Policy, politics and polity in higher education for sustainable development
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Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development. Hrsg. / Matthias Barth; Gerd Michelsen; Marco Rieckmann; Ian Thomas. London and New York: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2016. S. 40 - 55 3 (Routledge international handbooks).
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T1 - Policy, politics and polity in higher education for sustainable development
AU - Michelsen, Gerd
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2016 selection and editorial matter, Matthias Barth, Gerd Michelsen, Marco Rieckmann and Ian Thomas; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Higher education for sustainable development has moved up the international political agenda, at the latest since the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002. This agenda involves three elements: content and goals (policy), the activities of different actors (politics) engaged in higher education for sustainable development, as well as its institutional and organizational infrastructure (polity). Since the Johannesburg summit meeting the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has taken up the challenge of promoting the integration of education for sustainable development in the different educational sectors, from elementary schooling to higher education and informal education, in every region in the world. A key political activity was the United Nation’sWorld Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), which will be continued in 2015 as a Global Action Programme (GAP) in order to maintain support for the activities, together with their actors, that started during the Decade (Michelsen 2011, Leal Filho 2011, Barth 2015). Higher education for sustainable development played an important role in the World Decade and it should be continued in the Global Action Plan.
AB - Higher education for sustainable development has moved up the international political agenda, at the latest since the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002. This agenda involves three elements: content and goals (policy), the activities of different actors (politics) engaged in higher education for sustainable development, as well as its institutional and organizational infrastructure (polity). Since the Johannesburg summit meeting the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has taken up the challenge of promoting the integration of education for sustainable development in the different educational sectors, from elementary schooling to higher education and informal education, in every region in the world. A key political activity was the United Nation’sWorld Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014), which will be continued in 2015 as a Global Action Programme (GAP) in order to maintain support for the activities, together with their actors, that started during the Decade (Michelsen 2011, Leal Filho 2011, Barth 2015). Higher education for sustainable development played an important role in the World Decade and it should be continued in the Global Action Plan.
KW - Sustainability education
KW - Empirical education research
KW - Sustainability Science
KW - Transdisciplinary studies
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85145149183&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781315852249
DO - 10.4324/9781315852249
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-0-415-72730-3
T3 - Routledge international handbooks
SP - 40
EP - 55
BT - Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development
A2 - Barth, Matthias
A2 - Michelsen, Gerd
A2 - Rieckmann, Marco
A2 - Thomas, Ian
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London and New York
ER -