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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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Improving Group Processes in Transdisciplinary Case Studies for Sustainability Learning
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Hansmann, Ralf; Crott, Helmut W.; Mieg, Harald A.; Scholz, Roland W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2009
Purpose: Deficient group processes such as conformity pressure can lead to inadequate group decisions with negative social, economic, or environmental consequences. The study aims to investigate how a group technique (called INFO) improves students' handling of conformity pressure and their collective judgments in the context of a…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Questionnaires, Social Behavior, Group Dynamics
Higher Education as a Change Agent for Sustainability in Different Cultures and Contexts
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Stephens, Jennie C.; Hernandez, Maria E.; Roman, Mikael; Graham, Amanda C.; Scholz, Roland W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose :The goal of this paper is to enhance consideration for the potential for institutions of higher education throughout the world, in different cultures and contexts, to be change agents for sustainability. As society faces unprecedented and increasingly urgent challenges associated with accelerating environmental change, resource scarcity,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Change Agents, Sustainable Development, Cultural Context
Transdisciplinary Case Studies as a Means of Sustainability Learning: Historical Framework and Theory
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Scholz, Roland W.; Lang, Daniel J.; Wiek, Arnim; Walter, Alexander I.; Stauffacher, Michael – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: This paper aims at presenting the theoretical concepts of the transdisciplinary case study approach (TCS), which is a research and teaching approach developed and elaborated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), as a means of transition support. Design/methodology/approach: The paper reveals the historical roots of case…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Case Studies, Sustainable Development, Epistemology