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Introduction
AASHE’s publications library is the leading repository of reports, journal articles, books, and student research on sustainability in higher education. Certain publication types are entered in the annual AASHE Awards Program.
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Investigating undergraduate student learning experiences using the good practice learning and teaching for sustainability education (GPLTSE) framework
- RMIT University
Sustainability curriculum in higher education is a crucial lever for building capabilities and knowledge for graduates to address the interconnected social, ecological and economic challenges of the 21st century in …
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Higher Education Interdisciplinarity: Addressing the Complexity of Sustainable Energies and the Green Economy
- Sapienza Università di Roma
Universities play a strategic role towards a sustainable future, as they address the complex scientific research on green transition and enable students from diverse backgrounds to acquire different skills, integrate …
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Towards Sustainable Development through Higher Education Quality Assurance
- Quality Assurance Agency For Higher Education (--None--)
- Dnipro University of Technology
This study aims to identify the role of higher education quality assurance in achieving sustainable development goals. To support this aim, the following objectives were formulated: to discuss and summarize …
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Early career teacher educators' dispositions toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues: a case from teachers colleges in Turkey
- Columbia University (NY)
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi
This study aims to investigate the dispositions of early career teacher educators as young academics toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues. Through their interpretations, concerns, awareness and ownership of …
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Sustainable management education: insights from indigenous wisdom of Bhartiya (Indian) Gurukul philosophy
- OP Jindal Global University (Haryana)
The purpose of the paper is to highlight the phenomenon of sustainable management education and its facilitating factors by exploring the indigenous wisdom of Bhartiya (Indian) Gurukul philosophy. The paper …
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Greening on-campus housing: blending commercial and higher education contexts
- Virginia Tech (VA)
With the United States higher education sector representing over five billion square feet and expending over six billion dollars annually on energy costs, the higher education institution has an opportunity …
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How do higher education institutions promote sustainable development? A literature review
- Universidade do Sul de Santa Catarina
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have a fundamental role in transforming societies aimed at a more sustainable future. Through knowledge creation and dissemination, research, education and outreach, institutions of higher education …
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Using the theory of planned behavior to understand the students’ pro-environmental behavior: a case-study in a Portuguese HEI
- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (Coimbra)
Through the application of the theory of planned behavior (TPB), this study aims to explore the main determinants of higher education students’ pro-environmental behavior.
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Sustainable Development Goals as a Framework for Postgraduate Future Research Following COVID-19 Pandemic: A New Norm for Developing Countries
- Northwest University (WA)
Education is regarded as the key to economic development, and COVID-19 has provided all universities the unique opportunity to urgently address their fitness for purpose. Universities can play a significant …
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Stimulating boundary crossing learning in a multi-stakeholder learning environment for sustainable development
- Wageningen University
Sustainable development requires multiple stakeholders to work and learn across practices, in other words, it requires boundary crossing competence. To prepare students for their future sustainability professions, higher education should …
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Social and environmental reports at universities: a Habermasian view on their evolution
- Università di Verona
This paper analyses how social and environmental disclosure has evolved over the years in Italian universities and aims to understand whether attention to sustainable development has changed. To determine this …
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Sustainable campus using concept mapping: a bottom-up approach engaging both staff and students
- Sunway University (Selangor)
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Purpose: This paper aims to highlight a multidimensional model of sustainability practices that are considered meaningful and practical for implementation by higher education institutions (HEIs).
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CSR Education in Economia Aziendale Curricula: An Overview
- Università del Salento
In the last few years, policymakers have underlined the need for new soft and hard skills about corporate social responsibility (CSR). The main debate about CSR education has been driven …
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Understanding students' intention and actual eco-friendly behavior: A qualitative research in University
- National Penghu University of Science and Technology
Universities can be considered a community because of their large population, large size and participation in many activities on campus. The behavior of these individuals has a direct or indirect …
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Developing an Integrated Sustainability Management Approach for Higher Education Institutions
- University of the West of England, Bristol
The Higher Education Institutions' (HEIs) around the world have to pay the main role in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals for that HEIs need to be sustainable first. This …
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Education for Sustainable Development and Action-Oriented Learning at Higher Education Institutions: Reflections on a Trans-Disciplinary Teaching Project
- Pädagogische Hochschule Freiburg
The objective of ESD is to make people think differently about lifestyles as well as economic and political structures, to raise awareness for complex problems, to sharpen political judgment and …
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Planning to overcome perceived barriers: environmental and sustainability education, inclusion, and accessibility
- Université de Saint-Boniface (MB)
Integrating environmental and sustainability education (ESE) approaches into faculty of education classrooms that are inclusive of learners with a broad range of diverse needs can seem daunting. Our purpose is …
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Making Change Visible – An Explorative Case Study of Dealing With Climate Change Deniers in Forest Education
- School Administration of Lower Saxony
This case study addresses the issue of climate change denial among students in their firstyear of vocational education. It was possible to shake the belief that man-made climatechange was not …
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Organizational Change Management for Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions: A Systematic Quantitative Literature Review
- University of Surrey
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have been urged to integrate sustainability across all their structural and organizational dimensions. A promising area of research and practice that can help to deliver this …
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On and beyond traumatic fallout: unsettling political ecology in practice and scholarship
- Clark University (MA)
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
- University of Tennessee System Office (TN)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Franz Fanon poignantly argued that trauma is both an act and a memory of wounding that haunts subjects of violence. Addressing geographies of trauma, and the way that trauma is …
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Learning towards environmental sustainability practices: insights from a values-based participatory research approach
- University of the Free State
- Fudan University
Transformative Learning Theory is instrumental in fostering sustained positive change in adult learners as it explains how critical reflection in crystallization processes results in emancipatory learning. Despite its relevance, there …
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Investigating barriers to efficient electricity management practices in government-owned tertiary institutions: a case of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife
- Obafemi Awolowo University
- City University of Hong Kong
- Federal University of Technology Akure
Energy efficiency is a cost-effective way to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions; however, certain barriers have hindered its adoption in public universities. Hence, it is essential to identify and analyze the …
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Praxis-Poiesis: University–Community Relationship in an Epoch of Uncertainty and Disruption
- Brock University (ON)
This paper presents findings from a critical ethnographic study that spanned 3 years from 2018 to 2021 in a Canadian post-secondary context and engaged transdisciplinary quantum feminisms as a conceptual …
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The Role of Simulation and Serious Games in Teaching Concepts on Circular Economy and Sustainable Energy
- Boston University (MA)
- Technische Universiteit Delft
- University of Southampton
- Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Barcelona)
- Universidad Pública de Navarra
The prevailing need for a more sustainable management of natural resources depends not only on the decisions made by governments and the will of the population, but also on the …
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Investigating the environmental behavior of business and accounting university students
- National Technical University of Athens
- University of West Attica
The purpose of this study is to explore the underlying dimensions of environmental behavior (EB) and examine how environmental education (EE) and ecological sensitivity (ES) motivate the EB of Business …
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Exploring personal definitions of sustainability and their impact on perceptions of sustainability culture
- James Madison University (VA)
- Inflexion
The purpose of this paper is to present an exploratory analysis of campus community member (i.e. students, faculty, staff) definitions of sustainability, their perceptions of select elements of sustainability culture …
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The socially responsible European university: a challenging project
- University College London (London)
- Universidad de Tarapacá
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Purpose: This paper aims to propose a thesis about the historical evolution of the relationship of the European University in relation to the idea of social responsibility.
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Sustainable development competencies and student-centered teaching strategies in higher education institutions: the role of professors as gatekeepers
- Hochschule Pforzheim
- Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Umwelt Nürtingen-Geislingen
This study aims to investigate the role of professors as gatekeepers for sustainable development competencies (SDC) in disciplinary study programs. It aims to understand which factors are crucial for professors …
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Sustainability in Top Hospitality/Leisure Management Programs: Teaching for a Sustainable Future?
- University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
Higher education (HE) programs in hospitality/leisure management studies offer the theoretical knowledge which should prepare graduates to be effective thought leaders for a changing global workplace. Previous research examined HE …
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The Contribution of Higher Education Institutions to the SDGs—An Evaluation of Sustainability Reporting Practices
- Università del Salento
The introduction of Agenda 2030 has impacted the public and private sectors. Agenda 2030 is a document that aims to promote collaboration and partnership between countries and the population for …
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Engaging Students in the Development of an Atmospheric Science Course: A Discourse Analysis
- Beijing Normal University
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With increasing emphasis on learners-centered approach in teaching and learning, engaging students in course development and refinement is crucial. This study aims to foster a participatory approach in course …
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(Un)Subjugating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development
- Rowan University (NJ)
- Nottingham Trent University
The relationship between development and higher education has evolved to become co-generative. The most recent incarnation of development goals, the sustainable development goals (SDG) call for a more intentional integration …
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Engaging students in education for sustainable development: The benefits of active learning, reflective practices and flipped classroom pedagogies
- University of Edinburgh
Effective Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) requires appropriate pedagogies that engage learners in transformative learning. These pedagogies include reflective and active learning, involving experiential, collaborative and learner-centred activities. This paper …
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Perceptions of Environmental Science and Management Students on Synchronous Online Teaching of Environmental Policies: Learning Experience from Southeast Asian Cohort
- University of Greifswald
- Thai Nguyen University Of Agriculture and Forestry
Understanding global environmental policies addresses the aim of educating individuals to become environmentally literate on pertinent issues related to sustainable development. Online classes were established recently in most public universities …
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Student Teachers' Change Agency in Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Turku
- University of Eastern Finland
Previous research shows that teachers are key players in supporting agency in the faceof the biggest global challenges of our time, such as climate change and pollution, asteachers educate societiesí …
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The nexus between stakeholders’ materiality and sustainable development goals: evidence from higher education institutions
- Yildiz Technical University
The purpose of this study is to shed light on the association between stakeholders’ materiality and the sustainable development goals (SDGs), highlighting how higher education institutions (HEIs) can pursue sustainable …
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Accelerating the implementation of SDG 4: stakeholder perceptions towards initiation of sustainable community engagement projects by higher education institutions
- University of Mpumalanga
This paper aims to present the results of an investigation on how a reciprocal relationship between the University of Mpumalanga (UMP) in South Africa and the surrounding communities can be …
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Sustainable Development Goals and Education: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis
- Universidad Pablo de Olavide
- UNICEF (NY)
The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda sets out 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aimed at improving life in all its dimensions, covering all sectors, with a particular emphasis on education. The …
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The Influence of Instructional Delivery Modality on Sustainability Literacy
- University of Georgia (GA)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
As human environmental impacts have increased, so has the desirability of sustainable practices in multiple dimensions and at multiple scales. In this context, sustainability literacy has become a desirable outcome …
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SDGs: A Responsible Research Assessment Tool toward Impactful Business Research
- University of Guelph (ON)
- Yorkville University (NB)
An alternative research assessment (RA) tool was constructed to assess the relatedness of published business school research to the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The RA tool was …
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Methodological approach for the construction of environmental management indicators in universities
- Universidad Central de Venezuela
Universities have become interested in environmental management. In them, there are problems of inadequate residues and waste management; high energy consumption and demand; water and air pollution; impacts on biodiversity, …
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The Impact of Service Learning in the Development of Student Teachers’ Socio-Educational Commitment
- Comillas Universidad Pontificia (Madrid)
This research arises from the university’s need to contribute to the training of professionals, especially teachers, who, in turn are committed to contribute to a more sustainable and socially just …
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How management education is engaging students in the sustainable development goals
This paper aims to explore if, and how, business schools globally have been engaging their students in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), both inside and outside the classroom, since the …
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Teaching What Society Needs: “Hacking” an Introductory Marketing Course With Sustainability and Macromarketing
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
- Ollscoil na Gaillimhe - University of Galway (Co. Galway)
- University of London
- Middle East Technical University
- IE Business School
Marketing classes are often focused on the micro level, failing to account for wider societal issues. In this article, we argue for the inclusion of a wider macro-sustainability focus, one …
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Teaching and learning for change: analysis of a post-graduate One Health program
- Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels Region)
- Université Dan Dicko Dankoulodo de Maradi
- Université de Namur
- Université de Liège
- Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d'Ivoire
- Université de Montpellier
As problematized through the One Health concept, global health issues are defeating conventional disciplinary approaches since they unfold across various scientific domains and across all levels of society. Calling for …
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Corporate Social Responsibility through SDGs: Preliminary Results from a Pilot Study in Italian Universities
- Università del Salento
Background: In the broad scientific debate on the integration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the strategic planning of universities and on the use of monitoring the results of the …
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Factors influencing sustainable development integration in management education: An Empirical Assessment of management education institutions in India
- GLA University
- University of Lucknow
The popularity of the notion of sustainable development has increased immensely in today's fast-paced business environment. The public's awareness of various sustainability challenges around the world has also increased, and …
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Investigating critical community engaged pedagogies for transformative environmental justice education
- University of Utah (UT)
Effective environmental justice education poses unique challenges to both educators and students. For students, this pursuit is cognitively challenging at best and emotionally paralyzing at worst. It requires deconstruction of …
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Preparedness of higher education institutions for achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4: the case of Nepalese universities
- Tribhuvan University of Nepal
The purpose of this paper is to assess the quality of education, research, and governance of Nepalese higher education institutions (HEIs) as a supplement to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 4 …
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Effectiveness of a game-based class for interdisciplinary energy systems education in engineering courses
- University of Tsukuba
Professionals in the energy sector are required to understand the interactions among technology, society, and the environment to tackle complex trade-offs among policy issues. The fostering of such professionals with …
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