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Direct linkBoy van Droffelaar – Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning, 2025
Against the backdrop of increased complexity, volatility, uncertainty and lack of confidence, the call for authentic leadership has become paramount, reflecting the SDG-agenda's focus on economic prosperity, social inclusion, and sustainability. The current issues necessitate more than a mere alteration in leadership competencies. Scholars and…
Descriptors: Outdoor Education, Sustainability, Individual Development, Leadership
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
European Union, 2022
Europe needs more professionals with dedicated skills to drive the transition to a sustainable and circular bioeconomy, a core component of the Green Deal. A study was made to support the development of educational and training content, methods, tools and structures to achieve a mainstreaming of the bioeconomy in education and training. The…
Descriptors: Biotechnology, Job Skills, Labor Market, Economic Development
Selia Neeske van den Boom-Muilenburg; Siebrich de Vries; Klaas van Veen; Cindy Louise Poortman; Kim Schildkamp – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2024
The way in which school leaders implement professional learning communities (PLCs) is important for realizing sustainable school improvement. The assumption is that school leaders act based on their interpretation of the PLC, which is based on their underlying educational beliefs. In this study, we explored these latter aspects by interviewing six…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Sustainability, Beliefs, Secondary Schools
Van Harskamp M.; Knippels M. C. P. J.; Van Joolingen W. R. – Journal of Environmental Education, 2024
Fostering Environmental Citizenship (EC) through science education equips students with competences needed for action-taking on sustainability issues. Quantitative studies show Dutch student EC competences are lacking compared to international averages. This study provides a qualitative view on Dutch 11-15 year old students' EC, providing support…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Science Education, Citizenship
Stathis Grapsas; Judith van de Wetering; Jenna Spitzer; Astrid M. G. Poorthuis; Sander Thomaes – Applied Developmental Science, 2024
The sustainability motive-alignment hypothesis posits that adolescents will be motivated to act sustainably when they view sustainable behavior as aligned with their motives for autonomy and peer status. Based on this hypothesis, we developed the Sustainability Motive-Alignment Scale (SMAS), a brief self-report scale of individual differences in…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Adolescents, Motivation, Measures (Individuals)
Tappel, Anna P. M.; Poortman, Cindy Louise; Schildkamp, Kim; Visscher, Adrie J. – Journal of Professional Capital and Community, 2023
Purpose: Schools struggle with sustaining their educational innovations (Cohen and Mehta, 2017; Askell-Williams and Koh, 2020) and may benefit from concrete and practical guidance (Askell-Williams and Koh, 2020). A dialogue between staff within schools can be a way to promote self-evaluation regarding the innovation. Therefore, a self-evaluation…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Sustainability, Measurement, Secondary Schools
Download full textMirka Martel – Institute of International Education, 2024
The "Spring 2024 Snapshot on International Educational Exchange" continues the commitment of the Institute of International Education (IIE) to map the current state of international educational exchange to and from the United States. The report presents data from 662 U.S. higher education institutions in two sections: (1) current trends…
Descriptors: International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Student Mobility, College Applicants
Nina Lotte Bohm; Renate G. Klaassen; Ellen van Bueren; Perry den Brok – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: In collaboration with their home cities, universities increasingly develop courses in which students investigate urban sustainability challenges. This paper aims to understand how far-reaching the collaboration with urban stakeholders in these courses is and what students are meant to learn from the transdisciplinary pedagogies.…
Descriptors: Universities, Partnerships in Education, Municipalities, Metropolitan Areas
Wang, Yijing; Sommier, Mélodine; Vasques, Ana – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This study aims to examine whether the development of students' sustainability competences is dependent on how courses are delivered at higher education institutions (HEIs). It further investigates to what extent such competences can affect students' belief in the new environmental paradigm (NEP) and pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs).…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Competence, College Students
van den Boom-Muilenburg, Selia Neeske; de Vries, Siebrich; van Veen, Klaas; Poortman, Cindy; Schildkamp, Kim – Educational Research, 2022
Background: The continual improvement of teaching and learning is vital for schools in order to meet the rapid changes in the world around us. Lesson study is considered a valuable professional development approach in that regard. It is focused on teachers collaboratively studying live classroom lessons. Sustaining lesson study, by making its core…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Communities of Practice, Teacher Collaboration, Secondary School Teachers
Saskia M. G. Weijzen; Cassandra Onck; Arjen E. Wals; Valentina C. Tassone; Wietske Kuijer-Siebelink – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
In the light of urgent global sustainability challenges, vocational education is searching for new approaches that are more just and future proof. At least a part of the answer seems to lie in so-called collaborative learning arrangements where students together with societal actors explore sustainability-related challenges. The amount of this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Cooperative Learning, Sustainability
Huijben, Josephina C. C. M.; Van den Beemt, Antoine; Wieczorek, Anna J.; Van Marion, Mieke H. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2022
Society is in strong need to change the way in which energy is produced and consumed. To cope with this complex challenge, integration of knowledge from different disciplines is needed. This paper shows how an interdisciplinary educational approach called networked learning combined with sustainability transition theories can help groups of…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Engineering Education, Sustainability, Energy Conservation
Alarcon-Pereira, Grecia; Rampasso, Izabela Simon; Tapia-Ubeda, Francisco J.; Rojas-Aguilar, Karol; Rojas-Córdova, Carolina – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: Considering the relevance of education for sustainable development (SD) to enhancing engineers' abilities to contribute towards sustainability-related issues, this study aims to help understand the global context of the insertion of SD into engineering education and to provide guidelines to further evolve research and efforts towards…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Engineering Education, Higher Education
Fieke Sluijs; Sabine G. Uijl; Eelco T. C. Vogt; Bert M. Weckhuysen – Journal of Chemical Education, 2024
Sustainability transitions need professionals with specific skills and attitudes that students often do not develop in their regular chemistry education. To foster sustainability change-maker competencies, we suggest augmenting higher education curricula, e.g., chemical degree programs, with transdisciplinary challenge-based learning combined with…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Higher Education, Design, Foreign Countries
