Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism

Autor/inn/en	Peterson, Rachelle; Wood, Peter W.
Institution	National Association of Scholars (NAS)
Titel	Sustainability: Higher Education's New Fundamentalism
Quelle	(2015), (262 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Higher Education; College Curriculum; Environmental Education; Freedom; Decision Making; Ideology; Role; Climate; College Faculty; Teacher Attitudes; Student Attitudes; Scientists; International Trade; Lawyers; Political Attitudes; Conservation (Environment); History; Costs; Criticism; Educational Change; Economic Factors + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Freiheit; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Ideologie; Rollen; Klima; Fakultät; Lehrerverhalten; Schülerverhalten; Scientist; Wissenschaftler; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Lawyer; Rechtsanwalt; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Geschichte; Geschichtsdarstellung; Cost; Kosten; Kritik; Bildungsreform; Ökonomischer Faktor
Abstract	"Sustainability" is a key idea on college campuses in the United States and the rest of the Western world. To the unsuspecting, sustainability is just a new name for environmentalism. This report is the first in-depth critical study of the sustainability movement in higher education. The focus of this study is on how the sustainability movement has, according to these authors, distorted higher education, the harm it has done to college curricula, and the limits it has imposed on the freedom of students to inquire and to make their own decisions. The report explains how the sustainability movement came to prominence and how it is organized. After presenting the findings, the report offers recommendations and concludes that the sustainability movement has become a major force in American life that has largely escaped serious critical scrutiny. The goal of this report is to change that by examining for the first time the movement's ideological, economic, and practical effects on institutions of higher education. The following are appended: (1) Living with Climate Orthodoxy on Campus: One Professor's Take; (2) Divesting Reason: A Student's Perspective; (3) Environmental Lysenkoism: Reflections from a Scientist; and (4) A Transnational, "Precautionary" Movement: Thoughts from an International Trade Lawyer. An index is also included. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01