Table of contentsINTRODUCTION:
Education for Sustainable Development in a complex and changing world
Wim Lambrechts, James Hindson 6
PART I. Networks and collaboration for Education for Sustainable Development
1. Environment and school initiatives – ENSI: a precious network for thirty years!
Christine Affolter, Reiner Mathar 12
2. The Austrian Network ″Ecologising Schools″ (ECOLOG) Franz Rauch, Günther Pfaffenwimmer, Mira Dulle 213. Research on Education for Sustainable Development: a national network at its first steps
Antonella Bachiorri, Alessandra Puglisi, Mario Salomone 33
4. Schooling for Education for Sustainable Development: The contributions of Asia-Pacific Regional Centres of Expertise
Ingrid Mulà, Munirah Ghazali, Mario Tabucanon, Sachiko Yasuda 44
5. Tracing flax - an enabling process through an intergenerational dialog Andrea Sieber, Mira Dulle, Franz Rauch 556. A local community and waste management: the ECO-WAS project in
Traversetolo (Italy)
Antonella Bachiorri, Alessandra Puglisi, Laura Monica, Silvia Scaffardi 67
PART II. Exploring critical characteristics in Education for Sustainable Development
7. You can′t have taught them properly - or what happens when Education for Sustainable Development doesn′t produce the results we expect
James Hindson 82
8. A Pedagogy for uncertain times
Rebekah L. Tauritz 90
9. School community collaboration in remote communities: challenges for future teacher education
Georgia Liarakou, Costas Gavrilakis, Evgenia Flogaitis 106
10. Possibilities and practices of competences for sustainable development in higher education
Wim Lambrechts 123
11. The role of Higher Education Institutions in preparing youth to manage a sustainability-oriented future workplace
Mona B. El Zoghbi 134
12. Integrating local knowledge in ecological education in urban schools in Malaysia
Norizan Esa 149
PART III. Connecting Education and Research for Sustainable Development
13. Reflections on ′committed′research into education for sustainable development: challenges and responses
Mark Lemon,Wim Lambrechts, Margaret Fleming, Sun-Kyung Lee 168
14. Cultivating action and collaborative research on ESD: Case study on the ′new researchers generation′ in ENSI′s network
Michela Mayer, Johannes Tschapka 185
15. The role of transdisciplinarity in research and Education for Sustainable Development
Jordi Segalàs Coral,Gemma Tejedor Papell 197
16. The role of the critical friend in supporting action for sustainability: exploring the challenges and opportunities
Gisela Cebrián 211
17. Sustainability concepts in environmental educations′ master and PhD theses - explorative study in a Korean graduate school
Johannes Tschapka, Young Joo Lee 227
PART IV. Evaluation and Assessment of Education for Sustainable Development activities
18. Evaluating Education for Sustainable Development programmes consistently with Education for Sustainable Development values: a challenge for evaluators
Michela Mayer, Patrick Dillon 242
19. Challenges in evaluating sustainability aspects in complex science education programs in Hungarian primary schools
Monika Reti 257
20. Education for Sustainable Development – how well is it working? A comparative study of schools in Poland and England
Anna Batorczak, James Hindson 272
21. An approach for the analysis of evaluative discourse in international networks on Education for Sustainable Development
Esther Sabio Collado, Mariona Espinet Blanch, Isabel Martins 285
22. Assessment of a formative model that promotes the development of professional skills in sustainability education
Salvador Viciana Caballero, Josep Bonil Gargallo, Marta Fonolleda Riberaygua 293