Awareness and Attitudes Towards Sustainable Development Amongst Higher Education Students in Penang, Malaysia

Wee, Maurice I.; Ariffin, Fatin Nabilla; Ng, Theam Foo; Shabudin, Ahmad Firdaus Ahmad

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47877-7_4

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“…At the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), a course titled 'Sustainability Issues, Challenges and Prospects' has been offered to all USM undergraduates (Wee, 2017). In all engineering programs at the tertiary level, engineering undergraduates will be exposed to SD in both technical and non-technical subjects, as it is part of the accreditation requirements by the Malaysian accreditation body (Aziz et al, 2012).…”

Section: Education Of Sustainable Development In Malaysian Higher Edumentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the levels of perception and attitude toward SD among Malaysian undergraduates is not a well-researched area. The studies that are available on ESD in Malaysian higher education institutions concentrate on assessing the level awareness of the undergraduates towards SD that were conducted in studies by Zainordin et al (2017) and Wee (2017). Moreover, Reza (2016) has mentioned that although the current ESD in Malaysia has developed the students' knowledge and responsibilities toward sustainability, this has not been verified in any studies.…”

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Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Development among Malaysian Undergraduates

Balakrishnan

Tochinai²,

Kanemitsu³

2019

IJHE

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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.

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Section: Education Of Sustainable Development In Malaysian Higher Edumentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Development among Malaysian Undergraduates

Balakrishnan

Tochinai²,

Kanemitsu³

2019

IJHE

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“…It is important to note there are many factors that influence consumer attitudes including education and knowledge [66,69], and age [70,71]. Our research will focus on the link between attitudes and gender as a variable in two countries with somewhat different levels of development, the United States of America (USA) and Romania.…”

Section: Attitudes Toward Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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“…Young people are often expected to be more concerned about sustainability issues since they are more informed, more vocal and proactive, and involved in different environmental projects, thus it is easier to make sustainable choices. Tuncer et al [70] and Wee et al [71] suggested that youth are very interested in sustainability issues and are disposed to adopt a sustainable lifestyle. Other studies pointed out an opposite fact: older population could be more concern about environmental issues compared to a younger population [72,73].…”

Section: Attitudes Toward Sustainable Developmentmentioning

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Consumer Attitudes toward Sustainable Development and Risk to Brand Loyalty

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The present study reveals the importance of understanding how business decisions focused on sustainability can impact companies, due to the risks associated with brand loyalty. The relationship between brand loyalty and consumers' environmental viewpoint is investigated, including how consumers' brand loyalty would be impacted after environmental-based expansion decisions are announced. College students from the USA and Romania (N = 92) were asked to voluntarily participate in a survey. The Brand Loyalty Scale (BLS) is used to assess brand loyalty before and after a fictitious expansion announcement was made and the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale is utilized to assess attitudes toward sustainability. A paired samples t-test analysis reveals a significant positive correlation between NEP scores (attitudes toward sustainability) and brand loyalty. No significant differences are found in attitudes toward sustainability regarding region (Romania and USA) or gender. These results indicate that individuals who generally show concern towards the environment will stay loyal to their favorite companies after sustainability is introduced. Results also indicate that the gap regarding region and gender is slowly closing in attitudes toward sustainability; individuals in developing countries are also showing a major concern toward environmental issues. Males indicate just as much concern toward the environment as females, which is confirmed by other findings in previous literature.

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“…But for our students-attached to their cellphones, facing a barrage of advertising with every waking hour-are these outward-facing postures of attitudinal and behavioral change, when combined with an English lexicon of SD, sufficient for the enactment of change? Recent research suggests that students in Asia are well-informed about SD issues and expressed a great deal of concern about them (Wee, Ariffin, Ng & Shabudin, 2017). While some researchers (Caniglia et al, 2018) promote such ideas as a digital transnational collaboration for sustainability, this paper pursues a lateral methodology.…”

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Education for Sustainable Development in the Efl Classroom: Exploring Intersubjectivity

Steeg¹

2019

International Conferences Internet Technologies &Amp; Society 2019 and Sustainability, Technology and Education 2019

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English as foreign language (EFL) curricula commonly include certain sustainable development (SD) topics, which are covered in a limited fashion within a larger topic base. Because SD is a global issue and participation in that conversation occurs primarily in the English language, students in the EFL classroom are in a prime position to benefit from an increased exposure to an SD lexicon and SD topics. While traditional education for sustainable development (ESD) focuses on student awareness of issues and behaviors, psychology practitioners suggest that additional gains in student attitudes may be achieved by focusing on the ontology of humans and their relationships to Nature. Accordingly, this study examines ways of introducing inner work and intersubjectivity into the EFL classroom with the goal of examining and altering the viewpoint of students such that they see themselves more of Nature rather than apart from it. Examples of classroom modifications are given, including content and text recommendations, as well as course structure. Justifications are presented for including mindfulness and intersubjectivity in exercises in the EFL classroom as a method to practice ESD.

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Awareness and Attitudes Towards Sustainable Development Amongst Higher Education Students in Penang, Malaysia

Cited by 18 publications

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Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Development among Malaysian Undergraduates

Perceptions and Attitudes towards Sustainable Development among Malaysian Undergraduates

Consumer Attitudes toward Sustainable Development and Risk to Brand Loyalty

Education for Sustainable Development in the Efl Classroom: Exploring Intersubjectivity

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