By Michael M'Gonigle, Justine Starke
ISBN-10: 0865715572
ISBN-13: 9780865715578
Planet U locations the college on the vanguard of the sustainability stream. wondering the university’s skill to equip society to accommodate today’s severe demanding situations akin to fiscal development, democratic citizenship and planetary survival, it demands a brand new social move to take a lead in reforming the university.
The publication reports the university’s 900-year heritage from medieval non secular thinker, to Renaissance nation-builder, to its sleek functionality as education grounds for the world’s managerial classification and the world’s greatest undefined. It examines different campus tasks throughout North the US and Europe and their conventional matters of eco-friendly structures, renewable power and transportation call for administration. however it additionally demonstrates the promise for social and ecological growth open to the “planetary college” as soon as the collage takes its position heavily and discovers its new project: to create diversified types of neighborhood and worldwide innovation founded round difficult new questions about what universities — and their societies — can achieve:
• How may possibly the collage support flow us to a post-automobile, energy-saving society?
• How may well universities aid refashion the town to be sustainable?
• How may perhaps universities be ruled for sustainability?
Lively, enticing and completely timed for the UN Decade for Sustainability in schooling introduced in 2005, Planet U may have vast appeal.
Michael M’Gonigle, Professor and Eco-Research Chair of Environmental legislations and coverage on the college of Victoria, is a co-founder of Greenpeace overseas and has released broadly on sustainability concerns. Justine Starke is a study affiliate within the POLIS venture on Ecological Governance on the college of Victoria.
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With their senior professors and junior students, they also connect society’s elders with its youth. With their interdisciplinary studies and many Considering place When we fail to consider places as products of human decisions, we accept their Pedagogue of place. existence as noncontroversial or inevitable, like the falling of rain or the fact of Professor Alejandro Rojas the sunrise. Moreover, when we accept the existence of places as unproblem- in the UBC Gardens. atic — places such as the farm, the bank, the landfill, the strip mall, the gated community and the new car lot — we also become complicit in the political processes, however problematic, that stewarded these places into being and that continue to legitimize them.
Qxp 4/25/2006 12:19 PM Page 41 genealogy of an ancient edifice 41 want to reflect critically on the university for fear of undermining the institution that has shaped our thinking for so many centuries, and thereby engendering a demise of the civilization it has built and a return to the chaos that preceded the Age of Reason. Ironically, by not doing so at a time of unparalleled individual freedoms, humanity strides into Jacobs’s new “dark age,” into a prison of its own making — of the university’s making — never even seeing its walls until, perhaps, it is too late.
37 The rise of the higher education industry is one of the most important, and most overlooked, trends of the past half-century. ”38 Thus, while the university is an “industry” in the new knowledge economy, it is more than that because the specialists of most other industries in this economy were trained at the university. In the knowledge economy, it is literally the mother of all industries! Yet, in the growing linkage of this one industry with all the others, the university risks being equated with the corporate goals of these industries.