Quality Education as a Sustainable Development Goal in the Context of 2030 Agenda: Bibliometric Approach

Abstract

Quality education is understood as one of the most powerful and proven drivers for ensuring sustainable development, which can be applied in various educational contexts, formal and non-formal, and which can generate multiple benefits for the general public. Given its relevance, this article presents a bibliometric approach of the scientific production generated around Sustainable Development Goal (SPG) 4 that seeks to “Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning” as a priority objective of 2030 Agenda. To develop this research, a literature search was conducted in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The final sample was 240 publications. The data were analyzed around ten variables: year of publication, type of document, area of indexation, periodical publications, most productive authors, institutions, countries, languages, most cited articles, and key words. The findings of this study indicate that quality education, within the Sustainable Development Goals, is gaining relevance, with 2019 being the year with the highest scientific production. This is a growing theme that is transmitted mainly through articles and papers in English, and there are no institutions, research groups or authors with a broad scientific background and production. The conclusion is that this bibliometric approach is important and necessary to know the reality of scientific production on this subject and to be able to make proposals and lines of research for its development.

Communication on Sustainability in Spanish Universities: Analysis of Websites, Scientific Papers and Impact in Social Media

“…The present findings are consistent with that trend, for nearly 70% of all the articles analysed were published in the last 5 years. Similar results have been reported [46,47]. Overall, they would appear to indicate that Spanish universities are exhibiting sensitivity to addressing the worldwide challenges defined by the United Nations in their research agendas.…”

“…Both this study and the research conducted by González et al [47] identified Sustainability and the Journal of Cleaner Production as the publications carrying the largest share of Spanish universities' research articles on sustainability. This study found that over 37% of the papers analysed appeared in those two publications, which were found to play a significant role in disseminating more general or inter-disciplinary papers on the subject.…”

Analíticas de aprendizaje y su potencial para una educación de calidad sostenible

“…Específicamente el ODS4 se centra en la Educación de Calidad, la cual se entiende como uno de los motores más poderosos y probados para garantizar el desarrollo sostenible, que puede aplicarse en diversos contextos educativos, formal y no formal, y que puede generar múltiples beneficios para la población en general. Así, el ODS4 busca "Garantizar una educación inclusiva, equitativa y promover el aprendizaje permanente para todas las personas, independiente del sexo, edad, raza, etnia, vulnerabilidad y personas con discapacidades o migrantes aplicado a la educación en todos los niveles, primaria, secundaria, terciaria, formación técnica y profesional y también desde la primera infancia hasta la edad adulta (Boeren, 2019;González, Colomo & Cívico, 2020).…”

“…Revisiones bibliométricas recientes han concluido que el impacto de las publicaciones en la calidad educativa en el contexto de la Agenda 2030 y los ODS son un tema en proceso de desarrollo, con un crecimiento progresivo y continuo pero, donde aún no existen instituciones o autores que sean referencia debido a la baja producción poniendo de manifiesto la necesidad de implementar políticas a nivel global que se centren en diversas acciones relacionadas, con implicaciones tanto teóricas como prácticas (González, Colomo & Cívico, 2020).…”

Map and Track the Performance in Education for Sustainable Development across the European Union

“…Several recent studies have tackled the progress towards several SDGs and have suggested ways to achieve these goals: SDG7-clean energy [19], SDG13-climate change [20], SDG17-public private partnership [21]. Regrettably, SDG4-quality education has been relatively ignored in the literature [22] and there is not a broad corpus of knowledge on this subject [23]. Measuring the progress of ESD is of critical importance, but it faces many challenges which have largely been recognised [24,25].…”