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Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education

Paula Jones, David Selby, Stephen Sterling

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1. Introduction 2. More than the sum of their parts? Interdisciplinarity in relation to sustainability 3. 'It's not just bits of paper and light bulbs': A review of sustainability pedagogies and their potential for use in higher education 4. Third-wave sustainability in higher education: Some (inter)national trends and developments 5. Education for sustainability in the business studies curriculum: Ideological struggle 6. Geography, earth and environmental sciences: A suitable home for ESD? 7. Climate change, sustainability and health in UK higher education: The challenges for nursing 8. Sustainability - is it legal? The benefits and challenges of introducing sustainability into the law curriculum 9. Staging sustainability: Making sense of sustainability in HE dance, drama and music 10. Engineering our world towards a sustainable future 11. Developing critical faculties: Environmental sustainability in media, communications and cultural studies in higher education 12. Sustainability in the theology curriculum 13. Sustaining communities: sustainability in the social work curriculum 14. Sustainability and built environment professionals: A shifting paradigm 15. Costing the Earth: The economics of sustainability in the curriculum 16. Translating words into action and actions into words: Sustainability in languages, linguistics and area studies curricula 17. If sustainability needs new values, whose values? Initial teacher training and the transition to sustainability 18. Conclusion

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1. Introduction 2. More than the sum of their parts? Interdisciplinarity in relation to sustainability 3. 'It's not just bits of paper and light bulbs': A review of sustainability pedagogies and their potential for use in higher education 4. Third-wave sustainability in higher education: Some (inter)national trends and developments 5. Education for sustainability in the business studies curriculum: Ideological struggle 6. Geography, earth and environmental sciences: A suitable home for ESD? 7. Climate change, sustainability and health in UK higher education: The challenges for nursing 8. Sustainability - is it legal? The benefits and challenges of introducing sustainability into the law curriculum 9. Staging sustainability: Making sense of sustainability in HE dance, drama and music 10. Engineering our world towards a sustainable future 11. Developing critical faculties: Environmental sustainability in media, communications and cultural studies in higher education 12. Sustainability in the theology curriculum 13. Sustaining communities: sustainability in the social work curriculum 14. Sustainability and built environment professionals: A shifting paradigm 15. Costing the Earth: The economics of sustainability in the curriculum 16. Translating words into action and actions into words: Sustainability in languages, linguistics and area studies curricula 17. If sustainability needs new values, whose values? Initial teacher training and the transition to sustainability 18. Conclusion

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1. Introduction 2. More than the sum of their parts? Interdisciplinarity in relation to sustainability 3. 'It's not just bits of paper and light bulbs': A review of sustainability pedagogies and their potential for use in higher education 4. Third-wave sustainability in higher education: Some (inter)national trends and developments 5. Education for sustainability in the business studies curriculum: Ideological struggle 6. Geography, earth and environmental sciences: A suitable home for ESD? 7. Climate change, sustainability and health in UK higher education: The challenges for nursing 8. Sustainability - is it legal? The benefits and challenges of introducing sustainability into the law curriculum 9. Staging sustainability: Making sense of sustainability in HE dance, drama and music 10. Engineering our world towards a sustainable future 11. Developing critical faculties: Environmental sustainability in media, communications and cultural studies in higher education 12. Sustainability in the theology curriculum 13. Sustaining communities: sustainability in the social work curriculum 14. Sustainability and built environment professionals: A shifting paradigm 15. Costing the Earth: The economics of sustainability in the curriculum 16. Translating words into action and actions into words: Sustainability in languages, linguistics and area studies curricula 17. If sustainability needs new values, whose values? Initial teacher training and the transition to sustainability 18. Conclusion

Key concepts: Sustainability, Sustainability organizations, Sustainability science, Social sustainability, Curriculum, Engineering ethics, Education for sustainable development, Sociology

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