2nd International Colloquium 2007

Education and Sustainable Development
Capacity Building for the 21st Century

 

 

Workshop 3

Evaluating and Ranking Educational Performance.

 

In short:

The workshop will provide a comprehensive mapping of ongoing initiatives and define conceptual framework to locate key issues of sustainability monitoring, evaluation and ranking. Experiences will be offered by pioneers and an agenda towards the goal to identify best practice will be designed.

 

Whom it may concern:

If you are interested in learning more about ongoing initiatives, get first hand experiences by pioneers in the field and to jointly design a research agenda towards the goal to identify best practice you should attend this workshop.

 

 

With the call for integration of sustainability across research, education and campus operation the question of good practice arises: how can universities and their stakeholders monitor and evaluate progress against the abstract concept of sustainability in higher education?

Driven by internal and external advocates of ESD different approaches have evolved that might set future standards: from qualitative surveys to award-schemes, rankings and benchmarking, there is a new field of evaluation emerging.

The workshop will provide a comprehensive mapping of ongoing initiatives and define a conceptual framework to locate key issues of sustainability monitoring, evaluation and ranking. First hand experience will be offered by the pioneers in the field and taking a stakeholder approach, intended and unintended consequences of such evaluations will be systematically explored. As a tangible result of the workshop, the participants jointly design a research agenda towards the ultimate goal to identify best practice in a fair, effective and efficient way.

Co-Chairs:

¨       Gerd Michelsen, Vice President, University of Lüneburg, UNESCO Chair for Higher Education for Sustainable Development, Germany

¨       Claude Siegenthaler, Department for Humanity and Environment, Hosei University, Japan

 

Experts:

¨       Segalŕs Jordi, Vice-Dean for International Relations & Sustainability, Polytechnical University of Catalunia, Spain

¨       Yoshihisa Murasawa, Project Professor of Integrated Research System of Sustainability Sciences, The University of Tokyo

¨       Kenji Shiraishi, Section Chief, Education Division, The Japan Ministry for Environment, Tokyo, (to be confirmed)

 

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