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By Marie Eaton,Holly J. Hughes,Jean MacGregor

ISBN-10: 1138190179

ISBN-13: 9781138190177

ISBN-10: 1138190187

ISBN-13: 9781138190184

How will we foster in students the cognitive complexity, moral improvement, and private get to the bottom of that are required for residing during this "sustainability century"? Tackling those advanced and hugely interdependent difficulties calls for nuanced interdisciplinary understandings, collective endeavors, systemic suggestions, and profound cultural shifts. individuals during this publication current either a reason in addition to a theoretical framework for incorporating reflective and contemplative pedagogies to assist scholars pause, deepen their expertise, imagine extra rigorously, and paintings with complexity in sustainability-focused classes. additionally supplying various correct, well timed assets for school to exploit of their study rooms, Contemplative ways to Sustainability in larger Education serves as a key asset to the efforts of educators to reinforce scholars’ capacities for long term engagement and resilience in a destiny the place sustainability is vital.

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