No Transition Without Transformation: Educating Sustainability

Abstract

Sustainability transition is not new for higher education. Universities around the world have discussed about the topic since the 1970s, publishing series of reports and declarations of intentions. These documents kept calling for transdisciplinary approaches and the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development competences. However, a few decades after, HEIs struggle with the operationalization of an educational vision on sustainable development into the practicality of a faculty program or curricula. This chapter calls the academic community to explore new learning contexts that facilitate moving to higher orders of learning that can sustain the integration sustainability approaches. Moving to deeper levels of learning means the transition from educating about sustainability towards educating for sustainability and the final destination: educating as sustainability.