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Wyness, Lynne; Sterling, Stephen – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to present an overview of the design and implementation of a curriculum review undertaken at Plymouth University, UK, to gauge the incidence and status of sustainability in degree programmes across the curriculum. The paper outlines the methodological approach taken, reviews findings and summarises the effects and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Programs, College Curriculum, Incidence
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Sterling, Stephen – Environmental Education Research, 2010
This explorative paper works across discourses to suggest the possibility and potential of an integrative paradigm for sustainability education that reconciles instrumental and intrinsic educational traditions, informed and infused by resilience theory and social learning. It argues that such an integrative view is required in the context of the…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Socialization, Environmental Education, Models
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Blake, Joanna; Sterling, Stephen – Environmental Education Research, 2011
This paper explores the impact of short immersive residentials at a radical institution for staff currently working in a mainstream one; in this instance, at Schumacher College for those at the nearby University of Plymouth (UK). Schumacher is an independent, alternative college offering residential courses in "transformative learning for…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Transformative Learning, Scholarships, Environmental Education
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Cotton, Debby R. E.; Miller, Wendy; Winter, Jennie; Bailey, Ian; Sterling, Stephen – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2015
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate students' energy literacy at a UK university, and recommends ways in which it can be enhanced using a behaviour change model. Developing students' energy literacy is a key part of the "greening" agenda, yet little is known about how students develop their ideas about energy use and energy saving at…
Descriptors: Energy, Scientific Literacy, Science Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Sterling, Stephen; Witham, Heather – Environmental Education Research, 2008
The Higher Education Academy (HEA) is a UK-wide organisation that works with higher education institutions and 24 discipline-based Subject Centres to improve the student learning experience. This paper outlines the work of one of its initiatives, the HEA ESD Project. While a small part of the Academy's overall work, the Project is attracting…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Experience, Student Experience, Improvement Programs
Sterling, Stephen R., Ed. – Annual Review of Environmental Education, 1991
The purpose of this annual publication is to report, evaluate, encourage, and help guide progress in Environmental Education (EE) in the United Kingdom and to provide information on important initiatives and comparative international developments. Issues and priorities are identified with an emphasis on current EE philosophy rather than practice…
Descriptors: British National Curriculum, Core Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Educational Development