Good Education in a Fragile World - The Value of a Collaborative Contextualised Approach to

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.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Kemp Bainbridge
• Assisted by: Bainbridge Alan (Editor), Nicola Kemp (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032260983
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3226098-3
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Sustainability, NATURE / Ecology, EDUCATION / Curricula, EDUCATION / Administration / Higher, Environmentalist thought & ideology, Teaching skills and techniques, Educational strategies & policy, Social impact of environmental issues, Moral and social purpose of education, Teaching skills & techniques, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Curriculum planning & development, Higher education, tertiary education, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Moral & social purpose of education, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development