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Fanli Jia; Wan Wang – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Research in environmental education adopts a broad concept of environmental literacy, recognizing the multifaceted nature that encompasses cognitive, affective, and behavioral components. However, minimal research has examined how these components interact with each other across various cities. The present study aims to fill this gap by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
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Alana Guadagnin; Jandir Pauli; Juliane Ruffatto; Leila Dal Moro – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: For sustainable strategies to be developed in business schools, it is essential to understand which sustainability drivers and barriers are identified by academic managers and coordinators in the implementation of sustainable practices. In this scenario, the study aims to understand the barriers and possible drivers for the implementation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Business Schools, Sustainability, Administrators
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Gomes, Luciana Paulo; Caetano, Marcelo Oliveira; Brand, Susana Margarida; Dai-Prá, Léa Beatriz; Pereira, Brenda Natalia – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to present the environmental management system implemented at UNISINOS and demonstrate some of the main results obtained in more than 15 years carrying out the environmental management of the campuses in São Leopoldo and Porto Alegre. The focus is on the main environmental impacts: electricity consumption, water…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Energy, Water, Sanitation
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Ali Faghani; Masoud Bijani; Naser Valizadeh – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Many environmental problems are due to the unfavorable environmental intentions and cultural-behavioral weaknesses in the relationship between man and nature. This study aims to adopt an environmental psychological perspective to green intention (GI) and green behavior (GB) of agricultural students; to this end, protection motivation…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
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Feng Xiong; Ru-Xin Liu; Xiao-Xuan Fan; Min Zhang; Yuan She; Wei-Qing Cao; Chao Chen; Tong-Mei Ding; Shu-Yu Zhang – Journal of Chemical Education, 2023
The demand for sustainable synthetic methods in modern industry has been increasing rapidly due to the requirements of environmental protection and energy conservation, which has brought organic electrochemical synthesis to the forefront nowadays. Here, a two-part laboratory experiment has been designed to train undergraduates in comprehending and…
Descriptors: Organic Chemistry, Science Instruction, Undergraduate Students, Sustainability
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Frans Kruger – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
For Bernard Stiegler 'the question of philosophy is first of all that of action' (p.7). By extending this statement to philosophy of education, I consider the possibilities of action in education in responding to the conditions of the contemporary. These conditions, which have come to be discussed and dissected with reference to such terms as…
Descriptors: Educational Philosophy, Educational Change, Sustainable Development, Technological Advancement
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Nieblas-Ortiz, Efrain C.; Arcos-Vega, José L.; Sevilla-García, Juan J. – Higher Education Studies, 2017
Without depreciating the importance of environmental regulations directed to university environmental managements systems in this country, nowadays, the instruments of international importance like the Sustainable Development Goals or ONU's 2030 Agenda; as well as those of domestic nature, like sustainability indicators proposed by the Mexican…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Environmental Influences
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Margarita Pacis; Robert VanWynsberghe – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to posit that a key sustainability tool can help provide a needed guide for the many forms of new curricula for academic, public and professional learning communities. The authors demonstrate that key sustainability competency (KSC) research can highlight and provide an array of learning outcomes that can be…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Competence, Instructional Design, Educational Objectives
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Leal Filho, Walter; Brandli, Luciana Londero; Becker, Deisi; Skanavis, Constantina; Kounani, Aristea; Sardi, Chrysoula; Papaioannidou, Dimitra; Paço, Arminda; Azeiteiro, Ulisses; de Sousa, Luiza Olim; Raath, Schalk; Pretorius, Rudi Wessel; Shiel, Christine; Vargas, Valeria; Trencher, Gregory; Marans, Robert W. – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2018
Purpose: There is a widely held belief that sustainable development (SD) policies are essential for universities to successfully engage in matters related to sustainability, and are an indicator of the extent to which they are active in this field. This paper aims to examine the evidence which currently exists to support this assumption. It…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Universities, School Policy
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Valackiene, Asta; Kairiene, Brigita – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2019
While many studies explain the contributions of economics and environmental protection to social sustainability, and discuss how to achieve sustainable development (SD) through education, less is known about change processes in order to ensure the sustainable development at school. The authors emphasize that as active members of the school…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Case Studies, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries
De Andrade, Daniel Fonseca; Sorrentino, Marcos – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2014
Colonizing processes take many forms. Although they are generally related to the use of force, they may also happen through subtler means such as education, and subconsciously, whenever educational proposals are designed to suit a wide variety of contexts. This essay suggests that environmental pedagogies should be based on a dialogical mindset…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Interpersonal Communication, Land Settlement
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Di Chiro, Giovanna – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2014
One thing about which there is widespread consensus is that the earth and its inhabitants are in social and environmental peril. This is where the consensus ends, however, for there is equally widespread disagreement as to the nature and causes of the problems (more social or more environmental), the severity of the problems (for whom are they…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Social Influences, Cultural Influences
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Connell, Sharon; Fien, John; Sykes, Helen; Yencken, David – Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 2014
There is a paucity of research in Australia on the nature of young people's attitudes, knowledge and actions. This paper reports on the findings from one such study of Australian high school students. The research was based on a survey of 5,688 students form Melbourne and Brisbane. These young people identified protection of the environment as the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Beliefs, Adolescent Attitudes, High School Students
Gundogan, M. Banu; Eby, Gulsun – Online Submission, 2012
This paper aims to draw attention to the sustainability of distance learning in terms of the design process based on learner characteristics and technology usage. Distance learning has become a cyberized system owing its presence to developments in digital technologies. Technological developments solve some immediate problems but also have the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Sustainable Development, Educational Policy
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Warner, Benjamin P.; Elser, Monica – Journal of Environmental Education, 2015
We provide an overview of research in sustainability education. We argue that the interconnectedness of environmental sustainability programs at K-12 schools is one metric by which sustainability education can be conceptualized. We present a new measure of whole-school sustainability, or "interconnectedness," and then use it to compare…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Effective Schools Research, Environmental Education, School Surveys
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