Sustainability education and teaching leadership.(Report)

Abstract

Leadership development within higher education can be a catalyst for creating a more sustainable world, as engaged learners are prepared to seek and solve complex problems through critical analysis, collaboration, and service to their communities. The authors show how learning models from two institutions, based in principles of sustainability education, carry leadership theory into practice in the sustainability perspective and demonstrate how students can interact with their communities as a means both to learning and to facilitating forms of community-based leadership. This serves to help transform societies, on local and global scales, to durably ...