Higher Education for Sustainability. New Challenges from a Global Perspective – Contents
Volume 1 of the series „Higher Education for Sustainability“
Edited by Gerd Michelsen
The book series „Higher Education for Sustainability“ provides information
and experiences on the question of how sustainable development may be
applied as a guiding principle for university education, and how it may be
implemented in sustainability-related research activities. A variety of
different political, methodological, and didactical approaches are intended
to form an intricate mosaic of ongoing activities from around the world in
the field of higher education. The series aims at stimulating international
cooperation and intercultural dialogue on higher education for sustainable
development. It is edited by Prof. Dr. Gerd Michelsen, holder of the
UNESCO Chair ‘Higher Education for Sustainable Development’, based at
the University of Lüneburg (www.uni-lueneburg.de/infu/chair).
Maik Adomssent /Jasmin Godemann / Alexander Leicht / Anne Busch (Eds.) (2006):
Higher Education for Sustainability. New Challenges from a Global Perspective.
VAS – Verlag für Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 271 pages.
ISBN: 978-3-88864-423-8 / 16,80 Euro
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................................................... 9
INTRODUCTION
Maik Adomssent
Higher Education for Sustainability: Challenges and Obligations from
a Global Perspective .................................................................................................................. 10
PART I:
THE UN DECADE ‘EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT’ AND THE ROLE OF UNESCO
Walter Hirche
Educating for a More Humane Globalisation .............................................................................. 24
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Roland Bernecker
A Partnership Approach: Implementing the UN Decade of Education
for Sustainable Development in Germany .................................................................................. 30
Alexander Leicht
The UNESCO Chairs Programme .............................................................................................. 39
Gerd Michelsen
Higher Education for Sustainable Development: The UNESCO
Chair at the University of Lüneburg ............................................................................................ 46
PART II: FOCUSSING UPON HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Antonietta Di Giulio
Education for Sustainable Development – What Does It Mean and What
Should Students Learn? ............................................................................................................. 60
Günter Altner
Ethical and Methodical Aspects of the Concept of Sustainability for
Academia’s Contribution to Sustainability Research – Seven Theses........................................ 67
Yaacov Iram
Education of Minorities: A Global Challenge for Sustainable Development ................................79
Jagdish S. Gundara
Intercultural Studies, Sustainable Development and Higher Education ..................................... 87
Lenelis Kruse
Methodological Reflections on Learning and Teaching Sustainability in Higher Education...... 101
Michael Herrmann
Education for Sustainability through Experiential Learning ...................................................... 114
John Fien
Capacity Building for a Sustainable University ......................................................................... 119
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PART III:
ADVOCATING THE ADOPTION OF HESD: PROGRESS REPORTS FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES
Sonia Marta Mora-Escalante
Education for Sustainable Development: A View from Latin America ...................................... 130
Debra Rowe
Education for Sustainable Development in the US – an Update .............................................. 145
Luz María Nieto-Caraveo & Pedro Medellín-Milán
Environment, Sustainability and Higher Education in Mexico: Institutional Underpinnings
and the Strategies and Contributions of Public Universities ..................................................... 155
Carl Lindberg
Implementing HESD in Sweden ............................................................................................... 165
Jacques J. Paulus S. J.
Ecodevelopment and Ethnosciences – Strategies and Tools of
Sustainable Development in the Democratic Republic of Congo ............................................. 177
Alireza Mesdaghinia, Ramin Nabizadeh, Simin Nasseri & Jafar Nouri
Environmental Education in Iran – Present Situation and Future Plans.....................................182
H. M. Nissanka Warakaulle
Intercultural and Global Learning – a Special Reference to Sri Lanka. .................................... 191
PART IV: HESD IN ACTION – EXAMPLES FROM AROUND THE WORLD
Matthias Barth & Jasmin Godemann
Study Programme Sustainability – a Way to Impart Competencies
for Handling Sustainability? ...................................................................................................... 198
Ron J. M. Cörvers
European Virtual Seminar on Sustainable Development –
The International Classroom .................................................................................................... 208
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Imke Lode
Studying Digital Media at the International School of New Media
(ISNM): International, Intercultural, Sustainability-oriented ...................................................... 215
Jordi Segalàs, Didac Ferrer-Balas & Karel Mulder
Embedding Sustainability in Engineering Education –
Experiences from Dutch and Spanish Technical Universities .................................................. 220
Karine Danielyan & Artak Sahradyan
Experience of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
in the Republic of Armenia ....................................................................................................... 226
Mu Choon Lee
Eco Campus in South Korea. A Case Study of Yonsei
University Wonju Campus......................................................................................................... 230
Clemens Mader & Gerhard Schlacher
Exchanging Knowledge and Good Practices of Education for Sustainable
Development within a Global Student Organisation (oikos) ..................................................... 238
Raimonds Ernšteins
Partnerships between Municipalities and Universities as Means to Promote
Regional and Local Sustainable Development in Latvia .......................................................... 245
Ute Stoltenberg
Sustainable Development and Learning for Sustainability
through a Regional Network Project – The Wielkopolska Project ............................................ 251
Janet Moore
The Learning City Project: Enabling Sustainability Education in Action ................................... 256
ABOUT THE AUTHORS ................................................................................................................ 264