Beyond tick boxes: re-imagining education for sustainable development in higher education
Journal article
Young, H. (2024). Beyond tick boxes: re-imagining education for sustainable development in higher education . Professional Development in Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2024.2394879
Authors | Young, H. |
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Abstract | We are in an era of climate breakdown, mass extinction and global injustice. Through analysis of the new UK Professional Standards Framework (PSF) for academics, this paper explores some global challenges of incorporating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in the neoliberal university. The PSF is a globally recognised framework for professional development, yet its recent review concluded that ESD could not be included within it. The paper discusses the disconnect between the growing recognition of the need for education that responds to our planetary predicament and the particular logics and rationalities of a neoliberal framework. In its critique of the underpinning assumptions of the PSF and its wider context, it discusses (im)possibilities of values and unlearning in a performativity driven setting. Next, it provides generative provocations to those using such frameworks for their own professional development or to support the development of peers. It invites academics to find new ways of using the limits of these narrow professional development practices as prefigurative for a less disconnected university where other possibilities for responding to our planetary predicament can be imagined. |
Keywords | education for sustainable development; SDG Target 4.7; professional standards framework; higher education policy; tick boxes |
Year | 2024 |
Journal | Professional Development in Education |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
ISSN | 1941-5257 |
1941-5265 | |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/19415257.2024.2394879 |
Web address (URL) | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19415257.2024.2394879#abstract |
Publication dates | |
Online | 28 Aug 2024 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 08 Aug 2024 |
Deposited | 29 Aug 2024 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/98009
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