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Shephard, Kerry – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2008
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to interpret aspects of education for sustainability in relation to educational theories of the affective domain (values, attitudes and behaviours) and suggest how the use of these theories, and relevant experience, in other educational areas could benefit education for sustainability.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Role Models, Educational Theories, Teaching Methods
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Murray, Paul E.; Murray, Sheran A. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2007
Purpose: This paper aims to analyse an initiative to provide learners on "career-based" programmes with opportunities to reflect upon their values within the context of sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: An international literature review relating values and behaviour to the sustainability agenda led to the development of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Individual Activities, Criticism, Values
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Steiner, G.; Laws, D. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: The main focus of this paper is to discuss appropriate forms of higher education for building up students' competence for working on complex real-world problems. Design/methodology/approach: Within this paper the Harvard approach is accurately compared with the ETH approach by discussing theoretical and practical implications as well.…
Descriptors: Guidance, Higher Education, Case Studies, Comparative Analysis
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Clarke, Amelia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: To challenge the deliberate strategy approach of the environmental management system (EMS) cycle, and offer a model based on both the practical reality experienced at Dalhousie University and emergent strategy theory. Also, to share some of the lessons learned in the 15 years of environmental management at Dalhousie University.…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Strategic Planning, Environmental Standards, Case Studies
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Sherren, Kate – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2006
Purpose: In addition to mapping the consistency in rhetoric behind education for sustainability, despite changes in jargon over the past 30 years, this paper endeavours to estimate the degree to which these ideas have been integrated into the Australian tertiary sector. Design/methodology/approach: The results of a recent internet-based audit of…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Jargon, Foreign Countries, Educational Change