Higher Education for a Sustainable World

Autor/in	Blewitt, John
Titel	Higher Education for a Sustainable World
Quelle	In: Education & Training, 52 (2010) 6-7, S.477-488 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0040-0912
DOI	10.1108/00400911011068432
Schlagwörter	Economic Development; Higher Education; Socialization; Educational Technology; Teaching Methods; Sustainable Development; Role of Education; Conservation (Environment); Lifelong Learning; Social Development; Holistic Approach; Social Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Unterrichtsmedien; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Bildungsauftrag; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Life-long learning; Lebenslanges Lernen; Soziale Entwicklung; Holistischer Ansatz; Soziales Umfeld
Abstract	Purpose: The paper aims to explore the nature and purpose of higher education (HE) in the twenty-first century, focussing on how it can help fashion a green knowledge-based economy by developing approaches to learning and teaching that are social, networked and ecologically sensitive. Design/methodology/approach: The paper presents a discursive analysis of the skills and knowledge requirements of an emerging green knowledge-based economy using a range of policy focussed and academic research literature. Findings: The business opportunities that are emerging as a more sustainable world is developed requires the knowledge and skills that can capture and move then forward but in a complex and uncertain worlds learning needs to non-linear, creative and emergent. Practical implications: Sustainable learning and the attributes graduates will need to exhibit are prefigured in the activities and learning characterising the work and play facilitated by new media technologies. Social implications: Greater emphasis is required in higher learning understood as the capability to learn, adapt and direct sustainable change requires interprofessional co-operation that must utilise the potential of new media technologies to enhance social learning and collective intelligence. Originality/value: The practical relationship between low-carbon economic development, social sustainability and HE learning is based on both normative criteria and actual and emerging projections in economic, technological and skills needs. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10