Sustainable Development and Learning: framing the issues

In this important new book the authors explore the role of learning in sustainable development. The book sets out the key issues, and raises concepts for discussion, reflection and ongoing consideration by all stakeholders in this crucial field.
This study examines the difficult and wide-ranging issues relating to how we understand our environment, our place in it, and how we choose to act. The comprehensive text provides an overview of these developing key issues, illustrating how - through schooling, higher education, professional training and development and awareness-raising - people can bring about change, as well as engaging in debate and critique of issues. The book builds on existing work across a number of fields, as well as on original international research, in order to model the complexity of the problems, the institutional contexts in which they arise, and the interrelationships between these. Areas explored include the policy context, the links between sustainable development and learning, the economic and moral interdependence of humans and nature, the management, assessment and evaluation of learning, and globalization. The book suggests ways in which those responsible for learning can target their efforts appropriately, matching straightforward solutions to simple problems, and designing complex interventions only where these are needed. This text provides a resource for anyone studying Masters degrees and