Challenging the Change: Higher Education and the Sustainability
Author: Bob Manteaw
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
AZ United States
10/01/2006
Abstract
AASHE 2006 Abstracts
Challenging the Change: Higher Education and the Sustainability Transition
Bob Manteaw, Doctoral Student, Washington State University.
email: bob_manteaw@wsu.edu
The discourse on sustainability in higher education has often times focused on institutional initiatives and actions as the sole driver of
change. In most institutions, however, such whole-school initiatives backed by institutional policies and support are lacking and so have
left the sustainability movements in the hands of a few committed individuals. This paper examines the work and experiences of some of
these individuals and on how they are challenging the change process almost single-handedly out of personal commitment and passion. It is an
appreciative inquiry that focuses on the positive present; it treats the commitment to sustainability and other issues of social justice as a phenomenon which plays out almost naturally in the works and experiences
of these people. The paper therefore explores what lessons could be learned from these individuals especially when universities have been
slow or reluctant in responding to the issue sustainability education and practice, and to find out what could be done to change the situation as it is now.
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