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Direct linkBedford, Timothy – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2023
Japan is facing a problem of depopulation of rural and island communities. This research focuses on the island of Nakanoshima (Ama-cho), which has dramatically declined in population in the past 70 years. In 2007, the High School faced the threat of closure due to declining numbers, and were it to close would have further hastened the decline of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Community Development, Foreign Countries, Place Based Education
Madeo, Elena – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2021
This article aims to understand how the public higher education sector is dealing with new challenges, like sustainability in services provision and delivery, which means to fulfil all the functions of a university. In order to fulfil their mission and be sustainable, the public higher education sector should start an innovation process, through…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Colleges, Higher Education, Educational Finance
Kuzich, Sonja; Taylor, Elisabeth; Taylor, Peter Charles – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2015
Schools willing to implement education for sustainability (EfS) commonly find themselves confronted with curricula, school grounds and buildings and teaching practices that do not lend themselves easily to best practice EfS. In this article, we present what we learned about some of the challenges confronted daily by the staff of a purpose-built…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Best Practices, Primary Education
McClam, Sherie; Diefenbacher, Lori – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2015
The metaphor of talking "over the fence" underscores the neutrality of tools. Shovels and hoes do the job, but the gardener creates the transformation of earth to food. Each garden requires a unique approach. Such are the tools of education for sustainable development (ESD). Pre-packaged textbooks and toolkits provide definitions and…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Communities of Practice, Sociocultural Patterns, Learning Theories
Qian, Wei – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2013
Higher education institutions have been encouraged to prepare their graduates to be socially and environmentally responsible professionals. However, previous studies have found a slow uptake of education for sustainable development (ESD) in university curricula, particularly in non-environmental disciplines. This paper investigates the process of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Accounting
de la Harpe, Barbara; Thomas, Ian – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2009
Many universities have begun to introduce curriculum innovation and change to facilitate the curricular integration of generic skills underlying education for sustainable development (ESD). However, the literature and research in the area to date show few successful examples of comprehensive large-scale curriculum change. From the literature on…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Sustainable Development, Higher Education
