Making Sustainable Higher Education: A Critique of Scholarly Responsibilities, Professionalisation and Praxis

Abstract

This thesis summary critiques how sustainable higher education (SHE), as a social and discursive practice, is currently constituted and reconstituted in various attempts to disrupt prevailing academic practices of unsustainability. Drawing on poststructuralist and critical hermeneutic perspectives, the study provides a multifaceted analysis of various elements of change regarding SHE. The study particularly focuses on those daily academic experiences of sustainable scholarship that would seek to bring about, as well as potentially resist, deeper transformation at all levels of academic practice.