Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: Elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development (Video)
The announcement for the 2009 New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit asserts that “Tertiary education and research underpin the realisation of New Zealanders’ goals and aspirations, and the sustainable development of New Zealand’s economy and society…. Daunting new challenges … identify the need for tertiary education to assume new responsibilities.”
This presentation addresses two of New Zealand’s challenges:
- Building national capacity for long-term wealth-creating innovation, and
- Responding to business’ and society’s concerns about sustainable development.
The presentation argues that education for sustainable development - appropriately implemented - contributes strongly to establishing:
- Valuable foundations for the emerging ‘sixth wave’ of innovations that underpin the creation of a nation’s distinctive core competencies, and
- The trans-disciplinary academic literacies required to support competitive success in the 21st century.
A presentation delivered to students of BSNS 5391 Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Faculty of Creative Industries and Business, Unitec Institute of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand
An earlier version first presented at:
Mellalieu, P. J. (2009). Shifting frontiers, new priorities, creating pathways: elevating the case for tertiary education for sustainable development in New Zealand. New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit 2009 (TES). Presented at the New Zealand Tertiary Education Summit 2009, Wellington, New Zealand: Bright*Star Conferences & Training Ltd. Retrieved from http://preview.tinyurl.com/tes2009
- Get Educated in New Zealand (socyberty.com)
