scholarly journals Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Development among Malaysian Undergraduates

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Balamuralithara Balakrishnan ◽  
Fumihiko Tochinai ◽  
Hidekazu Kanemitsu
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Economic ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Development Education ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Perceptions And Attitudes ◽  
Current Paradigm ◽  
Sustainable Development Education

This paper reports the findings of the perceptions and attitudes towards sustainable development among Malaysian undergraduates. The study was carried out involving 154 undergraduates from five universities in Malaysia. This research was conducted based on a survey whereby the respondents were given a questionnaire to gauge their perception and attitude towards sustainable development. The output of the analyses showed that the respondents have positive perceptions and attitudes towards all sustainability dimensions—environmental, economic, and social—except for economic and social bound issues. These findings suggest that the educators who are involved in sustainable development education need to focus on economic and social bound aspects. Overall, the findings showed that the sustainable development education in higher education institutions has cultivated an appropriate sense of responsibility towards sustainability among their undergraduate students. As such, this investigation serves as a cornerstone to which the current paradigm of sustainable development education can be examined for further improvement by related stakeholders.

Educating Architecture Students for Sustainable and Environmental Responsibilities

2020 ◽  
pp. 120-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alshimaa A. Farag ◽  
Rahma M. Doheim
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Deep Understanding ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Development Education ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Sustainable Development Education

Rapidly developing cities are significantly damages the environment and imposes a crucial need for sustainable development education. Higher education institutions must grasp their responsibility towards leading the community to respond to the challenges. Universities shape the minds of future leaders, therefore, students must be genuinely prepared with a deep understanding of environmental issues and sustainable development in both theory and practice. This chapter provides a guide for architecture educators to adopt learning approaches that can improve students' sense of sustainable responsibility. Potentially, this would qualify students to connect with communities and contribute to solving local social, cultural, and environmental problems.

scholarly journals Scaling the Mental Health Literacy Amongst Undergraduate Students: A Road Towards Sustainable Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 219
Author(s):  
Sonali Sharma ◽  
Upma Gautam ◽  
Deeksha Bajpai Tewari
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Health Literacy ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Mental Health Literacy ◽  
Development Education ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Thesis Statement ◽  
Knowledge And Attitude

Thesis Statement: In spite of being globally prevalent, mental illness faces apathy from the community as well as policymakers and is a point of grave social concern. Health—including mental health—and education are an imperative precondition of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Education plays a crucial role in inculcating a positive attitude towards mental illness hence high mental health literacy would benefit the society at large. The present research aims to decipher the knowledge and attitude of undergraduate college students towards mental illness. Method: Students of medicine, law and engineering from different colleges in Delhi, India were cross-sectionally surveyed to fathom their attitudinal differences towards mental illness using the CAMI Scale. Results: An affirmative response was observed on Benevolence as well as Community Mental Health Ideology Sub-Scales and a dissenting opinion was identified on the Authoritarian and Social Restrictive Sub-Scales, howbeit significant differences were discerned on the basis of faculty of education. Conclusions and Implications: Results suggested that to accomplish the aspirations of the SDGs there is an ardent need to improve mental health literacy of students. The course curriculum of students needs to be revisited to integrate informative sessions on mental illness.  Keywords: Sustainable Development, Education, Mental Health Literacy, CAMI Scale, Undergraduate Students

scholarly journals ENSURING GENDER EQUALITY AND DEMOCRATIC TRANSFORMATIONS IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS OF UKRAINE ACCORDING TO THE OBJECTIVES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT : GENDER PORTRAIT OF PRYDNIPROVSKA STATE ACADEMY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

2021 ◽  
pp. 114-127
Author(s):  
M. V. SAVYTSKYI ◽  
H. P. YEVSIEIEVA ◽  
V.A. BABENKO ◽  
S.P. VOLKOVA ◽  
G.I. LYSENKO
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Teaching Staff ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Gender Parity

Formulation of the problem. Ukraine's accession to the global democratic processes of recognition ofequal rights and opportunities for everyone within the global process of sustainable development has launched aninclusive process of adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and establishing strategic frameworks for Ukraine'snational development until 2030. The actualization of the policy of equal rights and opportunities for scientific andpedagogical community of higher education institutions of Ukraine has become especially important, in accordancewith the defined goals of sustainable development, contributed to updating gender portraits of educational institutions toassess the real situation in the institutions, priority issues, needs and interests of women and men, ways to ensure genderbalance and social justice. Higher education institutions of Ukraine form basic humanistic concepts, such as: genderculture, adherence to the principles of gender equality, prevention of gender discrimination in its various forms,involved in the development and implementation of promising programs to ensure gender equality, research on genderissues. The purpose. The aim is to study the observance of the principles of gender equality in education as a factor ofdemocratic transformation in higher education institutions of Ukraine, to create a gender portrait of Prydniprovska StateAcademy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and on this basis to form the principles of gender equality and genderculture in PSACEA educational environment. Conclusions. Ukraine, which is developing inseparably from worlddevelopment and world political and gender thought, is approaching gender parity. The share of working women withhigher education and scientific degrees in the total number of employed in Ukraine is one of the largest in the world30.4% (3rd place). At the same time, although there are fewer and fewer purely male and purely female professions inUkraine and the world today, there are some gender distortions. In the field of education, medicine, culture, economy,mostly women work, and in industrial and technical fields − most men. The gender audit in the PSACEA confirms thistrend in some faculties, including economics, where women predominate among both students and teachers, in contrastto technical faculties, where men predominate. Among doctors of sciences, professors, especially in exact sciences, menstill prevail. The analysis of the gender portrait of PSACEA as a whole shows the relative gender parity, both in thestudent environment and among the teaching staff, in the leading structural units. As we can see, Ukraine, as ademocratic state, is gradually introducing the idea of egalitarianism in all spheres and, in particular, in the system ofhigher education, which characterizes the level of democratization of the state.

scholarly journals ELABORATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE UNIVERSITY MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Suslenco ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Balanced Development ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Sustainability In Higher Education ◽  
The Republic

This paper represents a well-founded scientific approach, which elucidates the need to develop a model for ensuring the sustainability in higher education institutions. The aim of the paper is to develop its own model of sustainable development of universities in the Republic of Moldova in order to increase their competitiveness. The research problem is to find an optimal model with the purpose of ensuring a sustainable development of universities in the Republic of Moldova. The research question: what model of sustainable development can be applied to higher education institutions in the Republic of Moldova. Therefore, in this context, several models of the sustainable development of higher education institutions were reviewed, and towards the end, the own model of ensuring sustainability within the universities of the Republic of Moldova was developed. The model includes an innovative approach on the creation of a sustainable university in the conditions of the Republic of Moldova. The model proposed by us is based on ensuring a balanced development from an ecological-economic-social point of view, along with the most important levels that must be developed within a university in order to ensure a sustainable development. The research methodology focused on the use of a range of relevant methods such as: analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, abduction, documentation, scientific abstraction, which helped us to advance in research and obtain the expected results. In conclusion, we can reiterate that each university, which claims to step firmly on the path of competitiveness and is able to raise students’ interest, motivate their development, create notoriety among stakeholders, has to develop a model of sustainable, viable, competitive development that could ensure a secure path in the future. The model proposed by us is a viable one, and deserves to be applied in the context of increasing competitive pressures. This model will help the universities to deal with competition, to overcome the problems and challenges faced by higher education institutions in the Republic of Moldova, such as the decrease of college enrolment rate and the number of students, the diminution of notoriety, lack of viable tools applied within the university in the interest of ensuring competitive advantages. Applying our own model constitutes an innovative approach for strengthening the sustainability in higher education institutions based on effective tools that will definitely contribute to increasing the performance and ensuring sustainability in higher education institutions in the Republic of Moldova.

scholarly journals Sustainability Practices of Higher Education Institutions in Hong Kong: A Case Study of a Sustainable Campus Consortium

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiyan Xiong ◽  
Ka Ho Mok
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Public Universities ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
External Impact ◽  
Sustainability Practices

Eight University Grant Committee (UGC)-funded public universities in Hong Kong positively and successfully responded to the global call for sustainability efforts in higher education institutions (HEIs). Various initiatives are transpiring within these eight campuses. The Hong Kong Sustainable Campus Consortium (HKSCC) was co-established by eight UGC-funded universities, which is an excellent example of integrating resources and efforts to achieve sustainable development goals and exert positive social impacts. Through interviews with HKSCC administrators and members and reviewing relevant documents, this study aims to examine the roles and challenges of HKSCC toward Hong Kong HEIs’ sustainability efforts, and present the good practices and achievements of HKSCC. Findings of this study reveal that although HKSCC and each UGC-funded university contribute in reaching the sustainability goals, they should pay considerable attention to the external impact of sustainability practices on communities and society. Moreover, we propose that the sustainable development of public universities in Hong Kong should look beyond the narrowed definition of sustainable development and broaden their roles to exert a social impact by addressing the negative consequences of the massification, privatization, and internationalization of higher education.

scholarly journals The Role and Importance of Talloires Declaration in Establishing Sustainable Higher Education Institutions

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-424
Author(s):  
muhammed yunus bilgili
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Natural Resources ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

The intensive use of environmental and natural resources to satisfy human needs has risked the potential of renewable ecosystems and caused environmental problems. In order to respond to the problems faced, the current economic system has been interrogated. In the response emphasizing that future generations have the right to benefit from natural resources, the sustainable development approach has come to prominence. It has been observed that the issues of sustainable development and sustainability have been intensely discussed by higher education institutions since the 1980s. Until the Talloires Declaration (1990), the relationship between sustainability and higher education has been focalized to environmental education, with this declaration, the sustainability of higher education institutions has been brought to the agenda. The aim of this study is to examine Talloires Declaration on behalf of role, importance and transformations in establishing sustainable higher education institutions

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