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Implementing Action Competence Teaching Model as a Framework for Achieving Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from Students
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Xiaojing Xing; Chinaza Solomon Ironsi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the potential of implementing an action competence teaching model as a framework for achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) in higher education. The paper seeks to draw insights from the students on the potential of this teaching model. Design/methodology/approach: The study adopted a quantitative…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Sustainable Development, Objectives, Student Attitudes
Systems Literacy: Towards a Conspectus and Model for Environmental and Sustainability Education
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Sinem Demirci; Alan Reid; Gaye Teksöz; Elvan Sahin – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Through Target 4.7 of SDG4 on 'quality education', Agenda 2030 invites governments to take ownership of progress towards ensuring 'Education for Sustainable Development' (ESD) becomes embedded into all levels of education. However, conceptual analysis suggests an ongoing blindspot related to the significance of systems literacy in fostering the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Sustainable Development, Curriculum Development, Systems Development
Achieving Sustainability in Learning and Teaching Initiatives
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Brew, Angela; Cahir, Jayde – International Journal for Academic Development, 2014
Universities have a long history of change in learning and teaching to suit various government initiatives and institutional priorities. Academic developers now are frequently required to address strategic learning and teaching priorities. This paper asks how, in such a context, academic developers can ensure that work they do in relation to one…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Teaching Methods, Teaching Models, Learning Strategies
Climate Change: A "Green" Approach to Teaching Contemporary Germany
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Melin, Charlotte – Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, 2013
This article describes a newly designed upper division German language course, "Contemporary Germany: Food, Energy Politics," and two sampling methods of assessment for measuring parallel gains in German skills and sustainable development (SD) thinking. Second Language Acquisition (SLA) informed course design, key assignments, and…
Descriptors: German, Program Descriptions, Curriculum Design, Sustainable Development
Bridging the Gap: On Easing the Transition from Arab Secondary to Western Third Level Learning
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Hayes, Aneta; Holden-Rachiotis, Caroline; Kavanagh, Brendan; Otoom, Sameer – Evaluation & Research in Education, 2011
Learning and achievement issues among Foundation Year (FY) students at the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) Bahrain have been responded to by the Language and Culture Unit to address the educational problems that have arisen as a direct consequence of the differences in skills students have on leaving secondary school and the skills that are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Western Civilization, Medical Students
Civic Engagement through Civic Agriculture: Using Food to Link Classroom and Community
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Wright, D. Wynne – Teaching Sociology, 2006
The maximization of productivity and labor efficiency has been a hallmark of the American agriculture and food system. The result of these twin processes is an industrial, concentrated, and consolidated provisioning system that produces cheap and plentiful food. Many view this model as a panacea for providing food to a modern industrial workforce,…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Rural Areas, Agriculture, Sustainable Development