Sustainable Development Teaching Ethical and Political Challenges

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Synopsis

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching challenges related to the ethical and political dimension of environmental and sustainability education.
Bringing together recent scholarship on the topic, this book translates state-of-the-art academic research into teaching models, methods and tools. Starting with an outline of the challenge of sustainability, it offers insights and models for understanding the interesting yet ambiguous concept of ‘sustainable development’ and the complex process of transforming society in a more sustainable direction (Part I). It then goes on to provide a guide to preparing courses and lessons as well as tools for reflection about teaching practices and the multiplicity of approaches to addressing ethical and political challenges in sustainable development teaching (Part II). Finally, the book offers useful conceptual frameworks, models and typologies about the concrete design and implementation of sustainable development teaching (Part III).
This book will be essential reading for students of education, as well as teachers in compulsory and higher education and sustainability education researchers.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Studies in Sustainability
Author:
Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman, Johan Öhman
ISBN:
9781351124324
Related ISBNs:
9780815357537, 9780367729585, 9781351124348
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
246
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2023-09-27
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2019
Copyright by:
selection and editorial matter, Katrien Van Poeck, Leif Östman and Johan Öhman 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Earth Sciences, Education, Nonfiction, Outdoors and Nature, Politics and Government, Science