International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 22 Issue 3

Incorporating green building into architectural education: what can we learn from the value-belief-norm theory?

Xiaohuan Xie, Shiyu Qin, Zhonghua Gou, Ming Yi

Aiming to find out how to incorporate green building into the architectural curriculum, this study aims to explore the psychological path for cultivating architectural students’…

Problem-posing in management classrooms for collective sustainability transformation

Janette Brunstein, Mark Edward Walvoord, Ed Cunliff

The purpose of this study is to examine the possible benefits of approaching sustainability-related teaching cases from the perspective of problem-posing (PP) instead of…

Organizational change for sustainability education: a case study of one university’s efforts to create and implement institution-wide sustainability competencies

Vanessa R. Levesque, Cameron P. Wake

The purpose of this study is to examine how the process of creating and implementing sustainability competencies across a university illuminate dynamics of organizational change…

University gardens for sustainable citizenship: assessing the impacts of garden-based learning on environmental and food education at Spanish higher education

Marcia Eugenio-Gozalbo, Guadalupe Ramos-Truchero, Rafael Suárez-López

Gardens are being used at all educational stages, because they provide with a real-world context for active and experiential learning. In Spain, there exists a movement in favor…

Learning processes for interpersonal competence development in project-based sustainability courses – insights from a comparative international study

Theres Konrad, Arnim Wiek, Matthias Barth

For professional sustainability work, graduates need to be able to work in teams and collaborate with stakeholders; in other words, they need to have developed interpersonal…

Assessment of solid waste management practice in the university campus

Saad Dahlawi, Mahmoud F. El Sharkawy

Municipal solid waste (MSW) consists mainly of several recyclable materials such as paper and cardboard. Inside the educational institutes, especially universities, MSW is…

Incorporating sustainability in engineering curriculum: a study of the Australian universities

Md. Arman Arefin, Md. Nurun Nabi, Saalem Sadeque, Prasad Gudimetla

Literature limited in scope regarding the incorporation of sustainability into engineering curriculum encouraged authors to look at the current approaches of universities to the…

Measuring environmental website communications in Latin American universities: multimodal and ecolinguistic benchmarking

José-Santiago Fernández-Vázquez

This paper aims to explore the current state of website environmental communications in Latin American universities through a benchmarking operational tool. The study considers…

Key experiences for the transdisciplinary approach: fieldwork-based training in sustainability science education

Shogo Kudo, Kanako Omi, Kevin Florentin, Doreen Ingosan Allasiw

This paper aims to describe how a sustainability-focused program in higher education can provide training and key experiences for implementing transdisciplinary approaches. The…

How transformative learning nurtures ecological thinking. Evidence from the Students Swap Stuff project

Ingrid Molderez

There is a growing call for novel approaches in education with respect to sustainable development. Transformative learning lacks empirical research. This paper responds to that…

Drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial intentions among university students: an integrated model from a developing world context

Agu Godswill Agu, Okwuagwu Okuu Kalu, Chidadi Obinna Esi-Ubani, Paul Chinedu Agu

The purpose of this study is to integrate and extend two models of entrepreneurial intention to investigate the drivers of sustainable entrepreneurial intention among intermediate…

Sustainability in higher education: what is happening in Pakistan?

Muhammad Nauman Habib, Uzma Khalil, Zunnoorain Khan, Muhammad Zahid

Sustainability in higher education has gained the attention of researchers and academia; however, there is still a need to explore and assess it from different perspectives that…