Planetary Praxes and Sustainable Universities

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dc.contributor.advisorAlsop, Steven John
dc.creatorBentley, Christopher Michael
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-28T15:03:47Z
dc.date.available2015-08-28T15:03:47Z
dc.date.copyright2014-10-30
dc.date.issued2015-08-28
dc.date.updated2015-08-28T15:03:47Z
dc.degree.disciplineEducation
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMEd - Master of Education
dc.description.abstractWhat is sustainability in Higher Education (HE)? How should it be represented? Who gets to decide? This thesis offers a response to a particular technocratic and teleological way of thinking about sustainability in Higher Education, which has a series of high profile advocates in theory and policy. In contrast, my study explores two particular sustainability projects (Energy Management Project and Local Food) at a large Canadian suburban university campus. Using a grounded theory/situational analysis approach, I represent these two projects as dynamically bound praxes (shaped by a series of actors and imaginaries). Results: given the historical exigency and contention surrounding sustainability since the mid-90s, a multiplicity of actors in the Keele campus, both semiotic and material, have moved into positions to transform its demarcated boundaries therein. As I have begun to map these movements, I suggest this work be continued by future researchers in a position to do so.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/29928
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectAdult education
dc.subjectSustainability
dc.subjectScience education
dc.subject.keywordsYork University
dc.subject.keywordsSustainability
dc.subject.keywordsEnergy
dc.subject.keywordsLocal Food
dc.subject.keywordsFarmers' Markets
dc.subject.keywordsPraxis
dc.subject.keywordsPolicy Enactments
dc.subject.keywordsActor-Network Theory
dc.titlePlanetary Praxes and Sustainable Universities
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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