Systemic Structural Constellations and Sustainability in Academia

A New Method for Sustainable Higher Education

Marlen Arnold

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781315403441
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Sustainable Development
• Index: Economics

In order to create truly sustainable universities, we require new methods of visualising and interpreting them holistically as institutions built on complex relationships and systems, rather than as individual departments and people operating independently. This book uses a systemic structural constellations approach to demonstrate how we can build more sustainable higher education institutions, both in terms of teaching and research and at an operational level.

Drawing examples from current research and teaching, Systemic Structural Constellations and Sustainability in Academia explores how universities are not only centres of teaching and learning but can also play a crucial role in enabling future decision-makers to appreciate and contribute to a more sustainable future.

Providing a clear introduction to systemic structural constellations and guidance on how to practically apply the theory to numerous aspects of the higher education system, this book will be of great interest to students and researchers of education for sustainable development, organisational learning and sustainable management, as well as those tasked with transforming the higher education system for the future.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1 Setting the scene: sustainability challenges in academia
• 2 An introduction to systemic structural constellations
• 3 The phenomenon of representative perception
• 4 Methodical reflections on systemic constellations
• 5 Systemic constellations in organisational and institutional contexts
• 6 Systemic constellations in academia in practice
• 7 Applications for and in academia
• 8 Taking up the final cudgels for systemic structural constellations
• Index