Sustainable Tertiary Education in Asia: Policies, Practices, and Developments

239 Pages·2022·4.938 MB·English

by  Tamara Savelyeva, Gao Fang

Tamara Savelyeva
Gao Fang   Editors
Sustainable
Tertiary
Education in
Asia
Policies, Practices, and Developments
Sustainable Tertiary Education in Asia
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Tamara Savelyeva Gao Fang
Editors
Sustainable Tertiary
Education in Asia
Policies, Practices, and Developments
Editors
TamaraSavelyeva GaoFang
TheHongKongInstituteofEducation DepartmentofInternationalEducation
forSustainableDevelopmentUNESCO TheEducationUniversityofHongKong
China HongKong,China
HongKong,China
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Foreword
Animportantfeatureofthetwenty-firstcenturyisthegrowingconcernthattoday’s
world has become “unsustainable” as questions are being raised about the state of
society to date. Against this backdrop, the sustainable development goals (SDGs)
wereadoptedbytheUnitedNationsin2015,anditisimportantforthenextgeneration
toacquirethequalitiesandabilitiesthatwillenablethemtoliveinaneraconfronted
with the diverse issues raised by the SDGs. What qualities and abilities will be
importantforthenextgenerationtoacquire?Andhowcanthesepeopleworktogether
tomaketheworldmore“sustainable”?
Thesequestionsareofgreatinteresttomanypeopleinvolvedinhighereducation
around the world today. One of the answers to these concerns is the promotion of
EducationforSustainableDevelopment(ESD),inwhichhumanresourcedevelop-
mentandknowledgecreation,especiallythroughhighereducation,areessentialto
solvingthevariouschallengesposedbytheSDGs.InordertorealisetheSDGs,itis
necessarytoraisepeople’sawarenessofglobalissues,tomakeethicaldecisionsand
takeactionsbasedonsocialjustice,andtodevelopscienceandtechnologythrough
researchanddevelopment.ESDiseducationtodevelophumanresourceswithsuch
qualitiesandabilities.
ThroughESD,peoplecanlearnhowtousetheirownexpertisetoavoidthecatas-
trophicsituationsuggestedbytheconceptof“planetaryboundaries”,tohelppeople
leadmore“prosperous”andstablelives,topreventfurtherdeteriorationofthenatural
environment,andtorestoresocietyandtheplanettoahealthierstate.Itisimportant
tounderstandthat“prosperous”inthiscontextdoesnotmeanthestatethathasbeen
achievedbysingle-mindedlypursuingeconomicgrowthinthepastbutthestatethat
enablespeopletoleadhealthyandhappylives(i.e.well-being).
This book edited by Dr. Tamara Savelyeva and Dr. Gao Fang examines these
characteristicsofESDfromvariousperspectives.Thebookisanexcellentacademic
work with many examples of ESD in higher education in the Asian and Eurasian
contexts.ESDinitiativesinhighereducationinstitutionsarestillintheirinfancyin
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many countries and societies. I strongly believe that this book will give readers a
betterunderstandingofthistopic,whichisexpectedtodevelopfurtherinthefuture.
YutoKitamura
Professor
GraduateSchoolofEducation
TheUniversityofTokyo
Tokyo,Japan
Contents
1 AnIntroductiontotheSustainabilityofTertiaryEducation
in Asia: Collaborations, Transformations, Global–Local
Tensions,andFutureDevelopments ............................. 1
TamaraSavelyeva
PartI Collaborations
2 Sustainable Tertiary Educational Collaboration: Korea’s
SharedExperiencesandtheChallenges ......................... 13
Ji-SoonChang
3 NurturingaGoodNeighbour:AReviewofSino-Kazakhstani
HigherEducationCooperation ................................. 31
AisiLi
4 Delivering Programs on Education for Sustainable
Development(ESD)andUNSustainableDevelopmentGoals
(SDGs) in Mainland China and the Hong Kong Special
AdministrativeRegion:AnAssessmentoftheHongKong
InstituteofEducationforSustainableDevelopment .............. 43
StephanieW.Lee,SamsonC.W.Ma,andNgokLee
PartII Transformations
5 LaoziforHigherEducationonSustainability:ItsPrinciples,
Logic,andHolisticRelevance .................................. 69
OrlandoNangKwokHo
6 Elite to Mass to Universal: The Historical Development,
InternationalizationandSustainabilityofTertiaryEducation
inHongKong ................................................. 89
Siu-WaiWuandDavidSorrell
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7 LiberalStudiesReformandSustainabilityConsciousness
inHongKongTertiaryEducation ............................... 109
TamaraSavelyeva
PartIII Global—LocalTensions
8 The Empowering Potential of Higher Education
for Underprivileged Ethnic Minorities’ Sustainable
DevelopmentinHongKong:EducationalPoliciesforAccess
andEquity ................................................... 129
GaoFangandHenryChiYinLiu
9 Transforming Tertiary Education Environments
forSustainableDevelopmentoftheSakhalinRegioninRussia ..... 143
IrinaBalitskayaandNitikaJain
10 InstitutionalBrandConstructandUniversitySustainability ....... 163
NanJiaandJaePark
PartIV FutureDevelopments
11 Vocational cum Pedagogical Tertiary Education
andSustainableDevelopmentinRussia ......................... 179
GalinaSikorskaiaandTamaraSavelyeva
12 Creating a Sustainable College Performance Evaluation
inChina ...................................................... 197
LuxiZhang,DavidSorrell,PaulAdams,andBobAdamson
13 Formative Assessment for Lifelong Learning, Effective
Teaching,andSustainableDevelopmentinRussia ................ 217
ElzaPecheritsa
14 Conclusion—TowardsaGeneralFrameworkofSustainable
TertiaryEducation ............................................ 231
TamaraSavelyeva
Index ............................................................. 237
Editors and Contributors
AbouttheEditors
Tamara Savelyeva is Associate Professor of Sustainable Education at the Hong
KongInstituteofEducationforSustainableDevelopment.SheservesasProgramme
Director at the UNESCO Hong Kong Association; Senior Founding Fellow of the
WorldInstituteofSustainableDevelopmentPlannersinHongKongSAR;andEdito-
rialBoardMemberoftheInternationalJournalofSustainabilityinHigherEducation.
Sheconductseducationalresearchandprojectsintheareasofsustainabilityeduca-
tion development in different countries. Together with participants of the Rio+20
higher education meeting in Brazil, she has contributed to the educational frame-
work for the 2012 Earth Summit. Her recent scholarly works include In times of
uncertainty:AdvancinguniversitysustainabilitymodelinHongKong(2022),New
knowledgeecologiesandpoliticsoftechnologicalchange(2021),andSDG3Health
andWellbeing:Re-calibratingtheSDGAgenda(2019).
Gao Fang is Associate Professor in the Department of International Education at
theEducationUniversityofHongKong.Hermainresearchinterestsareinminority
educationandsociologyofeducation.ShehaspublishedBecomingamodelminority:
SchoolingexperiencesofethnicKoreansinChina(2010),32papersininternational
refereedjournals,and14refereedbookchapters.Sheco-editedEducation,ethnicity
andequityinthemultilingualAsiancontext(2019).SheisalsotheeditorforIdenti-
ties,practicesandeducationofevolvingmulticulturalfamiliesinAsia-pacifictobe
published.
Contributors
AdamsPaul UniversityofStrathclyde,Glasgow,Scotland
AdamsonBob UniversityofNottinghamNingboChina,Ningbo,China
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BalitskayaIrina SakhalinStateUniversity,Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,Russia
ChangJi-Soon SangmyungUniversity,Seoul,SouthKorea
FangGao TheEducationUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China
HoOrlandoNangKwok CharteredInstituteofLinguists,London,UK;
AustralianInstituteofInterpretersandTranslators,Melbourne,Australia
JainNitika InstituteofEducation,UniversityCollegeLondon,London,UK
JiaNan UOWCollegeHongKong,HongKong,China
LeeNgok UNESCOHongKongAssociation,HongKong,China
LeeStephanieW. College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong
KongPolytechnicUniversity,HongKong,China
LiAisi NazarbayevUniversity,Astana,Kazakhstan
LiuHenryChiYin TheUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China
MaSamsonC.W. InstituteofManagementConsultantsHongKong,HongKong,
China
ParkJae TheEducationUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China
PecheritsaElza Innovations Council of the Teachers Professional Re-Training
InstituteofTomskRegion,Tomsk,Russia
SavelyevaTamara TheHongKongInstituteofEducationforSustainableDevel-
opment,UNESCOChina,HongKong,China
SikorskaiaGalina RussianAcademyofNaturalSciences,Ekaterinburg,Russia
SorrellDavid TheEducationUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China
WuSiu-Wai TheEducationUniversityofHongKong,HongKong,China
ZhangLuxi ZhejiangGong’shangUniversity,Hangzhou,China