New ways of crafting sustainability leadership for educators : looking through Thoreau's lens

To paraphrase Thoreau, asking the right questions relies on how you look at the world, and whether you see. Achieving sustainable well-being will require profound cultural change, not simply amending economic practices. For this reason, sustainability education is crucial for building the transformed worldviews" culturally inclusive, socially acceptable, ecologically feasible and economically viable" necessary for future innovation and thoroughgoing reform. Sustainability is not a narrow concern, but a fundamental change in the way that we ask questions and see the world. As sustainability leaders we share a vision of fundamentally changing human-environmental interaction and feedback. Our goal as sustainability leaders is not to remain a minority, but to make our vision so widespread that we make our own leadership redundant. I will report on a multi-Australian university approach to systematically and strategically integrate Education for Sustainability (EfS) into the practices of academics and students studying to be teachers. I will showcase our pedagogies, language, and curricula used to build capacity among educators who guide the learning of future teachers. Through innovative curricula, online and virtual resources, we scaffold academics to learn to think in the ways that have become habits to the few. In turn, we leverage the resources we have created, through modelling best practice to foster sustainability thinking.