Work-based and vocational education as catalysts for sustainable development / guest editors, Tony Wall and Ann Hindley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wall, Tony, editor.

Hindley, Ann, editor.

Series:

Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Vocational education--Congresses.

Vocational education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Emerald Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This special issue collates a range of papers from the diverse contexts and forms of work based and vocational education to help review the progress we are making towards the sustainable development goals and to pinpoint future possibilities. The original call identified a range of suggestions including topics such as:* How to integrate responsibility, ethics and sustainability into work-based higher and/or vocational forms of education or reflective practices.* Infusing responsibility, ethics and sustainability into reflective practices.* Innovative pedagogies of work based learning which promote humanistic and holistic forms of learning, or which promote the interrelatedness of humans to other people and/or the planet.* The challenges, tensions, dilemmas or integrating responsibility, ethics and sustainability into work-based higher and/or vocational forms of education or reflective practices.* How work based learning can stimulate changes within educational or other organisational settings, or facilitate transformational change.

Contents:

Covers

Editorial advisory board

Guest editorial

Sustainability 2030: a policy perspective from the University Vocational Awards Council

The green economy learning assessment South Africa

Flexible education in Australia

Social innovation and sustainable tourism lab: an explorative model

Sustainability in the professional accounting and finance curriculum: an exploration

eLearning within the Community of Practice for sustainable development

Clients, clinics and social justice

Drama in higher education for sustainability: work-based learning through fiction?.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78769-710-X