Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: A Critical Review

William Scott, Stephen Gough

Psychology Press, 2004 - Business & Economics - 274 pages

This book presents seminal readings from existing literature alongside specially commissioned, critical vignettes from leading thinkers with interests in sustainable development and learning. The book sets out to inform readers about the many perspectives that exist, and to challenge assumptions they may have about both sustainable development and learning.

Through the readings and vignettes, the book raises wide-ranging issues of how we choose to act. Following the format of its companion volume, Sustainable Development and Learning: framing the issues, the book builds on existing work across a number of fields as well as on original international research.

Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: a critical review is a major resource for anyone studying for masters degrees focusing on environment and sustainable development. It is also a valuable tool for professionals in both public and private sector who are dealing with these issues daily.

Bill and Steve's book for Routledge, Sustainable Development and Learning: framing the issues is one of the academic sources cited by the United Nations in its draft international implementation scheme for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (which was launched by Kofi Annan last month).

Contents

• Introduction: 1
• Framing the issues complexityuncertainty risk and necessity: 4
• towards a new modernity: 10
• Vignette 11 Complicating theory with life: 17
• perspectives from the south: 19
• The policy context: 22
• Reading 22 Lifelong learning for all: 30
• Vignette 21 Education for sustainability: 33
• Vignette 22 Lifelong learning: 38
• Language and meaning: 41
• the story if a dangerous liaison: 44
• nature as a selfregulating machine: 50
• Vignette 32 The contact zone Whose nature? Whose sustainability?: 52
• Lifelong learning making the linkages: 57
• theory method and practice: 63
• Vignette 41 The learning of ecology or the ecology of learning: 68
• making the linkages: 71
• Humans and nature tensions and interdependence: 74
• natures debt to society: 78
• key to spiritual richness or lever of oppression?: 86
• tensions and interdependence: 89
• Theory and practice ideology and philosophy: 93
• practices institutions and literacies: 100
• direction only matters if you know where you want to go: 108
• Vignette 62 Sustainability and the implicit curriculum: 111
• Management of learning issues in curriculum design: 113
• Reading 72 Complexity in environmental education: 120
• Vignette 71 Sustaining democracy and uncertainty in the learning society: 127
• Vignette 72 Managing learning in the real world: 130
• Curriculum and pedagogy: 133
• an international perspective: 137
• consensus as an ethical issue: 145
• Vignette 82 Lifespan learning for sustainable education: 147
• a regulative idea and trigger for innovation: 149
• Measuring learning aspects of assessment: 152
• Paradigm of critical reflective inquiry: 156
• Vignette 91 Lifes rich tapestry: 161
• Vignette 92 Assessing action competence?: 164
• Measuring effectiveness monitoring and evaluation: 167
• an evaluation of the contributions of education programmes to conservation within the WWF Network: 171
• Vignette 101 Learning about learning: 176
• the meaning of standardisation and the language of instrumentalism: 179
• Building capacity developing agency: 182
• the troubled attempt to understand and shape society: 193
• Vignette 111 Challenging formulaic approaches to environmental thinking: 200
• women dont play xylophones: 202
• Vignette 113 Developing agencybuilding capacity: 205
• Economic behaviour value and values: 208
• Reading 122 Founders in environmental education: 215
• the tensions between cultural change and educational practice: 219
• value and values: 222
• Globalization and fragmentation science and self: 225
• Reading 132 Educating beyond violent futures: 232
• Vignette 131 Living in a material world: 236
• Vignette 132 Collective knowledge and the creative imagination in a globalised world: 240
• What happens next?: 243
• Reading 142 Sustaining the poors development: 249
• Last word: 251
• References: 255
• Index: 268

Bibliographic information

• Title: Key Issues in Sustainable Development and Learning: A Critical Review
• Editors: William Scott, Stephen Gough
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 2004
• ISBN: 0415276497, 9780415276498
• Length: 274 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Development / Sustainable Development; Education / Adult & Continuing Education; Education / General; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection; Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy