Education for Sustainable Development: Experiences from Action Research with Science Teachers
In this paper, we look at the University of Crete experience to integrate the concept of sustainable development across all its operations. Through a review of current sustainability practices of universities worldwide, this paper has identified a number of principles for developing a sustainable un...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sciendo
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/v10230-012-0001-2 |
| Summary: | In this paper, we look at the University of Crete experience to integrate the concept of sustainable development across all its operations. Through a review of current sustainability practices of universities worldwide, this paper has identified a number of principles for developing a sustainable university. These principles are then used as a framework for analysing the sustainable initiatives being implemented at the University of Crete in the context of the Reorient University Curricula to Address Sustainability (RUCAS) project - an EU-Tempus initiative. This effort has been backed-up by two research studies, which indicate the urgent need for institutionalising sustainability across all university functions. |
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| ISSN: | 2255-7547 |