Education for Sustainable Development resources
Browse sustainability education publications produced by staff from the University of Plymouth, as well as useful links
Sustainability education resources and information
Useful links
The QAA has published guidance for HE providers on ESD:
QAA Education for Sustainable Development: Guidance for Higher Education Providers
QAA Education for Sustainable Development: Guidance for Higher Education Providers
Go Green Tool Guide- This tool is easy to use and you do not require any environmental expertise to use it.
EAUC Environmental Association of Universities and Colleges- a not-for-profit charity with a membership of over 220 universities and colleges, supporting sustainability within the UK tertiary education sector.
Any member of staff or student of the University of Plymouth can log in and benefit from the many resources and new ideas available about sustainability education around the UK.
Exploring Sustainability- informative and engaging website from the Canterbury Christ Church University Futures Initiative, which is a long-term change programme designed to develop understanding about sustainability in academic life. It has been written by Stephen Scoffham and is based on research, scholarship and the practical experience of teaching about sustainability in higher education.
The Complete Guide On How To Make Your Business Green in 2016- From short-term, quick wins to long-term strategies, improving your business's green credentials should definitely be on the agenda.
Reduce your carbon footprint with Carbonfund.org- The Carbonfree® Partner program is an innovative and flexible way to help your business calculate, reduce and offset your carbon footprint. You will help the environment, fight global warming, and help make the transition to a clean energy future possible.
Sustainability with the University of Plymouth
Wyness, L. (2012) Sustainability in the Curriculum Review: Executive Summary, Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth.
CSF/PedRIO books/chapters and teaching resources
Jones, P., Selby, D. & Sterling, S. (2010) Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education, Earthscan: London & Washington, DC
Peterson, A. & Warwick, P. (2014) Global Learning and Education. Oxon: Routledge.
Sterling, S., Warwick, P. and Wyness, L. (2015) Understanding approaches to ESD research on teaching and learning in Higher Education. In Routledge Handbook of Higher Education for Sustainable Development (edited by Matthias Barth, Marco Reickmann, Ger Michelson and Ian Thomas). Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon. DOI: 10.4324/9781315852249
Sterling, S., Maxey, L. & Luna, H. (2013) The Sustainable University: Progress and Prospects, Earthscan from Routledge: Oxon & New York
Sterling, S. (2013) The Future Fit Framework: An introductory guide to teaching and learning for sustainability in HE. Higher Education Academy Publication: York.
Sterling, S. (last revised 2008) Sowing Seeds: How to make your modules a bit more sustainability-related, Centre for Sustainable Futures
Selby, D., Jones, P., & Kagawa, F. (2008) A Big Hairy Audacious Goal: Marketing University Sustainability Credentials, Centre for Sustainable Futures Occasional Paper 1
Wyness, L., Jones, P. and Klapper, R. (2015) Sustainability: what the entrepreneurship educators think, Education + Training, 58: 8/9.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ET-03-2015-0019
Wyness, L. (ed.) (2015) Education for Sustainable Development Pedagogy: Criticality, Creativity, and Collaboration, PedRIO Occasional Paper 8: University of Plymouth.
Wyness, L. (ed.) (2015) Education for Sustainable Development: Towards the Sustainable University, PedRIO Occasional Paper 9: University of Plymouth.
CSF peer-reviewed articles
Blake, J., Sterling, S. & Goodson, I. (2013) 'Transformative Learning for a Sustainable Future: An Exploration of Pedagogies for Change at an Alternative College', Sustainability, 5, 1-x manuscripts (Open Access http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/5/12/5347)
Peterson, A. & Warwick, P. (2014) 'Service or service learning - a review of recent citizenship teaching and learning accepted educational policies in England'. Citizenship Teaching and Learning, 9:3 September 2014
Wyness, L. & Sterling, S. (2015) 'Reviewing the incidence and status of sustainability in degree programmes at the University of Plymouth, International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 16:2, pp. 237 - 250.
Wyness, L. (2013) 'Talking of citizenship…' Exploring the contribution an intergenerational participatory learning project can make to the promotion of active citizenship in a sustainable community’, Local Environment: International Journal of Sustainability and Justice, 18: 10.
University of Plymouth publications
Anderson, A. (2013) ‘‘Together we can save the Arctic’: celebrity advocacy and the Rio Earth Summit 2012’, Celebrity Studies, 4:3, pp. 339-352
Aronsson, J. (2016) 'Transformative sustainability learning within the undergraduate nursing curriculum', Community Practitioner, January 2016.
Aronsson, J. (2013) 'How can SCPHN/school nurses contribute to the sustainability agenda?', Community Practitioner, 86 (7), pp. 38-40.
Cook R., Cutting R. & Summers D. (2010) 'If Sustainability Needs New Values, Whose Values? Initial Teacher Training and the Transition to Sustainability.' In P. Jones, D. Selby and S. Sterling (eds) (2010) Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice Across Higher Education. London: Earthscan.
Cotton, D., Winter, J., & Bailey, I. (2012) 'Researching the hidden curriculum: intentional and unintended messages' Journal of Geography in Higher Education, (IFIRST), pp. 1 - 12
Haslett, S., France, D. & Gedye, S. (2012) Pedagogy of Climate Change. Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences (GEES) Subject Centre: Plymouth, UK.
O’Sullivan, C. (2013) ‘Researching the Sustainable School: the ethics of an ethnographic study’, in Lee, E, Blackmore, C & Seal, E (eds). Research Journeys: revealing the doctoral process. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Murray, P. (2011) The Sustainable Self, Earthscan.
Pan, W., Murray, P., Cotton, D. and Garmston, H. (2012) Integrating Research-informed Teaching into Sustainable Construction Education. Journal for Education in the Built Environment, 7:1, pp. 94-117.
Summers, D. (2013) 'Education for Sustainable Development in Initial Teacher Education: From Compliance to Commitment - Sowing the Seeds of Change', Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 7:2, pp. 205–222
Tighe, M., Whiteford, A. & Richardson, J. (2013). ‘Stepping Out’: Enabling Community Access to Green Space through Inter-disciplinary Practice Learning in Plymouth, UK. International Journal of Practice-based Learning in Health and Social Care, 1(2), 8-22.
Winter, J., Cotton, D. & Grant, V. (2012) 'Experiencing transformation: A student Perspective' Sustainable Development at Universities: New Horizons. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp. 85 – 97
Winter, J. & Cotton, D. (2012) 'Making the hidden curriculum visible: sustainability literacy in higher education', Environmental Education Research, 18:6, pp. 783 - 796