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Janssens, Lise; Kuppens, Tom; Mulà, Ingrid; Staniskiene, Egle; Zimmermann, Anne B. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: A transition toward sustainable development requires engagement of university students in transformative learning. Therefore, quality frameworks and processes should support deep approaches to sustainable development in higher education. Research and initiatives that connect sustainable development, higher education and quality assurance…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Quality Assurance, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning
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Cude, Michelle Dawn; Kisirkoi, Florence – Journal of International Social Studies, 2018
How do we equip future teachers to create a more sustainable world? This study follows one teacher educator from the US seeking to bring change and support new pedagogical ideologies within Kenya. The research question is, Can one class on transformative teacher education make a difference in training future teachers?
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Social Change, Sustainable Development
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Bedi, Gitanjali; Germein, Susan – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2016
This article proposes that Education for Sustainability (EfS), with its focus on transformative and learner-centred approaches, and higher order thinking skills, enriches teaching and learning in Vocational Education and Training (VET), with implications for quality pedagogy more generally. EfS pedagogy has the potential to inform a new discourse…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Transformative Learning, Vocational Education
Kwauk, Christina – Center for Universal Education at The Brookings Institution, 2020
The urgency of the climate crisis demands not only greater coherence and coordination of education efforts, but also a deep reexamination of the education sector's role in the perpetuation of the status quo. This applies across formal education institutions (primary, secondary, and tertiary school), non-formal programs (often delivered by…
Descriptors: Climate, Change, Role of Education, Conservation (Environment)
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Mogren, Anna; Gericke, Niklas – Environmental Education Research, 2017
Previous research has suggested that adopting a transformative school organisation perspective when implementing ESD may be more productive than the previously recommended transmissive perspectives, but it is not clear how transformative perspectives could be introduced. To address this issue, we conducted an empirical mixed methods study of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Quality
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Gokool-Ramdoo, Sushita; Rumjaun, Anwar Bhai – Journal of Learning for Development, 2017
Critical pedagogy, practitioner experience and a regulatory perspective are employed to scrutinize the notion of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as it occurs in the literature. They promote understanding of the challenges impeding the completion of unfinished ESD businesses. In response to practitioner-expressed needs, this paper…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Guidelines, Critical Theory
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MacCallum, Cathryn; Salam, Insiya – International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2014
The implementation of global education in schools has, despite the plethora of different terms used to describe it, been defined by an approach that ensures global issues are embedded (1) in the curriculum (a subject-specific approach), (2) across all subject areas (an interdisciplinary approach), and (3) in the school's ethos (a…
Descriptors: Global Education, Communities of Practice, Professional Development, Creative Thinking
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Pavlova, Margarita – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2013
When education for sustainable development (ESD) emerged as part of the educational agenda in the international arena, it was associated with significant shifts in the educational debate about the purpose and nature of education and with the need to respond to crises caused by the modern idea of progress. Scientists from different fields warn…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development, Ethics, Educational Research
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Avoseh, Mejai B. M., Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2018
These "Proceedings" derived from the Commission for International Adult Education's (CIAE) 2018 International Pre-Conference. They contain 23 papers from 32 authors. Eight of the lead authors are graduate students -- four are rounding up their Master's degrees while four are on their doctoral programs. The rest are a mix of seasoned and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Role of Education, Innovation, Technology Uses in Education