Teaching Education for Sustainable Development at University Level
Editors: Leal Filho, Walter, Pace, Paul (Eds.)
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- Includes contributions by a wide range of authors from different countries
- Employing a highly interdisciplinary focus, it will be of interest to a wide academic audience
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This book introduces readers to the latest research and findings from projects focusing on teaching education for sustainable development at universities. In particular, it describes practical experiences, outline courses, training schemes and other initiatives aimed at promoting better teaching on matters related to sustainable development at institutions of higher education. In order to meet the pressing need for publications to support sustainable development education, the book places special emphasis on state-of-the art descriptions of approaches, methods, initiatives and projects from around the world, illustrating how teaching education for sustainable development can be implemented at the international scale.
The book represents a timely contribution to the dissemination of approaches and methods that may improve the way we perceive the importance of teaching education for sustainable development, as well as how we implement it.
- Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Teaching Education for Sustainable Development: Implications on Learning Programmes at Higher Education
Pages 1-6
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An Approach to Embedding Sustainability into Undergraduate Curriculum: Macquarie University, Australia Case Study
Pages 9-33
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Sustainability in the University Curriculum: Teaching Introductory Economics
Pages 35-48
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Strengths and Weaknesses of an E-learning Program in Environmental Sciences at Universidade Aberta, Portugal
Pages 49-66
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Future Generations: Developing Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship for University Education Students
Pages 67-81
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Teaching Education for Sustainable Development at University Level
- Editors
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- Walter Leal Filho
- Paul Pace
- Series Title
- World Sustainability Series
- Copyright
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing Switzerland
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-32928-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-32928-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-32926-0
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-81401-8
- Series ISSN
- 2199-7373
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 355
- Number of Illustrations
- 14 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
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