Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This book explores how higher education and sustainability interact in New Zealand and develops a case that higher education at present is as much part of the problem of unsustainability as part of the solution to it. It considers how education, and higher education in particular, works alongside a wide range of other life experiences that likely impact on individual's beliefs and actions. Also, it envisions a higher education that prepares graduates able to decide for themselves what their contribution to a sustainable future might be. This book addresses those aspects of higher education best placed to support the development of student's dispositions to think deeply, critically and independently about the world, and how higher education will know if it is on the right track.
Synopsis
Part 1.- Chapter 1 About Higher Education for Sustainable Development and for Sustainability in New Zealand, and Elsewhere.- Chapter 2 Campus Sustainability.- Chapter 3 University Teacher as Critic and Conscience of Society.- Chapter 4 Environmental Education in New Zealand.- Chapter 5 Roles and Responsibilities for Higher Education in New Zealand, and Elsewhere.- Chapter 6 Global Perspectives and Competitive Individualism.- Part 2.- Chapter 7 What Guides Our Beliefs and Actions?.- Chapter 8 On Deep, Critical and Independent Thinking and Why It Is So Challenging for Higher Education to Teach These Things.- Part 3.- Chapter 9 Community Engagement and Higher Education's Third Mission.- Chapter 10 Empowering Students in Higher Education.- Chapter 11 On Assessment and Evaluation, and Researching the Practices of Higher Education.- A Final Conversation with a Critical Friend.