The chapter, "Sustainability: An open question" was written by listed authors including Siobhan Ashe (Douglas College Faculty). Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Environments? What is enacted when we engage with these ideas? Sustainability is a term increasingly used to describe the broader purpose and goal for education as we move further into the UN declared Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD). This book provides a variety of international perspectives from the traditional elds of science and technology education as teachers (primary through tertiary), teacher educators, and academic researchers engage with this topic. The book provides a collection of new works which will help to describe for educators, what it is we develop, and what it is we sustain when we engage in education for sustainable development (ESD). -- From publisher description.
