The Teaching Sustainability Mini-Pilot: a Faculty Learning Community Building Curriculum for Students’ Sustainability Thinking

Abstract Humans have immense impact on our environment and open and ongoing conversations are needed to generate informed actions toward sustainability. A sustainable future must grow from a changed mindset, one of critical thinking, problem-solving, and continuous learning and active practice. In h...

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Published inTeaching and Learning Strategies for Sustainable Development Vol. 19; pp. 143 - 158
Main Authors Wakefield, Jenny S., Grice, Christopher E.
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Emerald Publishing Limited 27.05.2020
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Education
Inter/multicultural Education
Multicultural Education/Social Justice
phenomenology
teaching sustainability mini-pilot
real-world learning
Sustainability
focus group
sustainability-across-the-curriculum
sustainability curriculum
community college
faculty learning community
interdisciplinary
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Summary:Abstract Humans have immense impact on our environment and open and ongoing conversations are needed to generate informed actions toward sustainability. A sustainable future must grow from a changed mindset, one of critical thinking, problem-solving, and continuous learning and active practice. In higher education we are uniquely placed to share with students a sustainability-infused curriculum toward such a changed mindset. At Brookhaven College faculty self-selected to participate in a Teaching Sustainability Mini-Pilot during Fall semester 2018. The innovation was initiated to encourage students to become mindful of sustainability, inspired to get involved in sustainability efforts, and to become immersed in satisfactory real-world learning.
ISBN:9781789736403
1789736404
ISSN:2055-3641
DOI:10.1108/S2055-364120200000019013