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Direct linkDerek Hall – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the extent and characteristics of Canadian university reporting of and policy regarding greenhouse gas emissions from air travel. It identifies current approaches' details and limits and recommends improvements. Design/methodology/approach: The study developed questions and considerations for analysing reporting…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Travel, Air Transportation
Shannon Ruzgys; Gary J. Pickering – Environmental Education Research, 2025
We sought to gain a more holistic understanding of young adults' knowledge and perceptions around sustainable diets using a mixed methods online survey of 500 young adults (18-25 yrs.). Variables measured included food choice motivators (6-point importance scale), knowledge (ranking of efficacy of sustainable dietary behaviours), and several…
Descriptors: Eating Habits, Young Adults, Knowledge Level, Attitudes
Robinson, John; Alhakim, Andi Darell; Ma, Grace; Alam, Monisha; Brando, Fernanda da Rocha; Braune, Manfred; Brown, Michelle; Côté, Nicolas; Espinosa, Denise Crocce Romano; Garza, Ana Karen; Gorman, David; Hajer, Maarten; Madden, John; Melnick, Rob; Metras, John; Newman, Julie; Patel, Rutu; Raven, Rob; Sergienko, Kenneth; Smith, Victoria; Tariq, Hoor; van der Lem, Lysanne; Wong, Christina Nga Jing; Wiek, Arnim – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to explore barriers and pathways to a whole-institution governance of sustainability within the working structures of universities. Design/methodology/approach: This paper draws on multi-year interviews and hierarchical structure analysis of ten universities in Canada, the USA, Australia, Hong Kong, South Africa, Brazil,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Governance, Barriers, Universities
Kelly-Ann Macalpine; Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2024
The earth is drowning in plastic waste. Yet, as the plastic waste crisis grows exponentially, responses to excess waste remain stuck around containment and management processes. These approaches fail to notice that plastics know no boundaries. We now encounter plastic rocks, plastic water, plastic bodies, plastic worlds spilling into oceans and…
Descriptors: Plastics, Early Childhood Education, Conservation (Environment), Ecology
Ronda Jane Wood – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Since the 1970s, research has shown negative trends in teachers delivering inconsistent (uncoordinated) instructional guidance and inaccurate (uncalibrated) grading outcomes among medical and dental students, which were harmful teaching practices directly impeding student learning progressions. The problem addressed by this study was that many…
Descriptors: Dentistry, Hygiene, Accreditation (Institutions), Sustainability
Porporato, Marcela; Samuels-Jones, Tameka – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to use the case of York University in Canada to analyze the connection between University Social Responsibility and voluntary disclosure. The authors examine whether the university's voluntary air emissions disclosure is performative by exploring whether York University's espoused commitment to its community…
Descriptors: Pollution, Social Responsibility, Measurement, Models
James M. Crick; Dave Crick – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: The objective of this instrumental case study is to investigate issues impacting capability development/transformation with respect to student entrepreneurs' aspirations to create a viable, evolving business model for their start-ups, namely, that are underpinned by goals featuring the "triple bottom line". That is, instead of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Entrepreneurship, Case Studies
Paul Elliott; Hillary Inwood; Yovita Gwekwerere – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
Environmental and Sustainability Education (ESE) has been a neglected area in teacher education despite the potential it offers for stimulating societal change via the school system. Our work in recent years to promote this aspect of teacher education in Canada led us to reflect on our experiences, the challenges we have faced, and the lessons…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Environmental Education, Sustainability, Preservice Teacher Education
Hyne-Ju Huizenga – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Private higher education institutions have been a focus of scholars because of their increasing closures due to the lack of financial sustainability. Researchers have demonstrated these closures limit society's choices in higher education and have yet been able to explore the perceptions of leaders of a small private university in Canada regarding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Private Colleges, Sustainability, Financial Problems
Download full textDennis Massie; Chela Scott Weber; Mercy Procaccini; Brian Lavoie – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2023
Art research collections continue to be impacted by the lingering effects of economic uncertainty and the global COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in reduced or stagnant budgets and staffing cuts. These impacts have coincided with a period of institutional reflection and examination of the fundamental role of cultural heritage institutions in…
Descriptors: Art, Case Studies, Cooperation, Sustainability
Savannah Stuart; Ryan Plummer; Gillian Dale; Garrett Hutson – Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2024
The devastating impact of COVID-19 on the mental health and well-being of individuals has led researchers to increasingly consider the importance of people-place interactions as drivers of positive mental health. This study explores people-place relationships with natural areas through the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on subjective well-being and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Mental Health, Well Being, Foreign Countries
McKenzie, Marcia; Wilson, Alex – Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 2023
This paper engages narratives from Tess Lea's (2020) book 'Wild Policy' for how they help consider the messy or 'wild' nature of global policy interventions on sustainability, including in its latest formation as the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We do so alongside data from research on education in the territory of Nunavut, as well as…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Educational Policy, Sustainable Development, Canada Natives
Karrow, Douglas D.; Fazio, Xavier; Zandvliet, David – Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 2022
The purpose of this article is to examine how signifiers and empty signifiers may contribute to the mainstreaming of environmental and sustainability education in teacher education. We argue that the moniker of environmental and sustainability education is an empty signifier in that it fails to convey meaning about what it signifies. Tracing the…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Teacher Education, Discourse Analysis
Kimberly M. Post – ProQuest LLC, 2024
In the nascent field of human-nature relational values, there is a growing body of literature suggesting their transformative potential in sustainability education. The ability to analytically distinguish relational values from other valuations can both inform pedagogical approaches and help to identify how people understand and value their…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Environmental Education, Values, Test Construction
Sarah Ann Stokes – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Open educational resources (OER) are digital and non-digital resources for teaching, learning, and research that are available for no cost and licensed with various open licenses, permitting their widespread modification and use. While these resources afford benefits to post-secondary students in terms of reduced cost, ease of access, and…
Descriptors: Open Educational Resources, Sustainability, Foreign Countries, Barriers
