Colleagues,
Here's details of a paper that you might be interested in:
Scott WAH & Gough SR (2007) Universities and Sustainable Development:
the necessity for barriers to change; Perspectives: Policy & Practice
in Higher Education; 11(4) 109–118
This paper reviews recent developments in England in relation to
higher education and sustainable development, raises questions about
the role that universities in a liberal democracy might have in
relation to this, argues that sustainable development is an important
focus for universities, but that their freedom to explore this idea in
ways that make contextual sense to them and their stakeholders needs
to be safeguarded against too instrumentalist and prescriptive a view
which would actually serve only to inhibit the possibilities for
sustainable development, and concludes that universities need to
establish effective barriers if their staff and students are to have
their necessary freedom to research, teach and learn protected.
Bill
NB, our latest book: Gough SR & Scott WAH (2007) Sustainable
Development and Higher Education: paradox and possibility; London:
Routledge
will be published in the next few weeks. See:
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Professor William Scott
Director of the Centre for Research in Education and the Environment
http://www.bath.ac.uk/cree/
Department of Education, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK
Office phone: +44(0)1225386648 Fax: +44(0)1225386113
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