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Roberta Piazza; Giovanni Castiglione; Jose Roberto Guevara – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2025
University-based curriculum development often involves adding new content. This 'just add' approach has also been applied to integrating the UN SDGs into curricula, reducing them to a checklist rather than embracing their holistic and transformative aims. This is particularly concerning for SDG 4 and SDG 4.7, which require deep, cross-cutting…
Descriptors: Global Approach, College Curriculum, Curriculum Development, Sustainable Development
Alba Castellsagué; Peter Szyszlo – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Considering the critical role of higher education institutions in the advancement of the 2030 Agenda, this paper aims to analyse the incorporation of the gender perspective (Sustainable Development Goal 5) in the University Cooperation for International Development. Design/methodology/approach: Following a qualitative methodological…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Global Approach, Gender Issues
Alcántara-Rubio, Lucía; Valderrama-Hernández, Rocío; Solís-Espallargas, Carmen; Ruiz-Morales, Jorge – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Currently, in the field of Sustainable Development (SD), one of the most significant debates is the necessary incorporation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in education and, specifically, in higher education institutions (HEIs). In the process of truly integrating the SDGs in HEIs, it is necessary to know and identify what is already…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Universities, Global Approach, Educational Research
Kira Adams; Sachiko Nakano – IAFOR Journal of Education, 2024
English education in Japan has traditionally focused on grammar over communication, and the country has struggled to compete internationally in terms of English proficiency scores. As the country works toward the internationalization of higher education, improving English education is an important issue. One potential solution is the use of topics…
Descriptors: Student Interests, Student Motivation, English (Second Language), Sustainable Development
Uleanya, Chinaza – Africa Education Review, 2022
University education is envisaged to contribute to and enhance sustainable development in society. Hence there is a desire for quality and effectiveness in the tertiary education system for which huge amounts of money are budgeted annually. However, the quality and effectiveness of rural university education with regard to aiding sustainable…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Sustainable Development, Foreign Countries, Educational Quality
Calderon, Angel – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2023
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have long embraced a path towards sustainability and engaged in supporting sustainable development. The adoption of the sustainability development goals has forced HEIs to assess how they engage with these goals and how they address societal challenges head on. However, the emergence of sustainability rankings…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Institutional Evaluation, Sustainable Development, Objectives
Amiano Bonatxea, Iratxe; Gutiérrez-Goiria, Jorge; Vazquez-De Francisco, Maria Jose; Sianes, Antonio – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Recognising the importance of universities in the achievement of social and global objectives, this paper aims to study the relevance of the global reporting initiative (GRI) methodology for reporting University Social Responsibility (USR) activities, taking into account the specificity of higher education institutions (HEI).…
Descriptors: Social Responsibility, Universities, Standards, Higher Education
Improving Engagement of Interns and Employers with the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals
Ivkovic, Shabnam Surjitsingh; McRae, Norah – International Journal of Work-Integrated Learning, 2021
There is growing focus on graduating global citizens who can advocate for and operationalize sustainable futures by advancing the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With the high volume of internships the University of Waterloo facilitates, there was need to better understand how these internships might be contributing to the…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Foreign Countries, Employers, Sustainable Development
Kistner, Holly; Dautremont, Julian; Urbanski, Monika – Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a series of ambitious and interconnected global targets to end poverty and hunger, advance education, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity by 2030 through peace, justice and partnerships. While the SDGs were designed for nation-states, colleges and universities…
Descriptors: Sustainability, International Organizations, Sustainable Development, Objectives
Saudelli, Mary Gene; Niemczyk, Ewelina K. – Perspectives in Education, 2022
Universities can play a key role in contributing to a sustainable future for our planet and its inhabitants. In times of constant changes, there is a growing urgency to reflect on the vision of universities as well as their respective practices and projects that can promote the creation of sustainable societies. As is evident in scholarly…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Universities, Foreign Countries, Social Problems
Sharon Stein – About Campus, 2024
Many students have expressed that they feel highly distressed by the state of the world they are inheriting. Extreme weather and wildfires around the globe, and increasingly sobering assessments about projected futures by researchers, activists, and global leaders have led to a growing consensus that the world is at a turning point when it comes…
Descriptors: Climate, College Students, Universities, Environmental Education
Chankseliani, Maia; Qoraboyev, Ikboljon; Gimranova, Dilbar – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Higher education offers the potential to support glonacal (global, national, and local) development. This study presents new empirical and conceptual insights into the ways in which higher education can help to achieve and exceed the outcomes enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals. Open-ended online surveys were used to learn how academics…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Ariunaa Enkhtur; Mahboubeh Rakhshandehroo – Higher Education Quarterly, 2025
Drawing on the concept of the Production of Space this article examines how sustainable development agenda was localised--in design, operation and students' lived experiences--in two international education programmes at two universities in Japan. We analysed relevant programme documents, interviews with faculty members, students' reflective…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Private Colleges, Foreign Countries, Universities
Solís, Patricia; Rajagopalan, Sushil; Villa, Lily; Mohiuddin, Maliha Binte; Boateng, Ebenezer; Wavamunno Nakacwa, Stellamaris; Peña Valencia, María Fernanda – Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2022
Emerging youth movements to promote issues reflected in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are celebrated as critical for the future attainment of societal aims. We explore the possibility for institutions of higher education to serve as an intentional "third space" to engender the creation and mobilization of…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Geography Instruction, Mentors, Case Studies
Ossiannilsson, Ebba – Asian Journal of Distance Education, 2018
Ecologies of openness--inclusion, intersections, and interstices--raises questions about the concepts of open, openness, opened, and opening, throughout educational contexts. The rise of openness and open pedagogy has impacts on educational paradigm shifts and university reforms in open and flexible learning. The focus of this article is to…
Descriptors: Open Education, Open Educational Resources, Educational Change, Educational Trends