Zinaida Fadeeva

Sustainable Development and Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Transformation of Learning and Society - Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education Zinaida Fadeeva

Marc Notes: To help address the challenges of sustainable development, higher education institutions must transform themselves, bringing together best practice in quality management for tertiary education with best practice in education for sustainable development. This book provides tested strategies and pathways for undertaking this successfully. Biographical Note: Zinaida Fadeeva is a Research Fellow at the United Nations University Institute for the Advanced Studies of Sustainability (UNU-IAS), Japan. Laima Galkute is Associated Professor at Vilnius University, Lithuania, and Coordinator of the Regional Centre of Expertise in Education for Sustainable Development (RCE Lithuania) Clemens Mader is Fellow at the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana University of Luneburg, Germany and at the Sustainability Team of University of Zurich, Switzerland; He is Vice President of the COPERNICUS Alliance, the European Higher Education Network for Sustainable Development. Geoff Scott is Emeritus Professor of Higher Education and Sustainability, University of Western Sydney, Australia and a Senior Fellow with the Australian Office for Learning and Teaching. In 2007 he was the recipient of the Australian Higher Education Quality Award. Table of Contents: 1. Assessment for Transformation: Higher Education Thrives in Redefining Quality Systems; Zinaida Fadeeva, Laima Galkute, Clemens Mader and Geoff Scott2. Rankings and the Reconstruction of Knowledge during the Age of Austerity; Ellen Hazelkorn3. Sustainable Engagement: Towards a Participative Quality Culture of Sustainable Development in Higher Education; Oliver Vettori and Christian Rammel4. The Role of Assessment and Quality Management in Transformations towards Sustainable Development: The Nexus between Higher Education, Society and Policy; Clemens Mader5. Drivers for Change in the Austrian University Sector: Implications for Quality Management; Andrea Bernhard and Nadine Shovakar6. Quality Assurance System based on Sustainable Development Paradigm: The Lithuanian Perspective; Laima Galkute7. Quality System Development at the University of Graz: Lessons Learned from the Case of RCE Graz-Styria; Friedrich M. Zimmermann, Andreas Raggautz, Kathrin Maier, Thomas Drage, Marlene Mader, Mario Diethart and Jonas Meyer8. STARS as a Multi-Purpose Tool for Advancing Campus Sustainability in the USA; Monika Urbanski and Paul Rowland9. Sustainability and Values Assessment in Higher Education; Arthur Lyon Dahl10. Educating Sustainability Change Agents by Design: Appraisals of the Transformative Role of Higher Education; Katja Brundiers, Emma Savage, Steven Mannell, Daniel J. Lang and Arnim Wiek11. Quality Management of Education for Sustainability in Higher Education; Geoff Scott12. Implementing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Concept in Higher Education Institutions: Case Study of Albukhary International University AIU), Malaysia; Salfarina Abdul Gapor, Zainal Abidin Sanusi, Dzulkifli Abdul Razak and Abd Malik Abd Aziz

Contributor Bio:  Scott, Geoff Associate Professor Geoff Scott is Quality Coordinator and Chair of the Flexible Learning Taskforce at the University of Technology, Sydney. He has taught postgraduate and undergraduate programs on change management in education and training in the School of Adult Education at the University of Technology, Sydney since 1983 and has lead many investigations into educational innovation at all levels of education.