of Organic Paddy Farmers in North Sumatra, Indonesia / Diana Chalil
  • 28. Growing PEAS at the Duke Campus Farm: An Analysis of Post-Secondary Sustainable Agriculture Education Curricula / Damon Cory-Watson
  • 29. Synchronous E-Learning on Rural Sustainability: A Reflection on a Course with Six Universities across Canada, Mexico, and the United States / Denise M. Golden, Alex S. Mayer, Brian E. McLaren, Jason E. Dampier, Patrick T. Maher, M. A. (Peggy) Smith, Mirella Stroink
  • 30. ‘Growing Oak Trees' - Education for Sustainable Design: Building a Sustainable Design Literacy in Undergraduate and Professional Designers / Adam de Eyto
  • Section 5. Education for Sustainable Development: Problems, Prospects and Promise:
  • 31. Are University Lecturers Literate in Sustainability? / Noora Kokkarinen, Alison J. Cotgrave
  • 32. Transforming University Curricula towards Sustainability: A Euro-Mediterranean Initiative / Vassilios Makrakis
  • 33. Embedding Sustainability Learning: Robustness in Changing Circumstances - Perspectives from a United Kingdom (UK) Higher Education Institution (HEI) / Ros Taylor, Elise Barron, Katherine A.T. Eames
  • 34. Efforts to Promote Sustainable Development through Education in Cambodia / Yuto Kitamura
  • 35. Digital Textbook in Personal Learning Portfolios: A Case of Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Innovation for Sustainability / Elena Railean
  • 36. Intercultural Communication and Sustainable Leadership: The Case of a Joint Master Course / Nelly Kostoulas-Makrakis.
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