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Educated professionals of sustainability and the dimensions of practices
- University of Helsinki
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Uusimaa)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the competence-led structuring and understanding of sustainability education by analysing the practices of professional individuals who have completed university education geared ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Redefining action competence: The case of sustainable development
- University of Antwerp
- Karlstad University
The concept of Action Competence (AC) has been interpreted in different ways in various domains of the educational sciences. Given the rising scholarly attention to AC, these diverse interpretations are ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Pathways of organisational transformation for sustainability: a university case-study synthesis presenting competencies for systemic change & rubrics of transformation
- Maastricht University
This research article presents a diagnosis and synthesis of three case studies of universities that have transformed themselves as organisations towards sustainability with signature pathway approaches. These took place in ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Developing Sustainability Competences Through Pedagogical Approaches: Experiences from International Case Studies
- Gävle University College
This book is aimed at developing sustainability competences through pedagogical approaches by comparing 15 case studies from 12 countries in 4 continents (Africa, America, Australia, and Europe) analysing how Sustainable ...
- Posted April 23, 2021
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Key competencies in sustainability in higher education—toward an agreed‑upon reference framework
- Furman University (SC)
- Bellevue College (WA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- University of Michigan (MI)
- University of Vechta
- University of Auckland
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Chatham University (PA)
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- Université Laval (QC)
- Rovira i Virgili University
- UNESCO
Hundreds of sustainability programs have emerged at universities and colleges around the world over the past 2 decades. A prime question for employers, students, educators, and program administrators is what ...
- Posted April 23, 2021
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Green competencies: insights and recommendations from a systematic literature review
- Indian Institute of Management (Jharkhand)
This study conceptualises the construct – green competencies. The concept is in the niche stage and needs further elaboration. Hence, to address the research gap, this study follows the steps proposed ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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Sustainable Literary Competence: Connecting Literature Education to Education for Sustainability
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Ecocritical scholarship has always had pedagogical ambitions. It is commonly assumed that education based on ecocritical readings of literature will change the attitudes and actions of pupils and students and ...
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Education for Advancing the Implementation of the Bioeconomy Goals: An Analysis of Master Study Programmes in Bioeconomy
- Technical University of Crete
- Riga Technical University
Bioeconomy in Europe has become one of the leading courses for sustainable and resource-efficient development. Main aspects of bioeconomy: development of new technologies and processes, development of markets and competitiveness ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Infusing the UN Sustainable Development Goals into a global learning initiative
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- University of North Texas (TX)
- University of South Florida (FL)
The Global Citizens Project (GCP) is a university-wide global learning initiative at the University of South Florida, aimed at enhancing undergraduate students’ global competencies through curricular and co-curricular experiences. The ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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A matter of connection: The 4 Cs of learning in pre-service teacher education for sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Teacher education for sustainability (TEfS) aims to prepare future educators for their role as societal change agents by developing in them specific sustainability competencies. Whereas previous literature has dealt extensively ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Learning processes for interpersonal competence development in project-based sustainability courses – insights from a comparative international study
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
For professional sustainability work, graduates need to be able to work in teams and collaborate with stakeholders; in other words, they need to have developed interpersonal competence. There is growing ...
- Posted Feb. 19, 2021
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Competence Literate but Context Lacking? Investigating the Potential of Study Abroad Programs to Promote Sustainability Competence Acquisition in Students
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
The examination of pedagogies that promote effective sustainability learning has led to vigorous academic discussion, as has research regarding the role of competence-based learning for sustainability. This paper investigates the ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Assessing the Development of Key Competencies in Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Making significant progress on the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) needs change agents equipped with key competencies in sustainability. While thousands of sustainability programs have emerged at various educational ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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University teaching staff and sustainable development: an assessment of competences
- University of Beira Interior
- University of Passo Fundo
- Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
- University of Applied Sciences Zittau/Görlitz
- University of Aveiro
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- University of Belgrade
- University of Malta (Northern Harbor District)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Teaching about matters related to sustainable development requires not only a personal motivation from educators, but also a variety of competences. This paper reports on a multi-country study, which aimed ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Competencies or capabilities in the Australian higher education landscape and its implications for the development and delivery of sustainability education
- RMIT University
The question of how to embed transformative change through the implementation of sustainability principles in our education systems has become increasingly important as complex situations, like pandemics and climate change ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Is climate change in the curriculum? An analysis of Australian urban planning degrees
- University of Melbourne (Victoria)
The profession of urban planning contributes to the design and spatial arrangement of cities, and has been recognized as a key potential facilitator of action on climate change. Yet, there ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Mindfulness in education for sustainable development to nurture socioemotional competencies: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Comillas Universidad Pontificia (Madrid)
Adhering to the basic principles of transformative learning in education for sustainable development, socioemotional competencies are fundamental for the promotion of sustainability; however, they are difficult to nurture. There is ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Self-consciousness competence as driver of innovation and environmental commitment in higher education students
- ESERP Business School
- Pompeu Fabra University
Purpose The purpose of this research is to analyse the relationship between entrepreneurial skills and innovation commitment and entrepreneurial skills and environmental commitment as drivers of awareness on sustainable development ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Engendering sustainable development competencies in higher education: The case of Egypt
- Zayed University
- Cairo University
Higher Education Institutions are a crucial player in achieving the international 2030 sustainable development agenda on the national levels. This study examines the role that Cairo University plays in promoting ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Developing Curriculum Recommendations for Environmental Health in Nursing
- Duquesne University (PA)
- Naugatuck Valley Community College (CT)
- Prince George's Community College (MD)
- University of California, San Francisco (CA)
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
- Villanova University (PA)
In 2010, the American Nurses Association (ANA) added an environmental health standard to the ANA Scope and Standards of Practice requiring that nurses implement environmental health strategies in nursing practice ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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A framework for mapping sustainability within tertiary curriculum
- UNSW Sydney (NSW)
Purpose Sustainability within tertiary curriculum is hard to measure and often perceived to be illusive in nature. Existing higher education sustainability assessment tools rarely focus on the curriculum. This paper ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Engineering education and the development of competencies for sustainability
- Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
- University of Campinas
- Universidade Federal Fluminense
Purpose This paper aims to deal with the skills for sustainable development in engineering courses. The main objective is to identify which competences should be developed in these courses to ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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Designing and Assessing Learning Outcomes: A Framework for Co-Curricular Sustainability Programs
- Portland State University (OR)
In recent years, Co-Curricular Sustainability Programs (CoCSPs) have been established at many higher education institutions. However, few such programs have developed learning outcomes or assessment processes to measure the types ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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From Linear Industrial Structures to Living Systems: A Design Shift in Education for Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
If sustainability is to be an integral part of rethinking education organization, it is necessary to redesign mental models that shape present curricular structures. Assumptions underlying the design of most ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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Toward an Environmentally Sustainable Academic Enterprise: An AACN Guide for Nursing Education
- Adelphi University (NY)
- Emory University (GA)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (MD)
- Washington State University, Spokane (WA)
In Fall 2009, the AACN Deans/Directors passed a motion in support of AACN taking a leadership role on issues addressing environmental sustainability in nursing education. The following spring the ...
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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Sustainable engineering master module – insights from three cohorts of European engineering team
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology
- Polytechnic University of Milan
- Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin)
- Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology (Berlin)
- Warsaw University of Technology
Mobility and transnational migration are current social developments among the population of the European Union. These developments in both society-at-large and companies, linked to the challenges of sustainability, lead to ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Does higher education prepare students to bridge divides in today’s democracy?
- Western Washington University (WA)
Recent political events serve as a reminder that American society comprises groups with divergent visions for the future and mutually incompatible ideas of how to achieve those futures. Despite this ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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The Role of Universities in Sustainability-Oriented Competencies Development: Insights from an Empirical Study on Polish Universities
- Cracow University of Economics/Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie (UEK) (Kraków)
The growing importance of sustainable development constitutes a challenging trend for education. Universities create study programs and organize extracurricular activities in order to prepare future generations of professionals as well ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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A framework for teaching socio-environmental problem-solving
- Georgetown University (DC)
- James Madison University (VA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- North Dakota State University (ND)
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) (MD)
The urgent environmental challenges we now face, from climate change to biodiversity loss, involve people and the planet, the social, and the environmental. Teaching students to become effective socio-environmental problem-solvers ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Rethinking Teacher Training According to 21st Century Competences
- Universitatea Transilvania din Brasov (Brașov)
One of the demands of our educational system is the orientantion towards sustenability. To prepare people for future we need teachers who are able to develop the 21stcentury competences – the ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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A Design-Based Learning Approach for Fostering Sustainability Competency in Engineering Education
- Hunan City University (Hunan)
This paper provides and illustrates a design-based learning (DBL) approach for fostering individual sustainability competency in engineering education. We performed two studies with engineering students in typical educational activities. The ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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The relationship between moral competences and sustainable consumption among higher education students
- NEOMA Business School (Rouen)
- Comillas Universidad Pontificia (Madrid)
Despite claims of the importance of students developing moral competences in the context of Education for Sustainable Consumption, the literature lacks a systematic perspective that empirically assesses the association between ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Making Future Teachers More Aware of Issues Related to Sustainability: An Assessment of Best Practices
- Universidad de Granada
The aim of the present research was to uncover the opinions of future teachers about whether the formative knowledge of education for sustainability received in seminars during their practicums improved ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Skills and knowledge management in higher education: how service learning can contribute to social entrepreneurial competence development
- University of Vechta
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Montpellier Business School (Montpellier)
- ESCE International Business School/École Supérieure du Commerce Extérieur
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elaborate on how service learning approaches are able to foster social entrepreneurship competences. The aim of the paper is to formulate a ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Project-Based Learning in a Transinstitutional Research Setting: Case Study on the Development of Sustainable Food Products
- University of Graz
- FH JOANNEUM University of Applied Sciences (Steiermark)
Project-based learning (PBL) has been thoroughly integrated in university sustainable development curricula, but has not been well-established in curricula used at pre-university educational levels. Integrating real-world settings into the teaching ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Engineers Changing the World: Education for Sustainability in Romanian Technical Universities—An Empirical Web-Based Content Analysis
- Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
- Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (Iași)
- University Politehnica of Bucharest
- Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca (Cluj)
Without a doubt, we are living in interesting times, characterized by both continuous economic development and improved standard of living, but also uncertainty, increased pollution, and environmental degradation, which means ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Perception of sustainability competencies amongst Spanish pre-service secondary school teachers
- Universidad Camilo José Cela (Madrid)
This paper aims to present the results from a questionnaire distributed to a group of Spanish postgraduate teacher students pursuing a Master’s Degree in Secondary School Education. The aims ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Sustainability science in education: analysis of master’s programmes’ curricula
- University of Helsinki
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Uusimaa)
Sustainability science is an emerging, free-standing scientific discipline. It has introduced a new approach to both sustainability research and educational programmes, while evoking novel perspectives to stronger societal contextualization. Among ...
- Posted May 12, 2020
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Bringing an entrepreneurial focus to sustainability education: A teaching framework based on content analysis
- Nord University
- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) - Campus Viamão (RS)
Research on sustainability education has neglected to integrate entrepreneurial skills into other relevant competences such as foresight, complex problem-solving, and interdisciplinarity. Previous research highlights possible convergences between sustainability education and ...
- Posted May 12, 2020
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Assessment of Competences in Sustainability Management: Analyses to the Construct Dimensionality
- University of Göttingen
- DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education/DIPF Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation (Darmstadt)
The paper discusses an examination of the dimensions of a competence model for sustainability management. A central assumption is that the dimensions of the competence model differ according to knowledge ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Building Leadership Competencies for the SDGs through Community/University Experiential Learning
- University of Calgary (AB)
- The Strongest Oak Foundation (AB)
This research provides a case study of how experiential learning opportunities provided by a Master of Science program in Sustainable Energy Development (SEDV) helped to achieve four Sustainable Development Goals ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Transactional learning and sustainability co-creation in a university – business collaboration
- University of Helsinki
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Uusimaa)
Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the learning outcomes of the project-based learning in a Master Class programme on sustainability carried out in collaboration by the University ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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The assessment of graduate sustainability attributes in the workplace: Potential advantages of using the theory of planned behaviour (TPB)
- RMIT University
Sustainability in higher education aims to educate learners, as both citizens and future professionals, to build capacity to bring about a more sustainable future. As such, sustainability education can be ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Sustainability and human competences: a systematic literature review
- University of São Paulo
- Universidade Federal do Paraná (PR)
- Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Paraná)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify and discuss human competences required for sustainability management in organisations.
Design/methodology/approach The research is based on a systematic review ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Developing Students’ Action Competence for a Sustainable Future: A Review of Educational Research
- National Taiwan Normal University
- Taichung Municipal Dali High School (Taichung County)
The goal of education for sustainable development is to develop future citizens who can make informed decision and take responsible action to solve the problem. The concept of action competence ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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The seven sustainability competences according to the RESFIA+D Model. Part B: practical experiences
- Miami Dade College (FL)
- Roorda Sustainability
Aim: In a previous article within this same journal, called “The Seven Sustainability Competences according to the RESFIA+D Model. Part A: Conceptual background”, the origins, structure and validation were ...
- Posted May 4, 2020
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The seven sustainability competences according to the RESFIA+D Model. Part A: conceptual background
- Miami Dade College (FL)
- Roorda Sustainability
Aim: The article describes the origins, structure and validation of a model for professional competences for sustainable development, called RESFIA+D. The model provides an assessment and policy instrument that ...
- Posted May 4, 2020
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Assessment of sustainability competencies: a literature review and future pathways for ESD research and practice
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Universidad Camilo José Cela (Madrid)
Aim: This paper aims at reviewing existing theoretical frameworks in sustainability competencies and identifying suitable evaluation strategies and instruments for sustainability competencies assessment in the context of Education for Sustainable ...
- Posted May 4, 2020
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Analysis of the presence of sustainability in Higher Education Degrees of the Spanish university system
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- Universidad de Córdoba
- Universidad de Salamanca
- Universidad de Sevilla
This paper analyzes the extent to which sustainability is present in the curricula of the 16 Education Degree programs belonging to the EDINSOST project: 6 Early Childhood Education Degrees, 7 ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Exploring Undergraduate Attainment of Sustainability Competencies
- Tufts University (MA)
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Are students graduating from sustainability education programs with the competencies that will enable them to act for sustainability? This case study 1.) explores the degree to which a project-based capstone ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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