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Higher Education for Sustainability

Seeking Intellectual Independence in Aotearoa New Zealand

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Authors:
  1. Kerry Shephard

    1. Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

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  • Seeks and finds common ground between university teachers who do advocate for sustainability and those who do not
  • Overcomes the need for higher education to ‘say the right things’ about its sustainability education and radically change course
  • Supports higher education in its transition from a net contributor to unsustainability, to a potential contributor to solving the problem

Part of the book series: Education for Sustainability (EDFSU)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  4. Changing Our Practices

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-123
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    2. Community Engagement and Higher Education’s Third Mission

      • Kerry Shephard
      Pages 125-135

    3. Empowering Students in Higher Education

      • Kerry Shephard
      Pages 137-141

    4. On Assessment and Evaluation, and Researching the Practices of Higher Education

      • Kerry Shephard
      Pages 143-155

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 157-163
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About this book

This book explores how higher education and sustainability interact in New Zealand, and argues that higher education at present may be contributing as much to unsustainability as it does to sustainability. It considers how education, and higher education in particular, works alongside a wide range of other life experiences to impact individuals’ attitudes and actions. In turn, it envisions a form of higher education that supports graduates to decide what their contribution to a sustainable future will be. This book addresses those aspects of higher education that are best suited to fostering the development of students’ abilities and dispositions to think deeply, critically and independently about the world, and how higher education will know if it is on the right track if it chooses this path.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Higher Education Development Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

    Kerry Shephard

About the author

Kerry Shephard is Professor of Higher Education Development at the University of Otago’s Higher Education Development Centre. Kerry researches and teaches policy and practice in higher education with particular interests in sustainability, global citizenship and integrity. Kerry’s work has a particular focus on learning and teaching involving values, attitudes, dispositions and behaviours and argues that for higher education to make a serious contribution to sustainability we need to be interested not only in the knowledge and skills that we teach but also in what people choose to do with the knowledge and skill that they learn. Kerry’s work at Otago as educational researcher and academic developer is substantially informed by a previous academic career teaching and researching biology.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Higher Education for Sustainability

  • Book Subtitle: Seeking Intellectual Independence in Aotearoa New Zealand

  • Authors: Kerry Shephard

  • Series Title: Education for Sustainability

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1940-6

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1939-0Published: 04 February 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1942-0Published: 04 February 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1940-6Published: 02 January 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2367-1769

  • Series E-ISSN: 2367-1777

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 163

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environmental and Sustainability Education, Higher Education, International and Comparative Education

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