scholarly journals Changing Role of the University Teachers: An Agenda for Transformative Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-162
Author(s):  
Rajan Binayek Pasa ◽  
Suman Kharel
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Transformative Education ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The University ◽  
Changing Role

This library based paper appraises importance of transformative education in Nepalese context. In doing so, educational outcomes have been theorized based on Vedic educational philosophy, power and pedagogy as well as fourth goal of sustainable development (quality education for all). This paper comes up with conclusion that transformative education has been becoming international agenda for sustainable development. Nepalese policy also has focused on developing and utilizing human capital potentials. However, modern education system has been re/producing passive teachers and students even in Universities. Teachers are failed to produce critical students having fullest sense of civic virtues and justice that are enviable for maintaining just society. Thus, better to apply intrinsic, extrinsic and functional power and linking teaching with personal and social development while transmitting of knowledge in the process of socializing students and others. Government mechanisms also need to create conducive environment for letting university teachers to participate during policy formulation and implementation processes. Finally, it is better to apply contextual model for transformative education by the University teachers highlighted in this paper.

THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS DURING A PANDEMIC. THE EXPERIENCE OF THE RSUH

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-18
Author(s):  
Nadezhda I. Arkhipova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Educational System ◽  
Emotional Stability ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Digital Competencies ◽  
The University ◽  
Mixed Format

The article deals in the analysis of the organization of the educational process at the university during a pandemic. It shows the ability of universities to adapt to possible changes, to make decisions in conditions of uncertainty and risk, to act in extreme situations. The article also considers the reaction of the educational system, executives, teachers and students to the challenges associated with the pandemic. The authors distinctly show the role of digitalization that made it possible not to interrupt the educational process and that is an important factor in sustainable development. Much space in the article is paid to the issues of emotional stability of all categories of the staff employees and students. The prospect for a mixed format in realizing the educational process, the acquisition of digital competencies by teachers and students is shown.

The Role of Financing Higher Education in Nigerian Universities in Achieving Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-578
Author(s):  
Samir Mohamad Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Private University ◽  
Accurate Information ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Higher Education Financing ◽  
The University ◽  
Financing Higher Education ◽  
The Impact

The current study aims to identify the role of financing higher education in Nigerian universities in the state of Kano and its impact on sustainable development. The study problem lies in the low funding of higher education in Nigerian universities, which will negatively affect the sustainability of higher education and sustainable development. The importance of the study is highlighted by highlighting the importance of financing higher education in Nigerian universities and the sources of obtaining this funding as one of the most important factors through which students can complete their studies. The study followed the qualitative approach with the aim of obtaining more accurate information about traditional higher education financing sources and its impact on the sustainability of education and achieving sustainable development. The study population reached the number of three Nigerian universities, which are a governmental, federal and private university, to learn about the impact of financing higher education in Nigerian universities on sustainable development. The sample of the study was about three out of five of those responsible for financing higher education in Nigerian universities. Also, the study followed unstructured or open interviews in order to obtain more information about financing higher education and whether or not it is suitable for the idea of a monetary endowment. The results of the study showed that the sources of financing for higher education in traditional Nigerian universities are varied, including what can be obtained through the endowment and donations fund that can be made through community initiatives, and the results of the study also indicated that the idea of a monetary endowment faces great challenges in its application, so the idea is subject to acceptance and rejection. According to the nature of the university and the nature of the subjects taught. The study recommended the necessity of expanding the study of the impact of financing higher education in Nigerian universities by expanding the scope of study to include all Nigerian states.

scholarly journals A Conceptual Model Proposal: Universities as Culture Change Agents for Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Dzimińska ◽  
Justyna Fijałkowska ◽  
Łukasz Sułkowski
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Model ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Change Agents ◽  
The Body ◽  
Quality Culture ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to propose a conceptual model that synthesizes the existing findings concerning universities as culture change agents for sustainable development. The model could serve as a guidance on how universities might get involved in the pro-SD activities. It also underlines the prerequisite of the quality culture that should be introduced within all the activities of universities to successfully act as culture change agents for SD. This paper builds upon the holistic and inter-disciplinary approach to demonstrate that SD does not happen in isolation and that the role of universities in its creation is significant. This study includes a literature review to contextualize the impact of universities on culture and their potential role in SD. The conclusions stemming from the literature review materialize in the proposal of the conceptual model of the university as the culture change agent for SD. The elaborated framework responds to the need for greater clarity, ordering and systematization of the role of universities in the processes of initiating, promoting and modelling the SD-oriented changes while appreciating the role of culture as an enabler, means of social change and a result of SD-focused interventions. The paper contributes to the body of knowledge by offering a novel perspective on the assumed interrelations between university, its quality culture, university main operations such as education, research and engagement with the society as well as the culture and the agency of stakeholders in the context of meeting the world’s current demands without compromising the needs of future generations.

Promoting Environmental Sustainability Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Miftachul Huda ◽  
Azmil Hashim ◽  
Mohd Aderi Che Noh ◽  
Mohd Hairy Ibrahim ◽  
Budi Rismayadi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Environmental Concern ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Strategic Partnership ◽  
Development Agenda ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
University Industry

In the last decade, the emerging needs for social responsibility on environmental concern has been considerably transmitted into the initiative of firm alliance. This chapter attempts to examine the essential points of university-, industry-, and community-based strategic partnership for further collaboration alliance. This chapter focuses on the key role of strategic partnership with cooperating into the concern in driving the procedural stage on sustainable development. The findings reveal that outstanding value of strategic partnership would give insights into empowering sustainable-based institutional arrangements assigned with the wide attempts to contribute the prudent public policy formulation to implement the good service to solve environmental and related issues. The value is that strategic partnership trend incorporated in this context would be the point of view for sustainable development agenda rooted into the way of living processes paradigm together with demonstrating the wide range of sustainable governance.

Property

2018 ◽  
pp. 161-178
Author(s):  
Peter Knoepfel
Keyword(s):  
Human Resources ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Implementation Processes ◽  
Swiss Canton ◽  
Private Actors ◽  
Oriented Approach

The application of the resource-oriented approach used in this book confirms the prominent role of the resource Property in the resource portfolios of each of the three policy actors. Property consists of the ownership of property and use rights to material and immaterial (natural, manufactured, social and/or human) resources and the various bundles of goods and/or services they provide to the owner. One of the prominent services of such resources involves their role as policy resource (abstract use of such resources as opposed to concrete uses). The most prominent material resource is the ownership of (strategic) land, which enables both public and private actors to play a predominant role in policy formulation and, especially, implementation processes. The chapter illustrates the mobilization and use modes of the resource Property in the areas of spatial planning, institutional policies (creation of a Swiss canton) , public accounting and state infrastructural policies (land acquisition policies for communal land use policy). It stresses the role of legal appeals by target groups or beneficiary organizations and the privileged position occupied landowners in the planning and implementation of large urban projects.

scholarly journals Artists Residencies, Challenges and Opportunities for Communities’ Empowerment and Heritage Regeneration

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9651
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Pinto ◽  
Serena Viola ◽  
Anna Onesti ◽  
Francesca Ciampa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Project Manager ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
New Form ◽  
The University

The paper debates the results of a research carried out by the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples “Federico II” (DiARC), as part of the Creative Europe 2018 Artists in Architecture, Re-activating modern European houses program (entitled EACEA 32/2017 and EACEA 35/2017; scientific coordinator: Maria Rita Pinto; project manager: Serena Viola). The research investigates the relationships between creativity and sharing as tools of a new form of social sustainability. These elements can induce positive effects on the settlement qualities of the places, acting as engines of the custody of the settlement values and the collaborative regeneration of the built environment. The methodology is based on participatory approaches able to restore the levels of cohesion, care, and creativity that the experimentation typology of the Artists Residencies is able to trigger on the territory and on the communities who inhabit it. The results return in the form of the complex process of the artist exhibition reception a significant strategy of sustainable development, capable of influencing the community by entrusting it with the role of custodian of the existing heritage and of renewing local entrepreneurship with innovative productions.

Universities and smart specialisation strategy

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Rinaldi ◽  
Alessio Cavicchi ◽  
Francesca Spigarelli ◽  
Luigi Lacchè ◽  
Arthur Rubens
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Regional Economies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Smart Specialisation ◽  
The University ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose The paper analyses the emerging role of Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH) universities in contemporary society via third- and fourth-mission activities. In particular, the paper investigates the potential contributions that SSH universities can offer in developing and enhancing capacities, supporting the changing conception of innovation coherently through a Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) approach. Design/methodology/approach The case study presents multiple third- and fourth-mission activities carried out by the University of Macerata (Italy). The activities are framed according to the roles universities could have in supporting S3. Findings Within third- and fourth-mission activities, SSH universities can play different and broader roles (generative, absorptive, collaborative and leadership), which could support regions in designing and implementing S3. Practical implications The paper shows the important contributions that SSH universities can make in their regions, both to support S3 and enhance the transition to sustainable development. Social implications The article emphasises SSH universities’ multiple contributions to sustainable development and to innovation in the knowledge society/economy framework. Originality/value This case study captures SSH universities’ contributions to S3 and the wider innovation paradigm, by highlighting their transformational effect on regional economies.

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