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Kerry Shephard Samuel Mann Nell Smith Lynley Deaker 《Environmental Education Research》2009,15(5):571-587
How much do teachers in tertiary education know about the sustainability characteristics of their incoming students and, if this knowledge were to be available, how could their educational approaches be influenced by this knowledge? In New Zealand, Otago Polytechnic has committed itself to the goal that every graduate may think and act as a sustainable practitioner, and staff are changing their approach to teaching to achieve this. This research sought to benchmark the environmental worldview attributes of an incoming cohort of Otago Polytechnic students to support academic staff who need to know more about the sustainability interests and characteristics of their students, so that they may provide appropriate educational programmes. The research was also designed as the first stage of longer‐term research to evaluate the impact of these institutional changes on how students transform during the period of their tertiary education experience. The data and analysis presented here suggest that even before students start to study in the institution different groups have substantially different sustainability values‐sets. The authors anticipate that the research instruments and approaches used in the present study will contribute to a substantial national exploration of the sustainability value‐sets of tertiary students. 相似文献
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是否高质量、可持续发展是学科建设的核心问题,学科可持续发展度是表征学科高质量、可持续发展的程度。从教育系统工程的视角,应用层次分析法基本原理建构学科可持续发展度层次分析模型,确定学科可持续发展度指标体系,将成对比较判断矩阵的特征向量作为学科可持续发展度评价指标的权重,确定相关评价指标的影响力排序。结果分析表明,学科方向前沿引领性、学科科研平台、学科团队协同能力、学科社会服务能力、国际交流与合作、学科研究生质量等是影响学科可持续发展度的主要因素。由此可见,注重学科方向的前沿引领,强化学科科研平台和学科团队协同能力建设,增强学科社会服务能力,扩大国际交流合作,提高学科研究生质量等是提高学科可持续发展度的重要措施。 相似文献
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Understanding students’ conceptions of sustainability 总被引：2，自引：2，他引：0
Nicola Walshe 《Environmental Education Research》2008,14(5):537-558
There has recently been significant emphasis placed on environmental education through, for example, the UN’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development. Despite this, there is still considerable debate within the literature as to how the aims of environmental education can be achieved within schools. It seems likely that if there is a lack of agreement as to what education for sustainable development should include, then this will impact students’ understanding of sustainable development. This paper presents findings from research investigating how one class of 12‐ to 13‐year‐old geography students in the UK understands the concept of sustainability. The research used concept‐mapping and semi‐structured interviews to explore the students’ understandings of sustainability, within a case study framework. The substantive findings of this research suggest that there is a wide variety of understanding of sustainability among the students, but that generally they allude to three: the nature, purpose and timescale of sustainability. The paper also considers the impact of method on researching students’ subject understandings, in particular the use of context when considering abstract concepts, such as sustainability, and the different results obtained when conducting interviews versus concept maps. 相似文献
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当前我国专业学位硕士研究生教育正处于探索阶段,并已成为我国研究生教育的重要组成部分。从目前全日制专业学位硕士研究生的培养现状来看,主要存在重视理论知识传授,忽视实践能力培养,教材体系建设缺乏整体规划,学位论文缺乏应用价值等问题。因此,吸引优秀本科毕业生报考专业学位研究生,构建知识结构合理的网络化教材体系,制定科学的专业学位论文评价体系,提高导师的专业化水平等是全日制专业学位硕士研究生教育可持续发展的关键所在。 相似文献
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Xiaoxia Chen 《Educational Philosophy and Theory》2019,51(11):1080-1090
AbstractEcological sustainability can be considered the primary goal of higher education development, as it provides an ontological way to think about what it means for higher education’s long-term development. Given the widespread concern of ecological sustainability, it’s urgent to interpret and deconstruct ecological sustainability in Chinese higher education from indigenous and original perspectives. By drawing on the wisdom from Chinese ancient education philosophy which provides unique enlightenment for ecological sustainability, this paper discusses the harmonization of ecological sustainability and higher education development. In the light of the connotation of contemporary ecological sustainability and the new development of Chinese higher education, the paper also constructs a dynamic model of ecologically sustainable development in Chinese higher education. The aim is to initiate more philosophical dialogues between ancient and modern education, and to provide a new way of conceptualizing Chinese ancient education philosophy in the postmodern times. 相似文献
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This paper describes the results of a research project that investigated the ways that academics understand sustainability
within their own disciplines. It describes a range of ways in which academics view sustainability in the context of their
teaching, and a range of ways they suggest that sustainability could be integrated into their teaching. Its genesis was an
industry/university forum held at Macquarie University (Australia) that identified the need to integrate ideas of sustainable
development within university curricula in all disciplines to prepare students for their professional roles. At a global level,
participants in the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit emphatically endorsed the proposal that sustainable development needs to
be an integral component of all levels of education. Environmental bodies have often focused their attention on development
of materials to support sustainable development within specific environmentally focused disciplines. In contrast, the present
project acknowledges that issues of sustainability need to span the whole range of subjects and extend to the development
of appropriate curriculum. Real change in thinking about sustainability requires creative pedagogy which acknowledges the
different ways that people think about sustainability and provides spaces in which their ideas can be developed. 相似文献
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AbstractThe expert-driven and normative character of sustainability education aims to promote societal transformation and global change. While some authors underline the ethical claims of education, others have criticized that there is a problematic tendency to prescribe certain actions beyond ethical education. The article aims to provide an empirical contribution, including students’ and teachers’ perspectives, and geography textbooks, to the debate. Based on the results of an empirical study with 1001 secondary school students in Austria and Germany, we discuss the “ethical turn” and the moral code in sustainability education. The questionnaires are completed with students’ drawings, qualitative interviews with geography teachers and an analysis of geography textbooks. We argue that most students have a precise idea what sustainability and sustainable behavior means, but they harbor right-wrong binary perceptions of sustainable lifestyles. Many students lack knowledge of the interdependence of consumption and production networks, which impedes the understanding of complex sustainability patterns. Therefore, we recommend pluralistic and interconnected perspectives in sustainability, in the frame of school geography. A more democratic classroom contributes to develop an own moral compass. Additionally, passion and participatory approaches can help students reflect on their affective relationships with consumer goods and consider alternative consumption-production paradigms. 相似文献
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Per Sund 《Environmental Education Research》2015,21(1):24-44
In educational settings, sustainable development (SD) is often handled with the aim of reducing the contested aspects of the concept. Issues like trade, conservation, public health and international relations are often presented in a simplified way so that they are easier for students to grasp. However, in education, this tendency to simplify sustainability issues can be a disadvantage. This study explores how Swedish upper secondary school teachers’ education for sustainable development (ESD) in award-winning ‘ESD-schools’ supports students to become informed and autonomous democratic citizens by appreciating the complexity of the concept of SD. This empirical study is part of a larger research project studying progressive upper secondary schools and is a development of earlier research on teachers’ starting points for long-term purposes beyond the teaching – which we have termed objects of responsibility. In interviews of five teachers from two schools, experienced in ESD issues and working in teacher teams, an interesting commonality in their arguments for teaching sustainability emerged during the analytical process. The implications of the study’s results are important for EE/ESD research into teaching continuity as well as for teachers in practice. 相似文献
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More universities are offering online instruction for students though we know little about effective online learning. Some have found online instruction increases student participation while others have reported that students prefer the traditional face‐to‐face format This study of gifted education graduate students follows the expectation that online students ought to have time to be more thoughtful with online course interactions as compared to the time‐constrained interactions in a face‐to‐face course. Researchers evaluated students’ thinking levels (as per Bloom's Taxonomy) in the online discussion forums required by a graduate course in gifted education. Results indicate there was no relationship between the level of the prompt and the level of the responses. Higher level prompts did not necessarily generate higher level responses. The research‐developed Rubric for Evaluation of Online Discussions can be used both as an instructional guide and as an evaluation rubric to assess the level of online discussions. 相似文献
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Kerry Shephard John Harraway Tim Jowett Brent Lovelock Sheila Skeaff Liz Slooten 《Environmental Education Research》2015,21(6):805-820
This article addresses the important questions that higher education institutions ask concerning their impact on their students’ sustainability-related attributes ‘How do our students’ worldviews change as they experience higher education with us?’ The process of monitoring such a dynamic entity is fraught with statistical complexity but may not be impossible for an institution willing to ask whether or not its educational efforts in ‘education for sustainability’, ‘education for sustainable development’ or ‘environmental education’, and campus sustainability developments, are paralleled by changes in the attitudes of its students. We describe here a longitudinal survey process based on the revised New Ecological Paradigm scale, with two cohorts of students, in three programmes of study, operating over four years, with multiple survey inputs by each student. We implemented the longitudinal analysis using a linear mixed-effects model and describe here the development and testing of this model. We conclude that higher education institutions can benchmark the sustainability attributes of their students and monitor changes, if they are minded to. We invite higher education practitioners worldwide to join us in further developing suitable research instruments, processes and statistical models, and in further analysing the assumptions that link higher education to sustainability and to global citizenship. 相似文献
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重庆三峡库区农村移民教育隐患问题研究 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
三峡工程的关键在移民，移民的关键在于可持续发展，可持续发展的关键在教育。对重庆三峡库区学生、教师、家长进行了抽样调查，结果表明，重庆三峡库区农村移民教育在教育的普及性、环境的适应性以及发展的可持续性方面均存在隐患问题，这些隐患问题严重制约着库区农村移民教育的发展，希望有关部门能重视这些问题并采取相应的措施。 相似文献
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法学研究生教育质量的提高是一项系统工程,其中课程设置是研究生培养工作的首要环节,要合理设置课程,构建科学的研究生课程体系;而学位论文是研究生水平的集中体现,是衡量研究生学识、科研能力和教育培养质量的重要指标,要加强学位论文的指导与管理,努力提高学位论文质量。 相似文献
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改革开放40年来,我国的研究生教育实现了跨越式发展。运用文献计量学方法,对CNKI数据库中1978-2018年核心期刊6988篇文献的关键词、发文机构、发文作者等进行知识图谱可视化分析,结果显示:改革开放40年来,研究生教育研究的热点领域聚焦于研究生课程设置、研究生培养质量监控、专业学位认证、学位授权点建设等方面;王战军、王传毅、袁本涛、张文修、廖湘阳等学者的研究在该领域主题演进中颇具影响力;研究生教育研究的前沿趋势主要集中于研究生培养机制改革、研究生质量保障体系完善、研究生国际化水平提升和研究生创新能力的培养等方面。已有研究主要呈现出以下四个特点:研究主题较为多元化;研究整体呈现出明显的政策导向性;逐步聚焦实现研究生教育内涵式发展;学术共同体逐步形成,研究生教育学成为将来的可能趋势。 相似文献
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The gradual commodification of higher education in the context of an increased focus on graduate employability attributes together with evolving labour markets is creating challenges for universities and students alike. For universities, there has been significant investment in careers services and, through institution-wide initiatives, employability or graduate attribute development established to support graduate transitions into work. Meanwhile, for students, experience of part-time work together with pessimistic post-recession employment discourses are challenging the notion that a good degree guarantees their future career prospects. Simultaneously, decreasing financial support from the state has resulted in worrying levels of debt for new graduates. This pilot study was designed to gain a fresh perspective of how students imagine themselves following graduation. The study used rich pictures (RP) as a methodology to explore student views of life beyond university in the UK and Canada. Content analysis of the RPs provided insights into their thoughts and anxieties about potential challenges for the future. Students presented both positive and negative visions of their future, with success in achieving a respectable performance in their final degree as the key differentiator. The insights gained are discussed in the context of related research into students’ concerns and university initiatives to support students throughout higher education and then into graduate employment. The findings revealed student motivations, hopes and fears which can inform the development of impactful university interventions. 相似文献
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Education for sustainable development aims to help learners engage with the concept of sustainability. This paper considers whether specific values-centred sustainability training techniques can promote personal engagement with sustainability when undertaken by higher education students on an extra-curricular voluntary basis. Conducted over an eight-month period, the study evaluates the impact of the training on 67 second year undergraduate design and engineering students at Plymouth University using pre- and post-training values and worldview scales measured against a control group. Four months after the training, one-to-one interviews were conducted with a subset of the sample. A quantitative analysis of the values and worldview surveys indicates that a degree of values clarification and mind-set shift resulted from the training, with design students appearing more receptive than those studying engineering. This finding was reinforced in the interview data, which illustrates where and how learners engaged with the training and provides examples of learners deep thought, reflection and mind-set changes. 相似文献
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高等职业教育可持续发展的制约性因素及对策 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
蒋玉莲 《南宁职业技术学院学报》2004,9(1):1-5
通过对高等职业教育可持续发展的含义以及高等职业院校近年来生源数量和质量、就业、科研、竞争 等制约高等职业教育可持续发展的主要因素的分析,探讨了高等职业教育可持续发展的对策。 相似文献
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The development of university wide graduate attributes has become an important mechanism for setting generic learning outcomes across higher education institutions. Many universities around the world have developed sets of graduate attributes that they aim to develop through degree programs. Sustainability related attributes have been included in numerous university attribute statements, however, little research exists on methods that can be used to capture data on the application and use of these attributes by graduates. This paper evaluates an assessment tool, based on a scenario/vignette question design, which can be used to capture data on graduate attributes in context and has the potential to be used across a large graduate population which would enable comparative research of learning outcomes to be undertaken. An evaluation of the usefulness of the scenario/vignette design will be presented based on a pilot of the question design with a sample of RMIT University graduates. The results of the pilot show that scenario/vignettes address some of the limitations of existing self-assessment methods and represent a novel way to collect data on graduate sustainability attributes post-degree completion. 相似文献
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联合国教科文组织自2015年以来在全球范围内开展了一项针对高校学生的可持续发展认知测试，其测试结果开创性地勾勒出了高校学生可持续发展认知的全球图景。基于该测试第一批次全球261所高校的调查数据分析发现，高校学生已具备基本的可持续发展知识和素养，可持续教育已普遍纳入高校的培养计划，未来需要更多地在实践活动中培养学生的可持续责任意识，“可持续发展为导向的大学”理念广泛受到认同与传播。中国高校学生在测试中整体表现优于国际平均水平，这是近年来我国高校开展可持续教育的成果体现。可持续发展教育的进一步推进需要政策、理论和实践等多层面的支持和联动。我国高校围绕立德树人的重要目标，应把可持续发展理念融入学生核心素养和综合素质培养之中。 相似文献
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Academic development is one means of reorientating education within higher education (HE) to include sustainability principles. This paper identifies the requirements of academic development programmes that will provide educators with the skills to engage students in the ideas of sustainability and sustainable development. In order to determine what an ideal academic development programme for sustainability education might look like, a theoretical framework for sustainable education and academic development (SEAD framework) was constructed. This was based on an analysis of the literature in the areas of sustainability education, academic development and organisational change in HE. The aim of this paper was to present and analyse the theoretical SEAD framework against three international academic development programmes in sustainability education for HE, which utilised different approaches and delivery modes. From this analysis, it is possible to determine the elements of academic development that would most likely result in a change in educational development and delivery. 相似文献