The Declaration, Volume 7, No. 1: Summer 2004 [Curriculum] By Daniel Egan, Vanessa Gray, Whitley Kaufman, and Chad Montrie Paper presented at the Education for Sustainable Development Conference, Committee on Industrial Theory and Assessment, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, October 23-24, 2003 This paper is a work of self-reflection. The four authors, all faculty in the humanities…… Continue Reading
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Earth Charter: Pathway to a Sustainable Future? A Course Review from Michigan State University
The Declaration, Volume 6, Number 2: November 2003 [Curriculum] By Terry Link Teaching sustainability is an ominous endeavor. What is it? What pedagogy might be used? How do we invite the entire community to learn together? These questions challenge us as we try to develop courses that might bring the complexity and messiness of sustainability…… Continue Reading
Sustainable Development Education at Monterrey Tec
The Declaration, Volume 6, Number 1: December 2002 [Curriculum] By Francisco J. Lozano-García, Don Huisingh, and Mónica Delgado-Fabián The Monterrey Institute of Technology (Tec) University System is a private institution of higher education that was founded in September 1943. Since then it has expanded and consolidated its 32-campus network throughout Mexico and many other countries…… Continue Reading
A Focus on Transdisciplinarity at the University of Waterloo
The Declaration, Volume 5, Number 2: May 2002 [Curriculum] “Environment and Resource Studies is the department interested in both many disciplines and moving beyond disciplines, because that’s the way the real world works.”1 What makes an outstanding Environmental Studies program? At the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario, it is a commitment to teaching integrated…… Continue Reading
Implementing Education for Sustainable Development at the University of Malaya
The Declaration, Volume 5, Number 1: December 2001 [Curriculum] Excerpted and edited from a Masters thesis entitled “Curriculum Development for Sustainability: The Prospects of Implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) for Undergraduate Education in a Public University in Malaysia.” By Zeeda Fatimah Mohamad Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a recent innovation in educational reform…… Continue Reading
Environmental Decision Making: The Basis for Environmental Literacy
The Declaration, Volume 4, Number 2 : May 2001 [Curriculum] By Indira Nair and Sharon Jones “The crisis of sustainability and the problems of education are in large measure a crisis of knowledge. But is the problem as is commonly believed, that we do not know enough? Or, that we know too much? Or, that…… Continue Reading
Struggling Toward Sustainability at Northland College
The Declaration, Volume 4, Number 1 : October 2000 [Curriculum] By Juliet Harding and Tom Wojciechowski Long before many of its current students were even born, Northland College began its first environmental studies program. By the time those students were five years old, Northland’s Sigurd Olson Environmental Institute was founded and built, a Native American…… Continue Reading
Sustainability at the University of Technology, Sydney
The Declaration, Volume 3, Number 3 : February 2000 [Curriculum] By Kim Walker The University of Technology (UTS), in Sydney, Australia, has made sustainability a priority. Achieving the aim of an integrated sustainable university requires a process of critically evaluating the policies and practices of the university, creating a vision for a more sustainable institution…… Continue Reading
Curriculum: Students Conduct Environmental Audits for Credit and Public Service
The Declaration, Volume 3, Number 2 : September 1999 [Curriculum] By S. Bruce Kohrn, Walter Simpson, Julie Barrett-O’Neill and Joseph A. Gardella, Jr. In 1995, undergraduate students at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) initiated an audit of campus practices and policies, an exemplary effort that developed into an internship-style audit course.…… Continue Reading
Sustainability in Architecture Courses at the Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science
The Declaration, Volume 3, Number 1 : March 1999 [Curriculum] by Rob Fleming Young students in K-12 classes are increasingly taught that we are all interconnected through the proverbial web of life, that protecting earth’s resources is an important part of being a global citizen. So, while the world is becoming environmentally literate, architecture remains…… Continue Reading