Overview
- Offers a model for change in teacher education to help embed education for sustainability
- Includes real-world case studies to illustrate concepts and change processes introduced throughout the book
- Provides a practical guide to using a systems change approach for teacher education academics
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Education (BRIEFSEDUCAT)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
Keywords
- education for sustainability in teacher education in Australia
- embedding education for sustainability in teacher education
- education for sustainability development in teacher education
- creating systems-wide change in teacher education
- mainstreaming sustainability
- changing initial teacher education
- higher education and sustainability
- higher education and sustainable development
- teachers as change agents for sustainability
- teacher educators for sustainability
- teacher educators for sustainable development
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Assoc. Professor Jo-Anne Ferreira is Director of the Centre for Teaching & Learning and Academic Director, SCU Online at Southern Cross University, Bilinga, Australia. Her research focuses on online education and the sociology of education with a special interest in post-structuralist theories of identity, embodiment and power; in systems-based change; and in environmental and sustainability education.
Dr Neus (Snowy) Evans is a Senior Lecturer in Education at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, where she is coordinator of the Master of Teaching and Learning (Primary) program. Her research interests include socio-ecological resilience and sustainability education in schools and initial teacher education; teacher professional practice; and pedagogy and place; with a particular interest in the intersection between teacher professional practice and sustainability theory, policy and practice.
Prof. Julie Davis is an Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. A world leader in early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS), with over 100 publications, she was sole-editor of the first textbook on young children’s learning and EfS for early childhood initial teacher education students, translated into Korean and Chinese. She also co-edited the first research text on ECEfS, which problematizes ECEfS theory and practice, also translated into Korean.
Prof. Bob Stevenson is an Adjunct Professor at James Cook University, Cairns, Australia, and was previously Tropical Research Leader (EfS) at The Cairns Institute, and Director of the Centre for Sustainability Education. He was lead editor of the International Handbook of Research in Environmental Education and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Environmental Education. His scholarly interests include theory-policy-practice relationships in environmental and sustainability education; leadership and teacher professional development; and potential spaces and approaches to engage youth in deep thinking about and acting on socio-ecological issues.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Learning to Embed Sustainability in Teacher Education
Authors: Jo-Anne Ferreira, Neus (Snowy) Evans, Julie M. Davis, Robert (Bob) Stevenson
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9536-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9535-2Published: 08 July 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9536-9Published: 29 June 2019
Series ISSN: 2211-1921
Series E-ISSN: 2211-193X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 68
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Teaching and Teacher Education, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Educational Policy and Politics