Barth, Matthias

Rieckmann, Marco

Sanusi, Zainal Abidin

Higher Education for Sustainable Development.

Looking Back and Moving Forward (Higher Education for Sustainability).

Bad Homburg

2011

9783888644856

3888644852

46993

50094

The year 2009 marked the completion of the first half of the UN Decade ″Education for Sustainable Development″. This provided the opportunity to critically reflect on the achievements so far and the tasks and challenges remaining to be addressed. Thus, the Third International Conference on Higher Education for Sustainable Development, jointly organized by the UNESCO Chair ″Higher Education for Sustainable Development″ at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany and the Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang in 2009 addressed the central question of what added value integrating questions of sustainability has for teaching and learning in higher education.

This book reflects upon what has been achieved so far in higher education for sustainable development and gives a snapshot of what is going on at the very moment. We trust this will contribute to the discourse in the growing area of higher education for sustainable development and help to fulfill the objective outlined in the title of this volume: to look back and move forward.

Preface

Matthias Barth, Marco Rieckmann and Zainal Abidin Sanusi
Higher Education for Sustainable Development:
Looking Back and Moving Forward

Part I
The History and the Future of Higher Education
for Sustainable Development

Arjen E.J. Wals
The "E" in ESD: From Green Washing the Ivory Tower to
Deep Learning for Sustainability

Hans van Ginkel
Higher Education and Sustainable Development:
Vision, History, Status

Gerd Michelsen
Future Challenges of Higher Education in the Context of
Sustainable Development from a European Point of View 59

Part II
Higher Education and Sustainable Development:
A South-East-Asian Perspective

James Campbell
Sustainability and Globalization

Zakri A. Hamid, Zainal A. Sanusi and Govindran Jegatesen
Universities' Research Agenda: Synergizing Global Concerns and Local Actions

Dzulkifli Abdul Razak
Transforming Higher Education for a Sustainable Society:
Future Challenges in the Context of Sustainable Development

Part III
Next Practices in Higher Education for Sustainable Development:
Work in Progress

Angela Franz-Balsen, Norpisah Mat Isah and Wan Teng Lai
Merging Gender Mainstreaming and Sustainability Strategies: a Win-Win Approach

Zainal A. Sanusi and Hamoon Khelghat Doost
The Development of a Faculty Training Module:
Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development

Eijun Senaha
The Alternative University Appraisal Project:
Construction of a Learning Community in the Asia Pacific

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