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  • Education and Learning for Sustainable Futures

    50 Years of Learning for Environment and Change

    by Thomas Macintyre, Daniella Tilbury, Arjen Wals ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education, Society and the Anthropocene
    Responding to growing interest in the sustainable development goals (SDGs) and global concern over climate change, this volume provides an analysis of how our understanding of the relationship between environment and education has evolved during the past 50 years.Spanning from the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human Environment through to the present day, chapters examine whether our ... Read more

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  • Education for Sustainable Development in the ‘Capitalocene’

    Edited by Helena Pedersen, Sally Windsor, Beniamin Knutsson, Dawn Sanders, Arjen Wals, Olof Franck ...
    Series series Educational Philosophy and Theory
    The book seeks to explore ways in which education research, policy and practice ought to be re-thought and re-enacted under present bio-political predicaments. It brings together scholars working in the intersections of education for sustainable development, philosophy of education and curriculum theory who contribute original and radical analyses of education in an increasingly unpredictable and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Whole School Approaches to Sustainability

    Education Renewal in Times of Distress

    Edited by Arjen E.J. Wals, Birgitte Bjønness, Astrid Sinnes, Ingrid Eikeland ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    In response to urgent global sustainability challenges, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Global Citizenship Education have been prioritized in the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 under SDG 4.7. There is a growing awareness that treating concepts such as global citizenship, sustainable development, climate urgency, and health and well-being as separate subjects or topics to be added to a ... Read more

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  • Higher Education and the Challenge of Sustainability

    Problematics, Promise, and Practice

    Edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran, Arjen E.J. Wals ...
    Sustainability challenges universities around the world to rethink their missions and to re-structure their courses, research programs, and life on campus. Graduates are increasingly exposed to notions of sustainability, which are emotionally, politically, ethically, and scientifically charged. They must be able to deal with conflicting norms and values, uncertain outcomes and futures, and a ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • International Handbook of Research on Environmental Education

    Edited by Robert B. Stevenson, Michael Brody, Justin Dillon, Arjen E.J. Wals ...
    The environment and contested notions of sustainability are increasingly topics of public interest, political debate, and legislation across the world. Environmental education journals now publish research from a wide variety of methodological traditions that show linkages between the environment, health, development, and education. The growth in scholarship makes this an opportune time to review ... Read more

    $199.99 USD

  • Transforming Education for Sustainable Futures

    Learning from the Global South

    by Amal Ali, Poonam Batra, Amir Bazaz, Ash Brockwell, Beena Choksi, Joan DeJaeghere, Keri Facer, Freya Gasgoyne, Eric Herring, Dan Imaniriho, Latif Ismael, Sanele kaNtshingana, Vainola Makan, Simon McGrath, Rafael Mitchell, Sujata Noronha, Sue Parnell, Michael Tusiime, Colleen Vogel, Arjen Wals ...
    Series series Bristol Studies in Comparative and International Education
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.This book examines how education can drive change for marginalized communities across the Global South. Drawing on evidence from 67 projects in India, Rwanda, Somaliland/Somalia and South Africa, the book shows how education can expand youth livelihoods, strengthen sustainable cities and advance climate action.Yet for education to fulfil ... Read more

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    Perspectives on Community Development

    Edited by Daniel Muia, Rhonda Phillips ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses how aspects of connectedness, resilience and empowerment are intertwined in community development processes. It explicitly brings together these elements in the context of community development and well-being, helping foster an understanding of how each influences the other. With chapters contributed by scholars from around the globe, this volume provides insights into how ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • The Posthuman

    by Rosi Braidotti ...
    The Posthuman offers both an introduction and major contribution to contemporary debates on the posthuman. Digital 'second life', genetically modified food, advanced prosthetics, robotics and reproductive technologies are familiar facets of our globally linked and technologically mediated societies. This has blurred the traditional distinction between the human and its others, exposing the non ... Read more

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  • Co-Production and Co-Creation

    Engaging Citizens in Public Services

    Edited by Taco Brandsen, Bram Verschuere, Trui Steen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management
    Co-production and co-creation occur when citizens participate actively in delivering and designing the services they receive. It has come increasingly onto the agenda of policymakers, as interest in citizen participation has more generally soared. Expectations are high and it is regarded as a possible solution to the public sector’s decreased legitimacy and dwindling resources, by accessing more ... Read more

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  • Participation in Community Work

    International Perspectives

    Edited by Anne Karin Larsen, Vishanthie Sewpaul, Grete Oline Hole ...
    Participation is a key community work method and this text, written by an international selection of authors, covers innovative approaches in community based education and practice. Including real-life case studies of participatory practice, it offers new definitions of community work, organisation and development and will challenge and inspire all those involved in community work practice and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Consequences of Modernity

    by Anthony Giddens ...
    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

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  • Advancing Energy Policy

    Lessons on the integration of Social Sciences and Humanities

    Edited by Chris Foulds, Rosie Robison ...
    This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and works on the premise that crossing disciplines is essential. All of its contributions are highly interdisciplinary, with each chapter grounded in at least three different Social ... Read more

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