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

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 collaborati...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johnston, Lucas F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a 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 c. 
505 0 |a Front Cover; Higher Education For Sustainablity; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; 1 Introduction: What's Required to Take EfS to the Next Level?; Section 1 Understanding the Landscape for Change; 2 The Emerging Environmental Sustainability Programat Meredith College: Exploring Student and Faculty Interest and Participation; 3 Understanding Student Environmental Interests When Designing Multidisciplinary Curricula; 4 Learning Outcomes: An International Comparison of Countries and Declarations; Section 2 Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Strategies and Tactics 
505 8 |a 5 Systems Study of an International Master's Program: A Case from Sweden6 Keys to Breaking Disciplinary Barriers that Limit Sustainable Development Courses; Section 3 Educating the Professional; 7 Strategies for Transforming Healthcare Curricula: A Call for Collaboration Between Academia and Practitioners; 8 Sustainability and Professional Identity in Engineering Education; 9 Implementing Environmental Sustainability in the Global Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Industries: Developing a Comprehensive Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum; Section 4 Problem-Based Learning 
505 8 |a 10 Everybody's Business: Addressing the Challenge of Team-Teaching Partnerships in the Global Seminar11 The Moral Ecology of Everyday Life; 12 The Living Home: Building It into the Curriculum; Section 5 Transformational Approaches; 13 Shaping Sustainability at Furman and Middlebury: Emergentand Adaptive Curricular Models; 14 Stepping Up to the Challenge -- The Dalhousie Experience; 15 Sustainability as a Transformation in Education; 16 Toward a Resilient Academy; Epilogue; About the Contributors; Index 
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