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Mia von Knorring; Hanna Karlsson; Elizabeth Stenwall; Matti Johannes Nikkola; Maria Niemi – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This study aims to analyse student and teaching staff views on how higher education (HE) can contribute to sustainable development, and to provide examples of how a medical university has adopted the sustainable development goals (SDGs) as part of its institutional strategies and practises. Design/methodology/approach: The study is based…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Medical Education, Universities
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Nuria Chaparro-Banegas; Alicia Mas-Tur; Norat Roig-Tierno – Cogent Education, 2024
For many years, technological developments and innovations such as artificial intelligence (AI) has forced the education system to adapt and modernise. This new reality requires people to develop critical thinking (CT) skills to promote sustainable development and provide solutions to contemporary problems. However, traditional learning and…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Artificial Intelligence, Educational Practices, Influence of Technology
Wolfram Schulz; John Ainley; Julian Fraillon; Bruno Losito; Gabriella Agrusti; Valeria Damiani; Tim Friedman – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2023
The IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) investigates the ways in which young people around the world are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens. This report presents the international results from the third cycle of the study (ICCS 2022). Based on data from 24 countries or benchmarking participants from Europe,…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility
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Pedro, Eugénia de Matos; Leitão, João; Alves, Helena – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2020
Purpose: This study aims to identify stakeholders' perceptions of the effects associated with different components of intellectual capital (IC) on the sustainable development (SD) practices of higher education institutions (HEIs). Design/methodology/approach: The empirical approach uses a structural equation model to provide new empirical findings…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Public Colleges
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Skewes, Juan Carlos; Sampaio, Carlos Alberto Cioce; Conway, Frederick J. – Honors in Practice, 2018
Honors programs are rare in Latin America, and in Chile they were unknown before 2003. At the Universidad Austral de Chile, an interdisciplinary group of scholars linked to environmental studies put forward a pilot project for implementing a new experience in higher education. Challenged by an educational environment where (1) apathy and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Honors Curriculum, Higher Education, Educational Practices
Douglas Bourn, Editor – UCL Press, 2023
Young people around the world are calling ever more urgently on policymakers to address today's global challenges of sustainability, structural inequality and social justice. So it is little surprise that learning in a global society, understanding sustainable development and being active global citizens are increasingly popular themes for…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Teaching Methods, Educational Policy, Educational Practices
Schulz, Wolfram, Ed.; Losito, Bruno, Ed.; Carstens, Ralph, Ed.; Fraillon, Julian, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2018
The IEA's International Civic and Citizenship Education Study (ICCS) investigates the ways in which young people are prepared to undertake their roles as citizens in a range of countries in the second decade of the 21st century. ICCS 2016 is the second cycle of a study initiated in 2009. This technical report follows the publication of several…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Comparative Education, Citizen Participation, Citizenship Responsibility
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Helen Kopnina; Frans Meijers – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2014
Purpose: This article aims to explore the challenges posed by the conceptual framework and diversity of practice of education for sustainable development (ESD). The implications of plurality of ESD perspectives and methodological approaches as well variations in ESD practice will be addressed. Critical framework for conceptualizing of ESD which…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Sustainable Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Attitude Measures
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Shaoming Lu; Hui-shu Zhang – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2014
Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to identify learning points and inspirations from two different approaches by examining how education for sustainable development (ESD) initiatives are delivered in the University of X in the UK and Tongji University in China. Design/methodology/approach: Through comparison of case studies, the pros and cons of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Sustainable Development, Case Studies
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Kostoulas-Makrakis, Nelly; Makrakis, Vassilios – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
In this paper, we look at the University of Crete experience to integrate the concept of sustainable development across all its operations. Through a review of current sustainability practices of universities worldwide, this paper has identified a number of principles for developing a sustainable university. These principles are then used as a…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Educational Practices, Educational Change
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Ajake, Uchenna E.; Omori, Anne E.; Essien, Margaret – African Higher Education Review, 2011
The study highlighted the Nigerian Universities' new sustainable development strategies: emphasizes the role that entrepreneurship education can play in both raising awareness among young people about sustainable development and giving them the skills to put sustainable development into practice. Universities place priority on the development of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Educational Practices
Wardlow, George W., Ed.; Johnson, Donald M., Ed. – 1996
The following are among the 42 papers and 8 poster sessions included: "Association of Methodology and Student Learning Style on Student Perception of a Collegiate Leadership Course" (McNulty, Townsend); "Learning Styles and Cognitive Performance of Secondary School Pupils" (Cox, Connors); "Effect of Style-Specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Attitudes, Agricultural Education, American Indians
Kotrlik, Joe W., Ed.; Burnett, Michael F., Ed. – 2001
This document contains 48 papers from a conference on agricultural education research. The following papers are among those included: "Analysis of the Relationships between Computer Experiences, Self-Efficacy, and Knowledge of Undergraduate Students Entering a Land-Grant College of Agriculture" (Donald M. Johnson, Melissa L. Lester,…
Descriptors: Agricultural Colleges, Agricultural Education, Agricultural Occupations, Biotechnology