University Students' Perception on Sustainable Development: A Case Study from Turkey

This paper mainly investigates the perception and knowledge on climate change of the university students in Bangladesh. To carry out this study, primary data are collected from 370 students and uses several statistical methods. Perception and knowledge on the causes, effects and mitigation ways of climate change problems, and perceived duties to combat against climate change are analyzed with descriptive statistics. This paper finds that deforestation is the main cause of global warming and climate change and, the effects of climate change is very serious on people’s health. Majority portion of the students think that it is difficult to combat against climate change problem because it has already been too late to take action. Besides this study also finds that government is crucially responsible for combating against climate change problem. The study calls for government mainly besides industry and youths to aware people about the causes, effects, mitigation ways of climate change so that they can contribute to the sustainable development by mitigating climate change problem.

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Beyond Cliché – Reclaiming the Concept of Sustainability

Australian Journal of Environmental Education ◽

10.1017/s0814062600000793 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 26 ◽

pp. 7-18 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Robert J. Fuller

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

University Students ◽

Energy Supply ◽

Next Generation ◽

Supply Systems ◽

New Buildings ◽

Energy Supply Systems

AbstractIn closing his 2008 Myer Lecture, the scientist and environmentalist Dr Tim Flannery said that this century will be defined by the search for sustainability. How perilous therefore that nowadays there is so much overuse of the word “sustainability” that it has become a cliché. Today's tertiary students studying architecture and energy-related subjects are so exposed to this linguistic devaluation that most of them appear to have accepted the vagueness of the term and are on their way to becoming the next generation of misusers. This paper presents a case study of an attempt to sharpen up the debate with some university students from these particular disciplines. A model of the four principles of sustainable development that has been found to be particularly useful is described. The students in question were challenged to think about the meaning of some of the words ascribed to new buildings and about the implications of the four principles to energy supply systems.

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TEACHING SUSTAINABILITY ONLINE TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS WITH THE USE OF INTERACTIVE PRESENTATION TOOLS: A CASE STUDY

Advanced Education ◽

10.20535/2410-8286.227792 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (18) ◽

pp. 11-18

Author(s):

Iryna Lytovchenko ◽

Nataliia Yamshynska ◽

Neonila Kutsenok ◽

Violeta Filatova

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

University Students ◽

Engineering Students ◽

Environmental Behaviour ◽

Multimedia Resources ◽

Wide Range ◽

Experimental Learning ◽

Before And After ◽

Students Attitudes

The study was aimed to analyse the efficiency of teaching sustainability online at ESP classes. The participants of the study were 33 second-year technical university students who studied Sustainable Development issues with the use of interactive presentation platforms Thinglink and Padlet which employed different multimedia resources – text, pictures, sound, animation, video. The students’ attitudes toward sustainability issues before and after the experimental learning was measured with the use of the sustainability consciousness questionnaire developed by Gericke, Boeve‐de Pauw, Berglund and Olsson (2018). The analysis of changes in different parameters of engineering students’ sustainability consciousness showed the feasibility and appropriateness of teaching sustainability in an ESP course. The students’ answers showed an increase in their knowingness of issues of Sustainable Development and their more responsible environmental behaviour, which implies the importance of disseminating knowledge and educating people for building a sustainable future. Based on the results of our study, we can conclude that ESP is a course which can organically integrate sustainability topics into its curriculum and use a wide range of resources and materials about Sustainable Development, since the majority of them are in English and thus can contribute not only to Learning for Sustainability but also to language acquisition. The use of online presentation tools and a wide range of multimedia resources on their platforms makes the learning more interactive and motivating for students and stimulates them to active inquiry into sustainability issues.

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Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo)

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2019.02.359 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Eleonora FIORE ◽

Giuliano SANSONE ◽

Chiara Lorenza REMONDINO ◽

Paolo Marco TAMBORRINI

Keyword(s):

University Students ◽

Single Case ◽

Real Life ◽

Learning By Doing ◽

Assessment Data ◽

Entrepreneurial Skills ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Education Levels ◽

Positive Effect

Interest in offering Entrepreneurship Education (EE) to all kinds of university students is increasing. Therefore, universities are increasing the number of entrepreneurship courses intended for students from different fields of study and with different education levels. Through a single case study of the Contamination Lab of Turin (CLabTo), we suggest how EE may be taught to all kinds of university students. We have combined design methods with EE to create a practical-oriented entrepreneurship course which allows students to work in transdisciplinary teams through a learning-by-doing approach on real-life projects. Professors from different departments have been included to create a multidisciplinary environment. We have drawn on programme assessment data, including pre- and post-surveys. Overall, we have found a positive effect of the programme on the students’ entrepreneurial skills. However, when the data was broken down according to the students’ fields of study and education levels, mixed results emerged.

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Social Design for Services Framework

Conference Proceedings of the Academy for Design Innovation Management ◽

10.33114/adim.2017.89 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Melanie SARANTOU ◽

Satu MIETTINEN

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Research Group ◽

Design Research ◽

Service Design ◽

Social Design ◽

Practical Action ◽

The Social ◽

The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

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