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The current edition of Transformative Dialogues: teaching and learning ejournal, Volume 8, Issue 2, is freely accessible at: http://kpu.ca/TD/Current_Issue
Sustainability in Post-secondary Education and Leadership
The 1983 Brundtland Commission defined sustainability as "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". This and most other definitions of sustainability refer to three pillars: social, economic and ecological.
There are many aspects of sustainability in post-secondary education and leadership, including examples at the educational developer, instructor, curriculum, institutional and national levels. How have you incorporated sustainability into courses and curricula? In what ways does your institution support it? Where and how are students involved? We explore these and other questions in this special issue.
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Editorial
Sustainability in higher education teaches balance, critical thinking and transferable skills - Alice Cassidy, Associate Editor, Transformative Dialogues
Articles and Essays
Sustainability Principles used to Sustain the Drive towards Teaching Excellence - Julie Saam, Indiana University Kokomo.
Going Deep: Reflections on Teaching Deep Ecology in Costa Rica - Heather L. Burns, Portland State University, Jeffrey Briley, Natural Elements International
Sustainability Education: Three activities you might use or adapt to help educators - Alice Cassidy, Principal, In View Education and Professional Development, Canada; Yona Sipos, Food Systems Analyst, USA and Sarah Nyrose, N.D. Candidate, Boucher Institute of Naturopathic Medicine, Canada
Teaching about Consumption and Sustainability - Liz Grauerholz, University of Central Florida, Anne Bubriski-McKenzie, University of South Carolina-Union, Jessica Racine Jacques, Doctoral Candidate, University of Central Florida
Beyond Sustainability: A Context for Transformative Curriculum Development - Mary F. Wright, University of Wisconsin River Falls, Kelly D. Cain, St. Croix Institute, Florence A. Monsour, University of Wisconsin River Falls
Sustainability-Across-the-Curriculum Audit at George Brown College - Sandra Neill, George Brown
Poem
An Interdisciplinary Study in Fluvial Geomorphology - Lee Beavington, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
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With grateful thanks to the Reviewers for this Issue:
Deborah Kiceniuk, Iain Doherty, Jeanette McDonald, Jody Horn, Karin Manarin, Laura Cruz, LaVonne Cornell-Swanson, Mandy Frake-Mistak, Margy MacMillan, Marianne Poumay, Nancy Chick, Renee Michael, Roger Moore, Stephanie Dimech, Suzanne Le-May Sheffield, Alice Cassidy, Balbir Gurm, Alice Macpherson.
Transformative Dialogues is a forum for conversations intended to foster the improvement of adult teaching and learning. TD facilitates the multi-disciplinary exchange of ideas, actions, and results of innovative and professional practice in the scholarship of teaching and learning.
This is an open access, peer-reviewed online journal.
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This email is also a call for submissions for Volume 9, Issue 1, which will be open until January 15, 2016. This will be an open issue and intended for publication May, 2016.
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Looking forward
Dr. Balbir Gurm Dr. Alice Macpherson Dr. Alice Cassidy
Editor in Chief Technical Editor Associate Editor
Transformative Dialogues: Teaching and Learning Journal
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