
Sustainability in Higher Education
Description
Key Features
- Focus on sustainability
- Present studies in aspects related with higher education
- Explores a variety of educational aspects from an sustainable perspective
Readership
Table of Contents
1: Putting sustainable development in practice: campus greening as a tool for institutional sustainability efforts
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Role and areas of campus greening
- 1.3 Overview and evaluation of campus greening efforts
- 1.4 Discussion
- 1.5 Lessons learned and needs to be addressed
- 1.6 Conclusions
2: Management education for sustainability: deriving learning formats from competence requirements
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 New profession requires profound management education for sustainability
- 2.3 Corporate change agents for sustainability: competence requirements to manage corporate sustainability
- 2.4 Learning formats to educate change agents for sustainability
- 2.5 Conclusion
3: U.S. and international community-based sustainability projects for deep learning
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Background: high-impact educational practices, deep learning, and stakeholder outcomes
- 3.3 WPI: interactive qualifying projects
- 3.4 Interactive community-based projects and deep learning
- 3.5 Common challenges
- 3.6 Lessons learned
- 3.7 Summary and conclusion
4: Inculcating sustainability among first-year engineering students using cooperative problem-based learning
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 The cooperative problem-based learning model
- 4.3 Learning environment design in the introduction to engineering course
- 4.4 Example problem the introduction to engineering course
- 4.5 Study on the impact of the learning environment
- 4.6 Conclusion
5: Sustainability in engineering education: an approach to reach significant learning and character skills
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Sustainability in higher engineering education
- 5.3 A qualitative, longitudinal research of students’ sustainable behavior in a Mexican HEI
- 5.4 Results and discussion
- 5.5 Concluding remarks
Product details
- No. of pages: 144
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Chandos Publishing 2015
- Published: August 21, 2015
- Imprint: Chandos Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081003671
- eBook ISBN: 9780081003756
About the Editor
J. Paulo Davim
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