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    Collaborative partnership for education for sustainability: New Zealand vocational education

    Sharma, Rashika

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    2011
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    Sharma, R. (2011). Collaborative partnership for education for sustainability: New Zealand vocational education. International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 7(1), 23-32.
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    https://hdl.handle.net/10652/1735
    Abstract
    This year marks the midpoint of the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development but sustainability still remains a foreign concept in the New Zealand vocational and trade education curriculum. Thus research was conducted to gauge the existing perceptions of academics and industry and discover the reasons for the slow embedding of sustainability concepts in the curriculum. The research followed a qualitative research methodology using a case study as the method of inquiry which collected data through 8 in-depth interviews conducted with academics and industry personnel at a New Zealand vocational institute. The research found that there was no collaboration between academics and industry when it came to education for sustainability (EfS) with neither group taking responsibility for embedding the concepts into the curriculum. The overall awareness level on sustainability was very low between the two researched groups. Academics and Industry personnel alike saw no relevance of sustainability in vocational trade education. The slow progress of embedding sustainability concepts into the vocational education curriculum could be a result of this lack of collaboration between these two groups thus it is recommended that a professional development course be designed for vocational academics and industry personnel to increase awareness on sustainability concepts.
    Keywords:
    education for sustainability, vocational education, sustainability concepts, embedding into curriculum, environmental sustainability
    ANZSRC Field of Research:
    130213 Vocational Education and Training Curriculum and Pedagogy
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