Teaching Environmental Sustainability to Higher Education Students: Some Reflections

Abstract

This paper deals with teaching environmental sustainability to students in higher education, focusing on the sustainability of buildings and the built environment and more specifically on energy. Integrating sustainability issues into the curricula of engineering education proves to be a big challenge. The main issues are: the fuzzy definition of sustainability; continuously advancing insights in environmental sciences and mono disciplinary versus multidisciplinary approaches. These issues are put into relation with theories and practice regarding curriculum development and change.

Citation

Itard, L. and Bogaard, M.v.d. (2010), "Teaching Environmental Sustainability to Higher Education Students: Some Reflections", Open House International, Vol. 35 No. 2, pp. 6-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/OHI-02-2010-B0002