Introducing a conceptual framework called the Paradox Model, this book assesses the challenge of developing sustainability in higher education in the 21st century. For academics and educators from a wide range of disciplines in higher educational settings interested in translating sustainability theory into educational practice.

1. Introduction: Navigating Educational Tensions: The Paradox Model Part 1: Rethinking Educational Purpose 2. 'Swallowing a World': Reflections on Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education 3. Education for Life 4. Educating for the Future in the Humanities: Passion, Utility and Student Perspectives of Employability in Higher Education 5. A Fragile Education for a Good World: 'Kenosis' and Self-giving in Teaching for Sustainability and Change Part 2: Pedagogies of (Re)connection 6. A Sense of Beauty in Belonging to the Whole 7. Developing Sustainability Education Through Small-Scale Interventions 8. Walking Towards Embodied Understanding 9. Entanglements: 'Story Telling for Earthly Survival' 10. Understanding Sustainability Pedagogy in Practice Part 3: (Higher) education as if the world mattered 11. Wilding Higher Education: From Monoculture to Messy Margins 12. Researching "Education for Sustainability": Undergraduate Trainees Join the Dots 13. What We Must Do Now: The Response(ability) of Universities to the Global Crises 14. Good (Higher) Education in a Fragile World