scholarly journals Integration of Sustainability in Engineering and Architectural Studies in Spanish Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 8044
Author(s):  
Leire Guerenabarrena-Cortazar ◽  
Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri ◽  
Ernesto Cilleruelo-Carrasco
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Curricular Change ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Curricular Transformation

The recommendations of the UN and other international bodies on the need to transform university curricula to incorporate sustainability values, content and competencies have met with a warm reception from universities all over the world. However, the actual state of the integration of sustainability in higher education is, in general, somewhat more modest than one would expect. This article proposes a method of measuring the extent of sustainability-oriented curricular change in the Spanish University as a whole and applies it to the degrees in engineering and architecture. The method entails a documentary analysis of the teaching guides related to 1050 subjects. The results obtained do not invite optimism: curricular transformation is slow and insufficient and its results are still incomplete.

Transforming University Curricula Towards Sustainability

2017 ◽  
pp. 805-827
Author(s):  
Vassilios Makrakis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Middle East ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
The University

The UNESCO Chair ICT in Education for Sustainable Development in cooperation with the RCE Crete (Regional Centre of Expertise) on Education for Sustainable Development responding to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD 2005-2014) took the initiative to establish a North-South Network for embedding sustainability in higher education institutions. A Consortium with 12 universities (six from Europe and six from Middle East) led by the UNESCO Chair and the RCE Crete at the University of Crete prepared a proposal submitted to the Tempus- European Commission programme for funding. The RUCAS (Reorient University Curricula to address Sustainability) project, studied in this chapter, has initiated various activities in the partner countries' institutions, which seem to exert significant curricular changes. The changes include the revision of courses, building the appropriate infrastructure, the development of an online community of practice and the RUCAS Toolkit that are being used as drivers for reorienting university curricula to address sustainability. As a result, a growing number of academics in the partner institutions are concerned with the current sustainability crisis and claim for a transformative shift in what they teach and how teaching is practiced.

scholarly journals Imagining the World: Conceptions and Determinants of Internationalization in Higher Education Curricula Worldwide

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Zapp ◽  
Julia C. Lerch
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Regional Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Study Programs ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
International University ◽  
Internationalization In Higher Education ◽  
Cross National

Cross-national analyses of university curricula are rare, particularly with a focus on internationalization, commonly studied as impacting higher education through the mobility of people, programs, and campuses. By contrast, we argue that university knowledge shapes globalization by producing various sociopolitical conceptions beyond the nation-state. We examine variants of such a globalized society in 442,283 study programs from 17,129 universities in 183 countries. Three variants stand out, which vary across disciplines: an interstate model (prevalent in business and political science), a regional model (in political science and law), and a global model (in development studies and natural sciences). Regression models carried out on a subset of these data indicate that internationalized curricula are more likely in business schools, in universities with international offices, in those with a large number of social science offerings, and in those with membership in international university associations. We discuss these findings and their links to changes in universities’ environment, stressing the recursive relationship between globalization and higher education.

scholarly journals Sustainability in Higher Education for the Global South:

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seema Purushothaman ◽  
Chitra Ravi ◽  
Harini Nagendra ◽  
Manu Mathai ◽  
Seema Mundoli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Global South ◽  
Educational Goal ◽  
The Third ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education

A workshop on ‘Sustainability in Higher Education from the vantage of the Global South’was organized by the Azim Premji University between 12 and 14 January 2015 inBengaluru, India. Its goal was to explore how sustainability can be integrated into undergraduate,postgraduate and professional courses. The workshop was divided intofour sessions with interlinked themes – the first, with a focus on framing sustainability;the second, on integrating sustainability in higher education; the third, on sustainabilitycurricula; and the last, on pedagogy for sustainability. All four sessions were informedby the broader educational goal of enabling students from diverse backgrounds toenvision, conceptualise, research and implement sustainability in varied personal andprofessional contexts. Participants of the workshop drew upon their varied experiences,from India and institutions across the world, in the teaching and learning of the multidimensionalconcept of sustainability in diverse geographies. The questions, counterquestions,discussions and potential solutions raised during the workshop are presentedin this paper in a dialogic style.

The Use of Social Networking by Higher Education Institutions in Spain

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Javier Miranda ◽  
Antonio Chamorro ◽  
Sergio Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Private Universities ◽  
Evaluation Index ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Spanish Universities

The objective of this study was to analyse the use Spanish universities are making of the main social network today: Facebook. The research adapts to the Higher Education Institutions context an evaluation index denominated FAI that has been used in other areas. It applies the index to all of Spain's universities, making comparisons between them and the best universities in the world. The results show that Spanish universities' indices are far from the values obtained by the best international universities, and that the country's private universities have better results than the public ones. It is an intention of the work to contribute to the tools the marketing managers of higher education institutions might use in how they relate to social networks and to the opportunities and threats these pose.

scholarly journals Drivers for Sustainability Awareness Development in Tourism Curricula: The Case of Spanish Universities

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (9) ◽  
pp. 939
Author(s):  
Libertad Moreno-Luna ◽  
Rafael Robina-Ramírez ◽  
Marcelo Sánchez-Oro ◽  
José Castro Serrano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Tourism Studies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Tourism Destinations ◽  
Spanish Universities ◽  
Common Barriers ◽  
And Training

Spain is one of the most popular tourism destinations in the world, and one of the top ten countries in terms of tourism contribution to its economy. As tourism is causing a gravely negative impact on the environment, universities play a key role in raising student awareness and reducing the damaging consequences of said tourism. Connections between sustainability and tourism studies have received little attention in higher education. The lecturing staff and student bodies from universities were interviewed with the aim of finding out what motivates academics to develop conductors and indicators that raise environmental awareness within under-graduate Tourism degrees. Results show a different perspective on teaching sustainability within the tourism curricula at public and private universities. According to the participants, motivation and training lecturers have been the two main drivers. Results can be applied to other Tourism degrees in order to overcome the common barriers that these studies have to face to introduce sustainability in the tourism curricula.

scholarly journals Students’ Perception about Sustainability in the Engineering School of Bilbao (University of the Basque Country): Insertion Level and Importance

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (15) ◽  
pp. 8673
Author(s):  
Zaloa Aginako ◽  
Teresa Guraya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
The University

Almost three decades have passed since the Rio declaration, and after numerous initiatives developed to include sustainability in higher education, with the support of Education for Sustainable Development, it is worth wondering at what point is the process of inserting sustainability in university degrees. To clarify this question, engineering students were inquired, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), about their perception of the insertion-level of sustainability and the importance they give to it (in environmental, social, and economic dimensions). The novelty of this study lies in the use of a new questionnaire, based on the students’ activity. The instrument was designed ad hoc and was previously validated for this study. The results indicate a low insertion level of sustainability in its three dimensions in three engineering degrees analysed. Nevertheless, the research also shows that the students give great importance to Sustainable Development (SD), either in academic, personal, or professional spheres. The low insertion level of SD and the high interest of students should be considered by the academic institution as an opportunity to deep in its holistic approach to promote the integration of SD in university curricula, not only in engineering degrees.

Transforming University Curricula towards Sustainability

2014 ◽  
pp. 619-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassilios Makrakis
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Middle East ◽  
European Commission ◽  
Online Community ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education ◽  
University Curricula ◽  
The University

The UNESCO Chair ICT in Education for Sustainable Development in cooperation with the RCE Crete (Regional Centre of Expertise) on Education for Sustainable Development responding to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD 2005-2014) took the initiative to establish a North-South Network for embedding sustainability in higher education institutions. A Consortium with 12 universities (six from Europe and six from Middle East) led by the UNESCO Chair and the RCE Crete at the University of Crete prepared a proposal submitted to the Tempus- European Commission programme for funding. The RUCAS (Reorient University Curricula to address Sustainability) project, studied in this chapter, has initiated various activities in the partner countries' institutions, which seem to exert significant curricular changes. The changes include the revision of courses, building the appropriate infrastructure, the development of an online community of practice and the RUCAS Toolkit that are being used as drivers for reorienting university curricula to address sustainability. As a result, a growing number of academics in the partner institutions are concerned with the current sustainability crisis and claim for a transformative shift in what they teach and how teaching is practiced.

scholarly journals Challenges and Opportunities in a Local College in Time of COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 12-18
Author(s):  
Darwin Paguio ◽  
Kristin Joy A. Mendoza ◽  
John Mark R. Asio
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Transition Plans ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Times

The COVID-19 pandemic has presented challenges and opportunities to higher education institutions all over the world. This paper adds to the growing literature on new perspectives in education amidst the global pandemic. It discusses challenges and opportunities in the context of a local higher education institution. Inputs from teaching and non-teaching personnel were considered. Documentary analysis of proposed transition plans and actions plans from the different departments of the college was made. Recommendations to address these challenges were presented, which served as a basis in the formulation of a transition program in upgrading/sustaining quality education in a local college attuned to the needs of the times.

Actual state of the rust fungi systematics in the world.

1995 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 221-224
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Urban
Keyword(s):  
Rust Fungi ◽  
Actual State ◽  
The World

Social Glocalisation and Education

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Hobelsberger
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Local Effects ◽  
Local Identities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Work Health

This book discusses the local effects of globalisation, especially in the context of social work, health and practical theology, as well as the challenges of higher education in a troubled world. The more globalised the world becomes, the more important local identities are. The global becomes effective in the local sphere. This phenomenon, called ‘glocalisation’ since the 1990s, poses many challenges to people and to the social structures in which they operate.

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