International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education: Volume 24 Issue 6

Public administration education towards Sustainable Development Goals: psychometric analysis of a scale

Ana Lendínez-Turón, Cándida María Domínguez-Valerio, Francisco Orgaz-Agüera, Salvador Moral-Cuadra

The purpose of this research paper is to adapt and validate a useful instrument to diagnose the knowledge, attitudes, behaviours and intention to participate (KABIP) towards…

An analysis of the Brazilian higher educational opportunity and challenge processes to achieve the 2030 Agenda for the sustainable development

Gláucya Daú, Annibal Scavarda, Maria Teresa Rosa Alves, Ricardo Santa, Mario Ferrer

Population worldwide has experienced several challenges related to sustainable development, such as scarcity of natural resource, unsustainable consumption, poverty, injustice…

Sustainability reporting on the websites of public and private universities in Ghana

Kwame Oduro Amoako

The purpose of this paper is to compare the sustainability dimensions reported on the websites of public and private universities in Ghana, an emerging economy.

The sustainable development goals in a Bachelor of Design course; current integration and benefits, constraints and opportunities for deeper integration

Geoffrey R. Browne

Universities’ unique position within society means they have an important role to contribute to sustainability and to help achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs), which…

The evolution of sustainability in engineering education research: a longitudinal analysis through bibliometrics and the CDIO initiative

Grecia Alarcon-Pereira, Izabela Simon Rampasso, Francisco J. Tapia-Ubeda, Karol Rojas-Aguilar, Carolina Rojas-Córdova

Considering the relevance of education for sustainable development (SD) to enhancing engineers’ abilities to contribute towards sustainability-related issues, this study aims to…

Understanding sustainability as a cyclical process: insights from social innovation and the adaptive cycle

Alexa M. Dare, Ruth Dittrich, Macey Schondel, Molly Lowney, Gregory Hill

This paper aims to understand why higher education institutions (HEIs) struggle to become sustainable institutions themselves despite providing relevant teaching and research on…

Project-based learning and pedagogies for virtual reality-aided green building education: case study on a university course

Huiying (Cynthia) Hou, Joseph H.K. Lai, Hao Wu

Green building education, an important aspect of sustainability in higher education, has rapidly expanded across the world. Yet, a bespoke pedagogical model integrating the…

Impacts of service learning on tourism students’ sustainability competencies in conflict-affected Bamyan, Afghanistan

Kelly Franklin, Sarah J. Halvorson, Fletcher Brown

This paper aims to investigate the impacts of service learning (SL) on teaching sustainability competencies in an undergraduate tourism program at Bamyan University, Afghanistan…

Sustainability in Business Administration programs in Brazil: what curricula changes have taken place in the past ten years?

Lisiane Celia Palma, Lessandra Medeiros de Oliveira, Nilo Barcelos Alves, Paola Schmitt Figueiró

This study aims to analyze the extent to which sustainability and its related core aspects have been integrated in the curricula of Business Administration programs in Brazilian…

Active methodologies and curricular sustainability in teacher training

Estefanía Martínez Valdivia, Maria del Carmen Pegalajar Palomino, Antonio Burgos-Garcia

Changes in society, the economy and health require a response from higher education regarding the training of professionals, specifically, future teachers. In this sense, active…