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How to increase students' motivation to engage in university initiatives towards environmental sustainability
- Universitat de València
- Universidad Tecnica del Norte
Nowadays, it is of vital importance to make students aware of the problems that can be generated by the deterioration of the environment. The purpose of this study is to ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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What are the motivations for and obstacles to disclosing voluntary sustainability information by U.S. universities in STARS reports?
- Johns Hopkins University (MD)
- Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden)
This study investigates voluntary sustainability reporting by U.S. universities. Using a structural equation modeling approach and Poisson regression, this analysis explores the relevant motivations for and obstacles in disclosing ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Stimulating student’s pro-environmental behavior in higher education institutions: an ability–motivation–opportunity perspective
- University of Science and Technology of China
- Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology
- Women University Swabi
- Hefei University of Technology
The slow and inadequate environmental performance of higher education institutions is attracting the consideration of researchers toward a behavioral change of teachers and students rather than just concentrating on learning ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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The effect of social innovation education on sustainability learning outcomes: the roles of intrinsic learning motivation and prosocial motivation
- Tianjin University
The purpose of this study is to reveal the influence mechanism of social innovation education (SIE) on sustainability learning outcomes and analyze the roles of intrinsic learning motivation and prosocial ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Developing a Framework for Understanding the Personal Motivations of Sustainability Leaders
- University of Surrey
- Ateneo de Manila University
This study explores the initial and sustaining motivations that drive leaders to pursue sustainability as a profession or vocation. Exploratory interviews were conducted with 16 sustainability leaders in the Philippines ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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What Motivates Change Agents and Supports Their Resilience in the Face of Adversity?
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Yale University (CT)
One of the key features that distinguishes sustainability from other fields is its normative aspect. Sustainability is about creating a better world starting today based on a just vision of ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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What Motivates Students to Be Sustainability Change Agents in the Face of Adversity?
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The world faces significant challenges that require transformative changes facilitated by Sustainability Change Agents (SCAs). Universities around the world have explicitly taken up the responsibility of developing in students the ...
- Posted Oct. 29, 2021
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Integration of a sustainability-oriented socio-scientific issue into the general chemistry curriculum: Examining the effects on student motivation and self-efficacy
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- Universität Bremen
This study evaluates the effects of integrating the socio-scientific issue of phosphate sustainability into a large enrollment general chemistry course. The integration was based on the use of a digital ...
- Posted April 17, 2020
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Campus Sustainability: Using Planned Behavior Theory to Assess Student's Pro-Environmental Behavior
- Missouri State University (MO)
Over the few past decades, sustainability has increased in importance both in policymaking and academic discourse. A concern that economic progress and overconsumption and accumulation of waste operate against principles ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Understanding Climate Motivators, Barriers, and Required Resources for Action
- Mohawk College (ON)
Post-secondary institutions are viewed as leaders in their communities; this includes action on climate change to ensure a prosperous future for their graduates filled with opportunities for success. Though high ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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How to motivate students to use green chemistry approaches in everyday research work: Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
- Lomonosov Moscow State University
Teaching green chemistry to chemistry students is necessary in order to raise up a new generation of responsible scientists, highly motivated to implement sustainable development of the human race. This ...
- Posted May 10, 2019
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Changes in Pre-Service Teachers’ Values, Sense of Agency, Motivation and Consumption Practices: A Case Study of an Education for Sustainability Course
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Teacher education has a critical role to play as people around the world strive to reach the Sustainable Development goals. Education for sustainability (EfS) aims to motivate and prepare educators ...
- Posted March 1, 2019
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar – Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
- AASHE (MA)
Indigenous educator Gregory Cajete articulates the motivations and questions that drive the presenter’s research. For Cajete, effective education entails ‘finding heart,’ an active process within and beyond the person ...
- Posted Sept. 14, 2017
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University of California Climate Lab, Video Series Episode One: Why humans are so bad at thinking about climate change
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
This is the first episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the ...
- Posted April 24, 2017
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Inspiration and Hope for Campus Sustainability Change Agents
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Harvard University (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
You know those feelings you get after attending the AASHE annual conference and other sustainability conferences – inspiration, motivation, a sense of belonging, perhaps even giddy to return to campus to ...
- Posted Dec. 15, 2016
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A Qualitative Study of Motivation and Influences for Academic Green Building Developments in Australian Universities
- Macquarie University (NSW)
- La Trobe University (Victoria)
Green building projects have been adopted by many universities in Australia as part of their renovation and expansion. In order to investigate the motivations of academic decision makers to invest ...
- Posted July 21, 2016
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Finding Heart: Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
In his landmark book Native Science (2000), indigenous educator Gregory Cajete eloquently articulates the motivations and questions that drive this study. For Cajete, effective education of our time entails “finding ...
- Posted June 2, 2016
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