Ecological Principles for Sustainable Education - Challenging Root Metaphors and the Industrial Schooling System

This book explores how the education sector can transition to being truly sustainable and why necessary innovations for educational change are being subverted and undermined when mapped onto the existing Industrial educational system.

List of contents

Part 1. Envisioning the Future 1. Visions of a Sustainable Future and the Role of Education Part 2. What is Holding us Back? 2. The Story of School Part 3. Creative Solutions 3. At the Crossroads: Guiding Principles of Sustainable Living Systems 4. Organization, Administration and Leadership to Support Transformative Learning and Systems Thinking 5. The Hidden Curriculum: Buildings, Grounds, and Resources 6. Curriculum: A Living Systems Framework 7. Teaching and Learning: Empowering Change Part 4. Next Steps: Adaptation and Emergence in Transitioning to Sustainable Education 8: Transitioning Organizational Structure, Administration, and Leadership 9. Transitioning Buildings, Grounds, and Resources 10. Transitioning Curriculum 11. Transitioning Teaching and Learning 12. The Whole is Greater than the Sum of Its Parts

About the author

Dr. Liza Ireland is Associate Faculty in the School of Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University, Canada, and founder of Changing Climates Educational Society.

Product details

• Authors: Liza Ireland, Liza (Royal Roads University Ireland
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032485478
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248547-8
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: Routledge Research in Educational Leadership
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Sustainability, EDUCATION / General, EDUCATION / Philosophy, Theory & Social Aspects, EDUCATION / Leadership, teacher training, Philosophy & theory of education, Educational strategies & policy, Philosophy and theory of education, Curriculum planning & development, Educational strategies and policy, Curriculum planning and development