Search for dissertations about: "education for sustainability"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 93 swedish dissertations containing the words education for sustainability.
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1. Education for Sustainability Leadership : Supporting and empowering agents for sustainability transformations
Abstract : The global challenges of our time are unprecedented and urgent action for transformation is needed of our systems, policies, institutions and ways of thinking. Education of sustainability leaders is one of the key leverage points to achieve this and many claim that learning on an individual, organisational and societal scale is required for society’s successful transitioning towards sustainability. READ MORE
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2. Beyond Education and Society : On the Political Life of Education for Sustainable Development
Abstract : The objective of this dissertation is to develop a theoretical and analytical framework for understanding the political in education from a social and global perspective. With this objective in mind, it employs an empirical engagement and theoretical reflection on how this political can be seen to emerge in policy making on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). READ MORE
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3. Greening education : Prospects and conditions in Tanzania
Abstract : Environmental education in Tanzania after independence takes the Education for Self-Reliance policy as its starting point. This policy dominated the curriculum from 1967 to the 1980s. READ MORE
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4. Being at home in business education : ... with sustainability
Abstract : This inquiry is about business education. At first, the intention was that it would be about sustainability in business education, but the engagement with questions of sustainability left the idea of business with deep wounds that opened up for new questions of how to take care of them. READ MORE
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5. Wicked Problems in Engineering Education : Preparing Future Engineers to Work for Sustainability
Abstract : Most engineering education today does not adequately prepare students to contribute to sustainability. For example, engineering students often do not learn how to address complex and ill-structured sustainability problems that involve different stakeholders, value conflicts,and uncertainty; such problems are also called wicked problems. READ MORE