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Sustainability Education
A Classroom Guide
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A Classroom Guide
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Description
Overall Winner, SAGT (Scottish Association of Geography Teachers) Awards 2022
Winner, Global Dimension Teachers' Choice Award 2023
Shortlisted, BERA Educational Research Book of the Year 2023
Highly Commended, GA (Geographical Association) Publisher's Awards 2023
This award winning book is at once a guide to and critique of sustainability education for trainee and in-service teachers, curriculum makers, school governors and anyone working with children aged 3 to 14. Now expanded to cover the most pressing topics in this vital area of education, this second edition features:
- Over 200 updated and additional activities linked to fully revised study units and key topics
· Advice, information and suggestions on climate change, citizenship and sustainability education in line with the latest curriculum requirements
· Added and revised case studies of teaching strategies written by teachers and educationalists from every continent.
· Provocative questions to help trainees reflect on their own ideas to turn theory into practice.
Its progressive framework for sustainability education is informed by research findings and learning theory, spanning all subject areas and settings. Age-specific teaching ideas span topics such as conservation, health, food, wildlife, climate change, social justice and sustainable living, as well as provocative questions designed to stimulate educational debate.
Key concepts and links to the UN Global Goals (SDGs), are highlighted throughout, and a companion website offers an extensive toolkit of specially prepared PowerPoint presentations and details of over 100 lectures, reports, picture books, websites and classroom and INSET teaching resources.
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Table of Contents
1. Sustainability: A hybrid concept
2. Sustainability. Prosperity and Well-being
3. Towards a More Sustainable Future
4. Teaching about Sustainability
5. Curriculum organisation and management
6. Earth in Space
7. Life on Land
8. A Watery Planet
9. Weather and Climate
10. Food and Farming
11. Transport and Energy
12. Sustainable Homes and Communities
13. Citizenship and Democracy
14. Pollution and Resources
15. Unequal World
16. Living within our Means
17. Taking Action
18. Designing Your Sustainability Curriculum
19. Sustainability Education in Action
Product details
| Published | 21 Jan 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 2nd |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781350605596 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 50 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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An update to this award-winning book would be super! This is a fast-moving and difficult area of education that classroom practitioners need more support with. The suggestion to scaffold the book around the Earth Charter as well as the SDGs (as they reach the end of their life span) is warmly welcomed. The addition of a chapter on activism will be excellent for all practitioners who find themselves walking a difficult political tightrope, as well as a highly relevant, practical chapter on the design and delivery of a sustainability curriculum to include sustainability literacy.
Elena Lengthorn, University of Worcester, UK, Proposal Review
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This new book would be a substantial improvement on the first edition. […] All of the suggestions for improvements seem fine and the greater focus on climate change is welcome. The additional examples of the various ways schools are approaching sustainability in both the UK and other countries will also add value to the book.
Justin Dillon, University College London, UK, Proposal Review
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Overall, this feels like a good proposal for an updated version of what appears to be a useful and popular text. […] We need to provide a wide range of texts for people to learn about how to embed sustainability in teaching and learning. Without books like this we are failing our students who need these skills both for life, but also regarding careers prospects.
Keziah Stott, Edge Hill University, UK, Proposal Review
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Proposal is looking good. Very broad and open to new ideas. […] Suggested revisions will really enhance the material.
Charles Chikunda, UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa, Proposal Review

























