This handbook discusses the concept of sustainable education as a tool for institutional leadership, educational program development, and developing course and lecture materials. It focuses on the challenges of sustainable development and explains how these challenges require a revised pedagogical approach in preparing modern students for the 21st century.
The handbook volume explores the role of education, training, and development in answering the rising issues of climate change, resource depletion, population growth, pollution, and land degradation. Focusing on the core concepts and contexts involved in modern sustainability education, the handbook provides a broad multi- and trans-disciplinary introduction to sustainability discourses across a wide spectrum of disciplinary perspectives on sustainability education such as key concepts, important contexts, useful pedagogy, and ideas on curriculum development.
This unique handbook will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of education, higher education, sustainability, and sustainable education. It will also be useful for academicians, educationalists, educators, curriculum developers, and general public readers interested in understanding the sustainability challenges.
About the Author: Michele John is Director, Sustainable Engineering Group (SEG), Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
