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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Integrative Role of the Campus Environmental Audit: Experiences at Bishop's University, Canada
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Bardati, Darren R. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper seeks to suggest that the campus environmental audit can become an important tool that synergizes active learning and operations planning and management approaches to promote sustainability on university campuses. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents the author's experiences at Bishop's University with the evolution…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Audits (Verification), Campuses, Active Learning
Developing and Applying Green Building Technology in an Indigenous Community: An Engaged Approach to Sustainability Education
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Riley, David R.; Thatcher, Corinne E.; Workman, Elizabeth A. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims to disseminate an innovative approach to sustainability education in construction-related fields in which teaching, research, and service are integrated to provide a unique learning experience for undergraduate students, faculty members, and community partners. Design/methodology/approach: The paper identifies the need for…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education, Architecture, Environmental Education
Going "out There": Learning about Sustainability in Place
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Alvarez, Amaya; Rogers, Judy – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe how the authors shifted from teaching about sustainability as though it was fixed and definable, to a way of learning about the multiple ways in which sustainability is contested and understood. This shift involved both an epistemological shift in their understanding of sustainability and a shift…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Learning Experience, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
Initiating Transdisciplinarity in Academic Case Study Teaching: Experiences from a Regional Development Project in Salzburg, Austria
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Muhar, Andreas; Vilsmaier, Ulli; Glanzer, Michaela; Freyer, Bernhard – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to describe experiences with the initiation of transdisciplinarity in academic case study teaching with special reference to regional planning, based on the case study "Leben 2014 (Life 2014)--perspectives for regional development in the national park region Ober-pinz-gau, Salzburg".…
Descriptors: Regional Planning, Cooperation, Parks, Foreign Countries
Learning to Research Environmental Problems from a Functional Socio-Cultural Constructivism Perspective: The Transdisciplinary Case Study Approach
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Stauffacher, M.; Walter, A. I.; Lang, D. J.; Wiek, A.; Scholz, R. W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present the transdisciplinary case study (TCS) as a learning framework based on what we call functional socio-cultural constructivism and project-based learning (PBL). In doing so, the paper attempts to illustrate the applicability of TCS to learn competencies and skills necessary to research problems of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), World Problems, Research Problems, Student Projects
Integrating Research and Teaching on Innovation for Sustainable Development
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Posch, Alfred; Steiner, Gerald – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to point out the necessity of implementing more appropriate approaches instead of the traditional single disciplinary approaches, in order to be able to cope with the ill-defined, highly complex problem of sustainable development in systems such as organizations or regions. Design/methodology/approach: Based…
Descriptors: Innovation, Case Studies, Sustainable Development, Internet
Campus Sustainability Audit Research in Atlantic Canada: Pioneering the Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework
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Beringer, Almut – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: To introduce the campus sustainability assessment framework (CSAF) as a campus sustainability audit methodology; to share student campus sustainability audit research; to reflect on using the CSAF for pedagogy; to review the usefulness of the CSAF as an action research instrument; to encourage other faculty/sustainability educators to…
Descriptors: Campuses, Environmental Education, Activism, Action Research