Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : sustainable development teaching : ethical and political challenges / Katrien Van Poeck, Leif stman and Johan hman -- Four misunderstandings about sustainability and transitions / Thomas Block and Erik Paredis -- Tackling wicked problems in teaching and learning : sustainability issues as knowledge, ethical and political challenges / Thomas Block, Katrien Van Poeck and Leif stman -- Principles for sustainable development teaching / Leif stman, Katrien Van Poeck and Johan hman -- Sustainable development teaching in view of qualification, socialisation and person-formation / Katrien Van Poeck and Leif stman -- Different teaching traditions in environmental and sustainability education / Johan hman and Leif stman -- The ethical tendency typology : ethical and moral situations in environmental and sustainability education / Johan hman and Leif stman -- A pragmatist perspective on value education / Johan hman and David O. Kronlid -- The political tendency typology : different ways in which the political dimension of sustainability issues appears in educational practice / Michael Hk̄ansson, Katrien Van Poeck and Leif stman -- Deliberation and agonism : two different approaches to the political dimension of environmental and sustainability education / ℓsgeir Tryggvason and Johan hman -- A transactional theory on sustainability learning / Leif stman, Katrien Van Poeck and Johan hman -- A transactional theory on sustainability teaching : teacher moves / Leif stman, Katrien Van Poeck and Johan hman -- Ethical moves : how teachers can open-up a space for articulating moral reactions and deliberating on ethical opinions regarding sustainability issues / Katrien Van Poeck, Leif stman and Johan hman -- Political moves : how teachers can open-up for and handle poignant experiences of the conflictual aspects of sustainability issues / Katrien Van Poeck and Leif stman -- Classroom discussions : students' learning in argumentation about ethical and political aspects of sustainability issues / Karin Rudsberg and Johan hman -- Power and governance in environmental and sustainability education practice / Marie hman and Johan hman -- Teaching as a matter of staging encounters with literary texts in environmental and sustainability education / Petra Hansson -- Taking-up ethical global issues in the classroom / Louise Sund and Karen Pashby -- Students as political subjects in discourses on sustainable development : a glimpse from Sarah's classroom / Iann Lundegr̄d -- Embodied experiences of "decision-making" in face of uncertain and complex sustainability issues / Pernilla Andersson -- Political emotions in environmental and sustainability education / ℓsgeir Tryggvason and Andreas Mr̄dh.