Post-Sustainability and Environmental Education: Remaking Education for the Future, edited by Bob Jickling and Stephen Sterling, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 155pp., £49.99 (softcover), ISBN 978-3-319-84619-4, £49.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-319-51321-8, £39.99 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-319-51322-5 This compilation of essays by educators from around the world casts a critical eye over Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and in... View Article

Introduction The connection between education and research yields the promise of sufficiently educating students as future professionals for the knowledge society (Barnett, 2012; Healey & Jenkins, 2015). The importance and necessity of this connection is embraced at all levels of formal decision making: By the European Committee (2017), among national policy makers (Ministry of Education,... View Article

Introduction Pre-sessional English (PSE) courses are designed to help students improve their English for academic purposes. These courses are intensive and high pressured, with many institutions recruiting a high number of teachers at peak periods during the year. The short-term nature of these teaching roles means that many teachers could work at a different institution... View Article

Introduction Geography is a subject of skills. Students learn to make maps, survey diverse populations, construct searching interviews, or mine databases to reveal geographical distributions. It is a subject of fieldwork through space and time, which integrates skills from many other disciplines: anthropology, geology, biology, psychology, sociology. Many unusual intellectual syntheses arise through the resulting... View Article

Volume 10. A full order of magnitude. I have always enjoyed Ben Goldacre’s “Bad Science” columns and blog and his appositely titled second book, I Think You’ll Find It’s a Bit More Complicated Than That (Fourth Estate: London, 2014) expresses how I feel about this slim volume. HEJLT remains a challenge. We need a “vision... View Article