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Bonnie McBain; Liam Phelan; Anna Ferguson; Paul Brown; Valerie Brown; Iain Hay; Richard Horsfield; Ros Taplin; Daniella Tilbury – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to outline the collaborative approach used to craft national learning standards for tertiary programs in the field of environment and sustainability in Australia. The field of environment and sustainability is broad and constituted by diverse stakeholders. As such, articulating a common set of learning standards…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Postsecondary Education, Cooperation, Environmental Education
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Alarcon-Pereira, Grecia; Rampasso, Izabela Simon; Tapia-Ubeda, Francisco J.; Rojas-Aguilar, Karol; Rojas-Córdova, Carolina – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Considering the relevance of education for sustainable development (SD) to enhancing engineers' abilities to contribute towards sustainability-related issues, this study aims to help understand the global context of the insertion of SD into engineering education and to provide guidelines to further evolve research and efforts towards…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Engineering Education, Higher Education
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Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
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Lee, Ki-Hoon; Hales, Rob – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to explore Master of Business Administration (MBA) students' "reflections" and/or "reflection on practice" of sustainability into responsible management education using Bain et al.'s (2002) 5Rs (reporting, responding, relating, reasoning and reconstructing) reflective scale. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Management Development, Masters Programs, Business Administration Education, Content Analysis
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Sandri, Orana; Holdsworth, Sarah – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper aims to draw on an in-depth qualitative case study of an undergraduate sustainability education course to show the extent of pedagogical reflection and teaching capability demonstrated in lived practice to support transformative, systemic and capability building learning processes, as advocated in the literature, for effective…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Sustainability, Case Studies, Transformative Learning
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Acosta Castellanos, Pedro Mauricio; Queiruga-Dios, Araceli – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: In education concerning environmental issues, there are two predominant currents in the world, environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD). ESD is the formal commitment and therefore promoted by the United Nations, to ensure that countries achieve sustainable development. In contrast, EE was the first…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Engineering Education
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Holmes, Jayden; Moraes, Oli Rafael; Rickards, Lauren; Steele, Wendy; Hotker, Mette; Richardson, Anthony – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore emerging synergies and tensions between the twin moves to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and online learning and teaching (L&T) in higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: A preliminary global exploration of universities' SDG-based L&T…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Web Based Instruction, Sustainable Development, Higher Education
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Melles, Gavin; Lodewyckx, Stefan; Hariharan, Thangatur Sukumar – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study provides a country-specific and sector-wide study of campus sustainability. Campus sustainability is a key consideration for the higher education (HEI) sector, and campus sustainability officers and managers manage its reporting and planning. Global and country-specific studies to date have focussed on individual organisation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Sustainability, Planning
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Martek, Igor; Hosseini, M. Reza; Durdyev, Serdar; Arashpour, Mehrdad; Edwards, David J. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Universities have recognized their rich endowments in research, academic skills and facilities, as uniquely suited to finding "green" solutions. Moreover, the campus setting itself presents as a microcosm of greater society through which to investigate and test innovations. Thus, the "living lab" was born, a means of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Outcomes of Education, Laboratories
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Evans, Neus; Inwood, Hilary; Christie, Beth; Ärlemalm-Hagsér, Eva – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to undertake a cross-comparative inquiry into Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) related to governance, initiatives and practices in initial teacher education (ITE) across four countries with very different contexts -- Sweden, Scotland, Canada and Australia. It provides insights into issues arising…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Preservice Teacher Education, Comparative Education
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Rajabifard, Abbas; Kahalimoghadam, Masoud; Lumantarna, Elisa; Herath, Nilupa; Hui, Felix Kin Peng; Assarkhaniki, Zahra – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: The achievement of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) for all communities and jurisdictions require a comprehensive roadmap that encompasses all dimensions of data infrastructure, social, economic, environmental and governance ecosystems. With this in mind, this paper aims to establish the link between the curriculum and intended…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Curriculum Development
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Murray, Sandra; Peterson, Corey; Primo, Carmen; Elliott, Catherine; Otlowski, Margaret; Auckland, Stuart; Kent, Katherine – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Food insecurity and poor access to healthy food is known to compromise tertiary studies in university students, and food choices are linked to student perceptions of the campus food environment. The purpose of this study is to describe the prevalence, demographic and education characteristics associated with food insecurity in a sample of…
Descriptors: Incidence, Food Service, Hunger, College Environment
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Desha, Cheryl; Caldera, Savindi; Hutchinson, Deanna – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This study aims to explore the role of planned, sudden shifts in lived experiences, in influencing learner capabilities towards improved problem-solving for sustainable development outcomes. The authors responded to employers of engineering and built environment graduates observing limited "real-life" problem-solving skills,…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Sustainable Development, Problem Solving, Engineering
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Arefin, Md. Arman; Nabi, Md. Nurun; Sadeque, Saalem; Gudimetla, Prasad – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Literature limited in scope regarding the incorporation of sustainability into engineering curriculum encouraged authors to look at the current approaches of universities to the integration of sustainability into university curricula. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the literature published and analyse the university secondary…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Engineering Education, Integrated Curriculum