Embracing the Paradox in Educational Change for Sustainable Development: A Case of Accounting

Autor/in	Qian, Wei
Titel	Embracing the Paradox in Educational Change for Sustainable Development: A Case of Accounting
Quelle	In: Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 7 (2013) 1, S.75-93 (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0973-4082
DOI	10.1177/0973408213495609
Schlagwörter	Sustainable Development; Educational Change; Foreign Countries; Accounting; Capacity Building; Change Strategies; Case Studies; College Programs; Barriers; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change; Curriculum Development; Educational Research; Environmental Education; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Professional Development; Social Responsibility; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Bildungsreform; Ausland; Abrechnung; Buchführung; Buchhaltung; Lösungsstrategie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Studienprogramm; Ressourcenallokation; Organisationswandel; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Soziale Verantwortung; Australien
Abstract	Higher education institutions have been encouraged to prepare their graduates to be socially and environmentally responsible professionals. However, previous studies have found a slow uptake of education for sustainable development (ESD) in university curricula, particularly in non-environmental disciplines. This paper investigates the process of developing educational change for sustainability in an Australian university and the impact of such development on an area that has long been resistant to the sustainability initiative--accounting. The paper analyzes an approach that embraces a top-down research-led change and a bottom-up educational change for sustainability, linking university strategy, research concentration and institutional culture development with ESD in the case of accounting. This study examines issues of interest to higher education institutions engaged in accelerating the diffusion of ESD in non-environmental disciplines. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10