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Direct linkRobinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Sarah Ferguson; Tristan Snell – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
Although individuals are exposed to a variety of pro-environmental influences in childhood, it is unclear which has the biggest impact on adult beliefs and behaviour. The aim of the current study therefore examined how formal sustainability education and childhood caregiver pro-environmental motivations, beliefs and behaviour, influence…
Descriptors: Caregivers, Environmental Education, Children, Adults
Zoe Mintoff; Peter Andersen; Jane Warren; Sue Elliott; Carolan Nicholson; Helen Byfield-Fleming; Fiona Barber – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
The ideal period for implementing environmental education or education for sustainability is during the early childhood years. The educational context of playgroups can be a platform for both children and their parents to learn together and together engage in early childhood education for sustainability (ECEfS), however there is a paucity of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Childrens Attitudes, Attitude Change, Positive Attitudes
Amanda England; Jo Bird; Sue Elliott; Marg Rogers – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Integral to the global nature play movement, nature play programs have flourished over the last decade, both in Australia and internationally. Internationally, there are two prominent schools of thought in this movement, Danish Nature Kindergartens, and British Forest Schools. The underpinning philosophy of Danish Nature Kindergarten programs has…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Play
Martek, Igor; Hosseini, M. Reza; Durdyev, Serdar; Arashpour, Mehrdad; Edwards, David J. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Universities have recognized their rich endowments in research, academic skills and facilities, as uniquely suited to finding "green" solutions. Moreover, the campus setting itself presents as a microcosm of greater society through which to investigate and test innovations. Thus, the "living lab" was born, a means of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Outcomes of Education, Laboratories
Lee Del Col; Garth Stahl – Australian Educational Researcher, 2024
Within a neoliberal educational policy context, we are increasingly witness to educational leaders compelled to become strategic operators to ensure the survival of their schools. Drawing on the tenets of institutional ethnography (IE), this article traces the everyday work and experience of a school leader in one Australian private school site…
Descriptors: Neoliberalism, Educational Policy, Private Schools, Foreign Countries
'Over to You': Considering the Purpose of Education through a Student-Centred Sustainability Project
Jackson, Kirsty – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2023
The school strikes for climate action that began with Greta Thunberg in 2018 and spread worldwide in 2019, left many young people to ponder 'what is the "point" of education if we have no future?' In this investigation of a student-centred project on sustainability conducted with Year 4 students in Brisbane, the "point" of…
Descriptors: Role of Education, Student Centered Learning, Student Projects, Sustainability
Natasha Pearce; Helen Monks; Narelle Alderman; Lydia Hearn; Sharyn Burns; Kevin Runions; Jacinta Francis; Donna Cross – International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 2024
Student bullying behaviours are a significant social issue in schools worldwide. Whilst school staff have access to quality bullying prevention interventions, schools can face significant challenges implementing the whole-school approach required to address the complexity of these behaviours. This study aimed to understand how schools' capacity to…
Descriptors: Bullying, Holistic Approach, Prevention, Intervention
Andrea Cuesta-Claros; Gary Bonar; Shirin Malekpour; Rob Raven; Tahl Kestin – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This case study explores different perspectives on integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in universities to achieve university transformations. This study recognises that university actors think differently about the purpose of universities, hold diverse perspectives on the SDGs, and, thus, prefer specific types of SDG…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Goal Orientation, Educational Change, Sustainability
Ellen Casey; Misol Kim; Alan Reid – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Three decades of international recommendations have highlighted the importance of advancing gender equality in achieving the aims of Education for Sustainability (EfS) at all levels of education. However, there has been a persistent disconnect between considerations of gender and sustainability in early childhood education (ECE). This article…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Sustainability, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers
Download full textBeasley, Kimberly – International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 2023
This study contributes to the research in Early Childhood Education for Sustainability (ECEfS) by exploring a case study of two Western Australian early childhood education classes who welcomed an Indigenous Elder to share their expertise about the native plants in the schools' bush space. The findings from this study demonstrate the impact…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Sustainability, Indigenous Knowledge
Kriewaldt, Jeana; Lee, Shu Jun – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2023
Preparing school teachers goes beyond equipping them with instrumental knowledge of curriculum, pedagogy, and experiences of how this can be enacted in practice. They must be prepared to understand and encompass compelling social issues of justice, equity, and sustainability. To do this they need to understand pressing environmental issues as a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Knowledge Level, Environmental Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
One aim of vocational education and training (VET) is to provide a pathway to employment. The effectiveness of this, particularly for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, is an important policy issue. Research demonstrates that, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, the transition from education to employment does not occur…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Education Work Relationship, Employment, Indigenous Populations
Knight, Linda – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
Examining the connections between geontologic and interrelational theories of place counter-mapping practices offers important methodological and pedagogic lessons in environmental sustainability education. Notably, the cultural counter-mapping undertaken by BIPOC women can educate on how cardinal ethics and mapping underpin ecological learning.…
Descriptors: Feminism, Females, Minority Groups, Environmental Education
Malone, Karen; Young, Tracy – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2023
This paper is an exploration of evolving ideas, urgencies, and actions that we have experimented with in our teaching of an environmental sustainability subject with pre-service teachers at an Australian university. It is a work in progress. Through this shared educator-student teaching and learning process we feel the tensions of contradictory…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Sustainability, Higher Education
