Leading for sustainability: is surface understanding enough?
Leading for sustainability: is surface understanding enough?
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引领可持续发展:表面理解就足够了吗?
DOI:
10.1108/09578230810895528
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发表时间:
2008
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通讯作者:
H. Wildy
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作者:
Coral Pepper;H. Wildy
Purpose – This paper aims to report an investigation of how education for sustainability is conceptualised, incorporated across the curriculum and led in three Western Australian Government secondary schools. It also reports on processes to enable education for sustainability to become embedded into these schools.Design/methodology/approach – Data for the research were gathered through semi‐structured interviews with teachers who were reputedly leading education for sustainability.Findings – With the exception of one participant, the concept of education for sustainability is not widely embraced in the schools of this study. Instead participants focus only on the environmental aspect of sustainability. Again, with the exception of one participant, education for sustainability remains fragmented and vulnerable to changing school conditions. Leadership of education for sustainability occurs whimsically and with little vision for the future across this study with little evidence of alliance building or colla...