Education for Sustainable Development: What was achieved in the DESD?
Author:   Roger Firth ,  Maggie Smith (Open University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367220044


Pages:   152
Publication Date:   17 July 2019
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Education for Sustainable Development: What was achieved in the DESD?


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Author:   Roger Firth ,  Maggie Smith (Open University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.840kg
ISBN:  

9780367220044


ISBN 10:   0367220040
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   17 July 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Introduction – As the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development comes to an end: what has it achieved and what are the ways forward? 1. Developing the sustainable school: thinking the issues through 2. Eco-schooling and sustainability citizenship: exploring issues raised by corporate sponsorship 3. Exploring and developing student understandings of sustainable development 4. Sustainable development, environmental education, and the significance of being in place 5. Uncharted waters: voyages for Education for Sustainable Development in the higher education curriculum 6. A Practitioner’s Perspective – Missing the wood for the trees: systemic defects and the future of education for sustainable development

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Roger Firth is an Associate Professor of Geography Education in the Department of Education, and a Fellow of St Anne’s College, at the University of Oxford, UK. He has written widely on geography in education, knowledge and its impacts on curriculum, and pedagogy and environmental education. His recent research interest is inferentialist perspectives on conceptual development in geography classrooms. Maggie Smith is a lecturer on the PGCE course at Reading University, UK. Her research interests and publications focus on the practice of environmental and sustainable development education in schools. She is a past chair of the National Association of Environmental Education, and of the Geographical Association’s special interest group on environmental education. She has worked widely with organisations linked to environmental education.

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