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Analysing the contribution of continuing education and leadership empowerment to sustainable development: Experiences from a Hong Kong tertiary institution

Evia O.W. Wong (School of Professional and Continuing Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education

ISSN: 1467-6370

Article publication date: 1 December 2003

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Abstract

Sustainable development is considered by many to be an essential direction for our world to move towards. To educate for sustainability is not an easy task and it is essential for all the education practitioners to make their contribution. It is important to accept and adapt changes for sustainable development, and continuing education sector itself has undergone dramatic changes in development since the formulation of the concept by the United Nations Education Scientific and Cultural Organization in the 1960s. Coping with the metamorphosis of society and its increasing demand for multi‐disciplinary, continuing education in the tertiary institution is a continuous learning process on its own. Leadership empowerment becomes one of the sharpening tools for bringing about the change in the institutions. Looks at an integral and practice‐oriented approach of one of the subject areas to introducing sustainable development into continuing education in Hong Kong as well as to explore the significance of leadership empowerment in bringing change and learning to the continuing education in the tertiary education.

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Wong, E.O.W. (2003), "Analysing the contribution of continuing education and leadership empowerment to sustainable development: Experiences from a Hong Kong tertiary institution", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 4 No. 4, pp. 364-374. https://doi.org/10.1108/14676370310497589

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