Davim, J. Paulo

Sustainability in Higher Education.

Oxford

2015

9780081003671

9780081003756

63333

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Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information between different aspects of sustainability in higher education. This book includes chapter contributions from authors who have provided case studies on various areas of education for sustainability.

List of contributors
Preface
About the contributors
Editor
Authors
1: Putting sustainable development in practice: campus greening as a tool for institutional sustainability efforts
Abstract
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Role and areas of campus greening
1.3 Overview and evaluation of campus greening efforts
1.4 Discussion
1.5 Lessons learned and needs to be addressed
1.6 Conclusions
2: Management education for sustainability: deriving learning formats from competence requirements
Abstract
2.1 Introduction
2.2 New profession requires profound management education for sustainability
2.3 Corporate change agents for sustainability: competence requirements to manage corporate sustainability
2.4 Learning formats to educate change agents for sustainability
2.5 Conclusion
3: U.S. and international community-based sustainability projects for deep learning
Abstract
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Background: high-impact educational practices, deep learning, and stakeholder outcomes
3.3 WPI: interactive qualifying projects
3.4 Interactive community-based projects and deep learning
3.5 Common challenges
3.6 Lessons learned
3.7 Summary and conclusion
4: Inculcating sustainability among first-year engineering students using cooperative problem-based learning
Abstract
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The cooperative problem-based learning model
4.3 Learning environment design in the introduction to engineering course
4.4 Example problem the introduction to engineering course
4.5 Study on the impact of the learning environment
4.6 Conclusion
5: Sustainability in engineering education: an approach to reach significant learning and character skills
Abstract
Acknowledgments
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Sustainability in higher engineering education
5.3 A qualitative, longitudinal research of students′ sustainable behavior in a Mexican HEI
5.4 Results and discussion
5.5 Concluding remarks