Subject Index

Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development

ISBN: 978-1-78973-640-3, eISBN: 978-1-78973-639-7

ISSN: 2055-3641

Publication date: 27 May 2020

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(2020), "Subject Index", Sengupta, E., Blessinger, P. and Yamin, T.S. (Ed.) Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 19), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 249-256. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120200000019020

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INDEX

Academic culture
, 26

Academies
, 16–19

learning in
, 23–25

Acceptability
, 33

Active citizenship
, 23

Adult education
, 23–24

Adult Learning and Education (ALE)
, 160, 169–172

Adult learning theories
, 16

Africa Book Development Trust (ABDT)
, 165–166

Agenda 2030
, 108–110

AIGA’s Living Principles
, 53

Anthropocene
, 74–76

outcomes
, 78–80

research approach
, 77–78

sustainability in higher education
, 76–77

“Anthropocene-friendly” understanding of sustainability
, 79

Anthropocenic Turn
, 79

Applied learning
, 217–218

Assessment
, 10, 59, 67

current practice assessments
, 68

design on student approaches to learning
, 63

research in
, 63–64

Assistant Vice-Chancellor (Sustainability) (AVCS)
, 199

Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
, 147–148

Big Tent Consortium
, 108

Biggs’ 3P model
, 60

Bioenergy Research and Demonstration Facility (BRDF)
, 221–222

Biomimicry
, 45–46

Biophilia
, 45–46

Bloom’s revised taxonomy
, 60

Brain function
, 22

Brock Commons Tallwood House case study
, 222

Brookhaven College (BHC)
, 144

“Buy and throw” mentality
, 144

Campus as a Living Laboratory (CLL)
, 11, 214

case studies of research and learning
, 218

CIRS
, 217–218

education and engagement
, 219–220

enablers and impact of CLL on campus
, 223–224

large-scale research projects
, 221–223

small scope research studies
, 220–221

sustainability at UBC
, 214–216

types of opportunities
, 218–219

UBC CLL
, 216–217

Campus Sustainability Office (CSO)
, 215

Capacity building programs
, 5

Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS)
, 217–218

Chief executive officer (CEO)
, 163

CL-program
, 179–180

CLAQWA rubrics
, 63–64

“Closed-loop” PjBL
, 67–68

Coalition
, 24

Code of Ethics
, 178

Cognitive functioning
, 24

Coherent framework
, 61

Collective awareness and attention
, 22–23

Community

college
, 145–148, 151

community-oriented approaches
, 61–62, 68

engagement
, 118

learning
, 170

Concept map (Cmap)
, 64–65, 68

Confidence gap
, 9, 190, 192

Consensus
, 129–130

Contextualization for sustainability
, 69

Corporate social responsibility (CSR)
, 147

Corporate sustainability (CS)
, 147

Covert method
, 151

Critical openness
, 200–202

video dialogues as mechanism for
, 206–208

Critical thinking
, 152

Cultural commons
, 17, 20

embracing
, 20–21

revitalization of
, 21

Cultural ecologies
, 21

Curriculum
, 59, 75, 78

strategies
, 4, 6

structure, focus, and history
, 132–133

sustainability in
, 79

Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD)
, 147–148

Deep learning principles
, 84

Deliberation
, 84–85, 95

Deliberative democracy principles and practices
, 85–86

Deliberative Dialogue (DD)
, 12, 84–86

author’s context
, 86–87

general flow of activity
, 87

issue guide
, 87–88

questions and ponderings
, 93–95

rationale
, 88

reflections and findings
, 88–91

scaffolded activities
, 87

session implementation
, 88

at work
, 87–91

Democracy
, 170

Democratic classroom practices
, 86

Descriptive research design
, 150

Design thinking
, 208

as signature pedagogy
, 200–202

Design Thinking for Sustainability (DSDN183)
, 10, 198–201, 208

semi-structured focus group interview questions for DSDN183 students
, 211

Diagnosis-solution problems
, 32–33

Digital Interaction
, 45

Disagreement
, 129–130

Discipline considerations and views
, 133

Early College High School (ECHS)
, 149

Earth system science
, 75

Eco-centric and Anthropocentric Attitudes toward Environment scale (EAAT SD)
, 126

Eco-intelligence
, 21, 23

Eco-Schools
, 110

Ecojustice curriculum framework
, 19

embracing cultural commons
, 20–21

redressing conceptions of intelligence
, 21–23

Ecojustice Leadership Academy
, 17–18

Ecological/ecology
, 21, 44

of democracy
, 86

dimension of SD
, 188

Footprint analysis
, 215

intelligence
, 22

Economic

inclusion
, 163

market system
, 144

sustainability
, 188

Education
, 5, 16, 154, 160–161, 163, 172

adult
, 170

civic
, 165–166, 172

in FHS
, 169

forms of
, 167–168

free adult provision
, 172

gender disparities in
, 171

rural residents in accessing
, 165

Education 2030 Framework for Action
, 160, 171

Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
, 5, 84, 109, 124

transformative nature of
, 36–37

Educational outcomes
, 203–206

Educational reforms in ecojustice education
, 19

Effectiveness
, 33

Employability
, 23

Empowerment
, 163

Engineers
, 178

role/responsibilities in SD
, 187, 190

English for speakers of other languages (ESOL)
, 149

Environment, economy and social equality (Three “Es”)
, 77

Environmental protection
, 42

Environment–economy integration
, 188

ePortfolios
, 63–64

Ethics
, 153

Examinations
, 59, 64, 67

Exercises
, 59

Facilitators
, 35, 92

Faculty awareness
, 146

Faculty interviews
, 132

curriculum structure, focus, and history
, 132–133

discipline considerations and views
, 133

lecturer experiences and transformation
, 134–135

organizational contrasts and tensions
, 135

strong and weak sustainability
, 133–134

students characteristics and consequences
, 136

sustainability principles, definitions, and practices
, 135–136

Faculty Learning Communities (FLC)
, 145–146

Folk High Schools (FHS)
, 164, 168–169

“Folkbildning”
, 167–168

Formal education system
, 168

Forward Thinking Conference in Oslo
, 45

Frameworks for sustainability teaching
, 61

Future scenarios
, 46

building
, 46–48

ethical journey
, 47–48

Gender Equality
, 205

Geology
, 74–75

Global Action Programme (GAP)
, 12

Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development (GAP ESD)
, 108

Global Goals (see Sustainable development goals (SDGs))

Graphic Design
, 45

Green Building Action Plan
, 218–219

Green-washing
, 81

Greenhouse gas (GHG)
, 216

Halifax Declaration
, 214

Hannover Principles
, 53

Higher education (HE)
, 86, 108, 144–145

sustainability in
, 76–77

Higher education institution (HEI)
, 6, 109

Holism
, 6

Human Capital theory
, 162

Incheon Declaration
, 161

Indigenous knowledge
, 47

Indigenous wisdom
, 47

Informal feedback from students
, 38

Institutional culture
, 223

Institutions
, 127–128

Instructional design on student achievement
, 60

Intelligence, redressing conceptions of
, 21–23

Interdisciplinarity
, 198–199, 204, 207

Interdisciplinary approach
, 146–147

Interdisciplinary learning for sustainability
, 199–200

Interdisciplinary problem-based approach
, 30

beginnings
, 30–31

development of approach
, 33–36

pilot
, 31–33

preparing ground
, 31

transformative nature of education for SD
, 36–37

Interdisciplinary thinking
, 204

Interior and Environmental Design
, 45

International Association of Universities (IAU)
, 108

Involve (European-based organization)
, 85

Jewellery & Silversmithing
, 45

Kaitiakitanga
, 201–202

Knowledge of engaged curriculum
, 16

Leadership
, 223

in sustainable development
, 214

Learning (see also Sustainability learning)

in academies
, 23–25

activities
, 59

lifelong
, 160–162

models
, 60–61

objectives
, 61

service
, 62

shared
, 164

society
, 160, 162–163

strategies
, 5

Learning and Teaching as Communicative Action theory (LTCA)
, 151

Lecturer experiences and transformation
, 134–135

Life cycle assessments (LCA)
, 218

Life cycle costing (LCC)
, 222–223

Life’s Principles
, 53

Lifelong learning
, 160–162

Linkage density
, 52

Local democracies
, 21

Manoa scenario building method
, 46

Market-led growth
, 131

Master program
, 179, 224

Mātauranga Māori
, 201

Mediation
, 26

Meta-analyses of student achievement
, 63

Meta-cognitive awareness of assessment practices
, 63

Metro Vancouver
, 214

Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
, 42–43, 160–161

Modified essay questions
, 32, 38

Montréal Design Declaration
, 45

Moral imperatives
, 77

Municipal Adult Education (MAE)
, 168–169

Narrative assignment
, 152

National funding
, 35

National Issues Forum/Kettering Institute (NIFI)
, 86–88

Natural commons
, 20

Nature-based intelligences
, 45

Negotiated syllabus (see Syllabus Deliberation method)

“Nested circles” model
, 189

Online assessment communities
, 63–64

Online working
, 35

Open-book “power” exams
, 68

Organizational contrasts and tensions
, 135

Oslo Manifesto
, 45

Overt method
, 151

Paired sample t-test
, 184–185

Paradigm shifts in higher education
, 37

Participants
, 149

Personal stakes
, 93

Phenomenology
, 7, 150

Philosophy course
, 153

Pluralism
, 6

Polling techniques
, 93

Postgraduate curriculum in UK
, 124

ladder framework
, 126–127

material and methods
, 127–136

postgraduate taught courses
, 124–126

Potential learning
, 24

“Power” examinations
, 64

Presentations
, 64

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
, 44

Problem-based learning
, 30, 37, 152

Process syllabus (see Syllabus Deliberation method)

Product Design
, 45

Professor as mediator
, 25–26

Programs
, 127–128

Project-based learning (PjBL)
, 61–62

Proposals
, 93

Public investment
, 4

Qualitative method
, 127

Quantitative method
, 127

“Radical” positions, qualitative comments on
, 130–132

Real-world learning
, 146, 149

Reason Design Process
, 53

Recruitment
, 149

Recycle Mania events
, 148

Reductionist approach
, 59

Reliability
, 150

Research

in assessment
, 63–64

reporting
, 146–147

Resilience
, 45–46

“Returning to subjects” process
, 150

Revitalization of cultural commons
, 21

Scaffolding
, 38

Scepticism
, 132

Self-confidence in SD
, 190–191

Self-realisation
, 47–48, 52, 54

Semi-structured focus group interview questions for DSDN183 students
, 211

Semi-structured interview
, 126

Service learning
, 62

Shared learning
, 164

Shared pool of attention
, 22

Siam University
, 116–118

Signature pedagogy, design thinking as
, 200–202

Skills revolution
, 162

Social

awareness
, 22

boundaries
, 188

brain
, 22, 26

dimension of SD
, 188

empowerment
, 170

exclusion
, 163

facility
, 22

intelligence
, 22, 26

issue
, 88

science
, 74, 76, 78

social-justice oriented actions
, 204, 206

sustainability
, 190

SOLO taxonomy
, 61

Statistical analysis
, 182

Statistical Package for Social Sciences
, 182

Students, Staff, and Surrounding Communities (3S)
, 117

Students

characteristics and consequences
, 136

student-based studies
, 76–77

Study circles
, 160, 163–164

in Sweden
, 166–169

in Zimbabwe
, 164–166

“Summer School” approach
, 35

Summit on Climate Change and Indigenous People
, 17

Sustainability
, 4–5, 11, 33, 74, 144, 149, 151, 208

curriculum
, 79, 145–150, 152, 155

education
, 5

in higher education
, 76–77

interdisciplinary learning for
, 199–200

principles, definitions, and practices
, 135–136

strong and weak
, 133–134

teaching
, 60–61

at UBC
, 214–216

Sustainability development (SD)
, 144

Sustainability learning (see also Learning)
, 58, 60

assessment design on student approaches to learning
, 63

current practice in assessment for sustainability
, 64–65

frameworks for sustainability teaching
, 61

instructional design on student achievement
, 60

learning models
, 60–61

publications on sustainability instructional design, assessment, and research outcomes
, 66

through reflective paper submissions toward changed mindset
, 155

research in assessment
, 63–66

teaching approaches in engineering sustainability classes
, 61–62

visible by starting with text
, 155

visible through story and participatory action
, 155

Sustainability Scholars program
, 221

Sustainability Summit Conference
, 148

Sustainable Building Science Program (SBSP)
, 217

Sustainable development (SD)
, 4, 9, 35, 37, 58, 108, 178, 182, 188–189

CLL to
, 224

data analysis
, 182

data collection
, 180–181

degree of confidence in SD issues
, 187–188, 190–191

degree of interest in sustainability issues
, 184–185, 189–190

descriptive statistics for question
, 183

differences in interest between male and female students
, 185–187

in engineering
, 179

leadership in
, 214

literature review
, 5–6

pictures
, 182, 184

policy
, 214–215

research methods
, 180

role/responsibilities of engineer vs. teacher
, 187, 190

sample
, 180

teachers responsibilities in
, 180

whole institution approach for
, 109–112

words
, 182

Sustainable development education (SDE)
, 181

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
, 42–43, 50, 52, 108, 160–169, 198

ALE and SDG 4 targets
, 169–172

awareness
, 48

and design
, 43–45

design
, 43–45, 48–50

example
, 51–52

framework
, 208

framing research
, 45–46

future scenario building
, 46–48

insights
, 53–54

learning society
, 162–163

lifelong learning
, 161–162

methods
, 48

results
, 48–52

SDG Fund
, 111

SDG Wheel
, 118

SDG3
, 205

SDG4
, 8, 161–162, 169–172, 178

SDG5
, 205

SDG11
, 205

study circles
, 163–164

study circles in Sweden
, 166–169

study circles in Zimbabwe
, 164–166

UN 2030 plan
, 160–161

values
, 49–50

Sustainable Development Policy #5
, 215

Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN)
, 110

Sustainable Education
, 84

Sustainable engineering practice
, 58, 69

Sustainable Environmental Economic Development Studies Program (SEEDS Program)
, 220

Sweden

study circles in
, 166–169

sustainable development in
, 178

Syllabus Deliberation method
, 12

Syllabus deliberations (SD)
, 86, 91

questions and ponderings
, 93–95

reflections and findings related to
, 91–93

Symbiosis
, 45–46

Syngas
, 222

Systems theory
, 43, 50

Systems-level thinking
, 84

Talloires Declaration
, 146

Taxonomic frameworks
, 60

Teachers
, 178

role/responsibilities in SD
, 187, 190

Teaching

approaches in engineering sustainability classes
, 61–62

strategies
, 5

sustainability
, 6

of sustainability
, 74, 76

Teaching Research and Development Network (TRDN)
, 30–31

Teaching sustainability mini-pilot model (TSMP model)
, 144, 146

conceptual framework
, 147–148

data collection
, 149–150

educating sustainability
, 146–147

essence of experience
, 154

FLC
, 145–146

higher education
, 144–145

limitations, implications, and outcomes
, 155–156

methodology
, 148–150

objective
, 149

participants, recruitment, and subjects taught
, 149

presentation of data
, 150–154

Texas Core Curriculum
, 145

Texas Education Code
, 145

Textile Design
, 45

Thailand
, 116–117

Three-pillar model
, 11, 75, 77

Time-tested indigenous methods
, 53

Traditional engineering assessment methods
, 58

Transferable skills
, 37

Transformative learning
, 36

Transformative nature of education for sustainable development
, 36–37

“Transforming our World” (see UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development)

U.S. National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE)
, 178

UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
, 160–161, 171

UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL)
, 160

United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
, 84, 160

University faculty
, 26

University Leaders for Sustainable Future (ULSF)
, 146

University of Bologna
, 113–114

University of British Columbia (UBC)
, 11, 214

CLL
, 216–217

Sustainability Academic Strategy
, 215

sustainability at
, 214–216

20-year Sustainability Strategy
, 215

University of Costa Rica (UCR)
, 118–119

University of Ghana
, 114–115

University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST)
, 30

University of Regina (UofR)
, 115–116

Unsustainable lifestyle
, 144

Value-based design
, 46, 54

Venn diagram
, 189

VicTeach
, 198

Victoria University of Wellington (VUW)
, 10, 197–198

Video dialogues
, 198

as mechanism for critical openness
, 206–208

Video resource
, 206

Vygotsky’s theory
, 24

WELL Building Assessment Project
, 220

Whakawhitinga kōrero: Dialogues on Sustainability
, 202–203, 207

Whanaungatanga
, 202

Whole Institution Approach (WIA)
, 12, 108

case studies
, 112–119

for sustainable development
, 109–112

Whole School Approach
, 110

Wicked problems
, 32

World Education Forum (WEF)
, 160

Zimbabwe, study circles in
, 164–166

Zone of Proximal Development
, 24

Prelims
Part I: Pedagogical Approaches
Chapter 1: Introduction to Teaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development
Chapter 2: Integrating Sustainability into the University: Academies for Learning
Chapter 3: An Interdisciplinary Problem-Based Approach to Education for Sustainable Development
Chapter 4: Using the Sdgs to Promote Change and Nurture Connectivity in an Undergraduate Design Module
Chapter 5: Leading Assessment Practices to Foster Sustainability Learning in Engineering Classrooms
Chapter 6: Can the Anthropocene Provide a Tool For Meaningful Teaching of Sustainability in Higher Education?
Chapter 7: Deliberative Dialogue and Syllabus Deliberation as Innovative, Cross-Disciplinary, and Sustainable Teaching Methods
Chapter 8: Integrating Sustainable Development into the Whole Institution: can The SDGs Bridge the GAP?
Chapter 9: Integrating Sustainable Development into the Postgraduate Curriculum in the UK: a Mixed Method Study
Part II: Innovative Case Studies
Chapter 10: The Teaching Sustainability Mini-Pilot: a Faculty Learning Community Building Curriculum for Students’ Sustainability Thinking
Chapter 11: Study Circle as an Innovative Tool for Promoting Lifelong Learning and Community Empowerment
Chapter 12: Student Perceptions of Engineers’ Versus Teachers’ Roles and Responsibilities in Contributing to Sustainable Development
Chapter 13: Whakawhitinga Kōrero: Dialogues on Sustainability
Chapter 14: Campus as a Living Lab: Creating a Culture of Research and Learning in Sustainable Development
About the Contributors
Name Index
Subject Index