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Member Event: Professor Stephen Sterling Triple Change and Sustainability: Re-booting the response of Higher Education to a different world
24th May 2018, 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
“There can have been very little thinking, writing or policy development in the sustainability education field, world -wide over the last 30 years that has not been informed to some extent by Stephen’s work. The impact on practitioners has been immense”.
Dr Stephen Sterling is:
- Emeritus Professor of Sustainability Education at the Centre for Sustainable Futures, University of Plymouth, UK.
- Former Senior Advisor to the UK Higher Education Academy on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD),
- a National Teaching Fellow,
He has worked in environmental and sustainability education in the academic and NGO fields nationally and internationally for over four decades, including as a consultant and advisor on UNESCO’S ESD programmes.
He is currently co-chair of the UNESCO-Japan Prize on ESD International Jury, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute. He is widely published in this area, the most recent book being Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education: Remaking Education for the Future, (co-edited with Bob Jickling, Pivot/Palgrave, 2017).
For further information contact: beth.christie@ed.ac.uk