Sustainability Education - by Stephen Scoffham & Steve Rawlinson (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Sustainability Education: A Classroom Guideprovides an accessible, in-depth guide and critique of sustainability education for school and university students, teachers, curriculum makers and school governors working around the world with children aged 3- to 14-years old. Informed by research findings and learning theory, it provides a progressive framework for sustainability education spanning all subject areas and applicable in a wide range of settings. There are over 180 age-related teaching ideas on topics such as conservation, health, food, wildlife, climate change, social justice and sustainable living, as well as provocative questions designed to stimulate educational debate. Written by two highly experienced UK-based educators, it draws together specially commissioned contributions from Australia, Israel, Norway, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Key concepts and links to the UN Global Goals (SDGs), are highlighted throughout. 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.

Review Quotes

The educational system we have today was designed to suit the needs of the 19th and 20th century. Now that system is fast becoming out of date! Sustainability Education is a timely book outlining an education fit for the 21st century. The authors and contributors have presented a practical way forward to transform teaching in schools from job centred education to life centred and nature centred education. Every teacher concerned with the wellbeing of people and our precious planet Earth should use this publication as a handbook for regenerative learning.
Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College and Editor Emeritus, Resurgence & Ecologist, UK

The guide is an essential reading for those who engage in teaching and learning about the earth. The book is a capsule on sustainability on understanding the topic, its place in curriculum and teaching pedagogies. It discusses the current needs in transforming education to address the demands of the planet.
Radhika Iyengar, Director of Education, Center for Sustainable Development, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA

This timely guide is posed to reorient thinking on sustainability education. Most importantly, young children are invited to take an active part in this journey. Authors throughout the guide display great care in their pedagogical approaches. The message of harmony, coexistence, peace, love, balance and justice is clear.

Charles Chikunda, National Program Officer - Education for Sustainable Development, UNESCO office in Harare, Zimbabwe

About the Author

Stephen Scoffham is Visiting Reader in Sustainability and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and was President of the UK Geographical Association (2018-19).

Steve Rawlinson is Chair of the Primary Geography Editorial Board and was President of the Geographical Association (2015-16). For many years he worked as an Initial Teacher Education Tutor at Northumbria University, UK.

Contributors: Ben Ballin (Educational Consultant, UK) Patty Born (Hamline University, USA) Helen Clarke (Independent Scholar, @attention2place, UK) Richard Hatwood (Denbighshire County Council, UK) Elena Lengthorn (University of Worcester, UK) Paula Owens (Educational Consultant, UK) Hilde Tornby (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway) Sharon Witt (Independent Scholar, @attention2place, UK) Yocheved Yorkovsky (Gordon College of Education, Israel) Natasha Ziebell (University of Melbourne, Australia)