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Souresh Cornet; Saswat Barpanda; Marc-Antoine Diego Guidi; P. K. Viswanathan – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims at understanding how higher education institutions (HEIs) can contribute to sustainable development, by designing their programmes for bringing about a transformative impact on communities and students, and also to examine what alternative pedagogical approaches could be used for that. In the past decades, HEIs have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Higher Education, Community Development
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Bandyopadhyay, Kaustuv Kanti; Nagpal, Sukrit – International Education Journal: Comparative Perspectives, 2020
The paper focusses on three aspects of our work with the urban poor: utilization of participatory research methodologies to elicit local knowledge in forms that do not require traditional education; building capacities to create active organized citizenry through catalysing Settlement Improvement Committees, which are representative bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Urban Population, Economically Disadvantaged, Participatory Research
Noguchi, Fumiko – Online Submission, 2010
Since its establishment in 2003, the Japan Council on the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD-J) has paid close attention to informal learning processes in community-based efforts to promote local sustainable development. ESD-J carried out two projects to collect information on and visualise community-based ESD practice: the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Informal Education, Community Programs