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Introducing a conceptual framework called the Paradox Model, this book assesses the challenge of developing sustainability in higher education in the 21st century. For academics and educators from a wide range of disciplines in higher educational settings interested in translating sustainability theory into educational practice.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Navigating Educational Tensions: The Paradox Model
Part 1: Rethinking Educational Purpose 2. 'Swallowing a World': Reflections on Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education 3. Education for Life 4. Educating for the Future in the Humanities: Passion, Utility and Student Perspectives of Employability in Higher Education 5. A Fragile Education for a Good World: 'Kenosis' and Self-giving in Teaching for Sustainability and Change
Part 2: Pedagogies of (Re)connection 6. A Sense of Beauty in Belonging to the Whole 7. Developing Sustainability Education Through Small-Scale Interventions 8. Walking Towards Embodied Understanding 9. Entanglements: 'Story Telling for Earthly Survival' 10. Understanding Sustainability Pedagogy in Practice
Part 3: (Higher) education as if the world mattered 11. Wilding Higher Education: From Monoculture to Messy Margins 12. Researching "Education for Sustainability": Undergraduate Trainees Join the Dots 13. What We Must Do Now: The Response(ability) of Universities to the Global Crises 14. Good (Higher) Education in a Fragile World
About the author
Alan Bainbridge is Reader in Education at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh and Visiting Reader in Education and Sustainability at Canterbury Christ Church University.
Nicola Kemp is Reader in Education for Sustainable Futures at Canterbury Christ Church University.
