International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 21 Issue 4

Students’ perceptions of HEI regarding environmental sustainability – a comparative analysis

Elisabete Correia, Fátima Conde, Rosa Nunes, Clara Viseu

This paper aims to compare the environmental sustainability practices at the campus operations between two Portuguese higher education institutions (HEIs) at different stages of…

Climate change education in school: knowledge, behavior and attitude

Vanessa Tibola da Rocha, Luciana Londero Brandli, Rosa Maria Locatelli Kalil

The purpose of this paper is to present an experience of inclusion of the theme “climate change” in a Brazilian public school through training conducted with teachers.

Sustainability in management education: a Biggs’ 3P model application

Patricia Kanashiro, Edson Sadao Iizuka, Caio Sousa, Suzi Elen FeRReira Dias

The purpose of this paper is to assess the main factors that contribute to teaching and learning sustainability in management education (SiME), which is defined as a body of…

Evaluation of integration of sustainable development in higher education in Sweden

Göran Finnveden, Eva Friman, Anna Mogren, Henrietta Palmer, Per Sund, Göran Carstedt, Sofia Lundberg, Barbro Robertsson, Håkan Rodhe, Linn Svärd

Since 2006, higher education institutions (HEIs) in Sweden, should according to the Higher Education Act, promote sustainable development (SD). In 2016, the Swedish Government…

Evaluation of a tertiary sustainability experiential learning program

Geoffrey R. Browne, Helena Bender, James Bradley, Alexis Pang

This paper aims to describe the development, promotion and evaluation of sustainability learning experience database (SLED), a university-curated database of sustainability…

Safety management module to create social sustainability skills

Hans Liwång

This study has a scope limited to a specific course and changes integrated to the core of the KTH naval architecture master program. The students in the program have earlier…

Students’ attitudes towards sustainable development in Serbia

Vesna Nikolic, Tamara Vukic, Tatjana Maletaski, Milica Andevski

The purpose of this paper is to examine university students’ attitudes towards the concept of sustainable development and towards the need for the implementation of education for…

Education for flourishing: an illustration of boundary object use, peer feedback and distance learning

Francesca Ostuzzi, Maya Hoveskog

Teaching sustainable development at the higher education level requires that existing curricula are supplemented with multi-disciplinary (and sometimes multi-national…

Promoting language education for sustainable development: a program effects case study in Japanese higher education

Joshua John Jodoin

The purpose of this study is to examine the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD) approaches in English as a foreign language (EFL) in Japanese higher…

A study of development mode in green campus to realize the sustainable development goals

Bifeng Zhu, Chufan Zhu, Bart Dewancker

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the way to achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). Through the introduction and learning of a specific case, this paper…

Investigating the environmental behavior of business and accounting university students

Grigorios Kyriakopoulos, Stamatios Ntanos, Sofia Asonitou

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…