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This book will enable teachers and managers in the post-compulsory sector to consider a range of approaches to embed Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in their practice in the post-compulsory sector. There will be the opportunity to consider key debates, useful links and suggested reading to encourage further investigation and development of practice. Fundamentally, this book aims to empower teachers to critically analyse ESD through their own subject specialisms, engage in the debate and learn with their students. Democratic and participative approaches introduced will help readers to question traditional transmissive styles of teaching and learning and move on to the radical and transformative approaches required to embrace ESD. Therefore this book, whilst including illustrative examples, will encourage the reader to look at their own subject specialisms, practice, interests and those of their students to co-construct a curriculum that embeds ESD.
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EDITED BY DENISE SUMMERS AND ROGER CUTTING Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education EMBEDDING SUSTAINABILITY INTO TEACHING, LEARNING AND THE CURRICULUM Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education Denise Summers • Roger Cutting Editors Education for Sustainable Development in Further Education Embedding Sustainability into Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum Editors Denise Summers Institute of Education Plymouth University Plymouth, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-137-51910-8 Roger Cutting Institute of Education Plymouth University Plymouth, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-137-51911-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-51911-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016943543 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © Bocah Images / Alamy Stock Photo Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London CONTENTS 1 Introducing Education for Sustainable Development Roger Cutting and Denise Summers Part I 2 3 4 Inspiring Change in the Beginning Becoming Sustainability Champions: How Embracing Education for Sustainable Development Can Help Organisations to Change Pauline Osborne Embracing Co-operative Inquiry to Embed Education for Sustainable Development Denise Summers From the Local to the Global and Back Again: Reflections on Journeying to India, Learning about Gandhi’s Philosophy and the I