Sensemaking of sustainability in higher educational institutions through the lens of discourse analysis
Olga Dziubaniuk,
Catharina Groop,
Maria Ivanova-Gongne
et al.
Abstract:Purpose
This study aims to explore the range of sustainability-related discourses by the stakeholders within a particular Finnish Higher Education Institution (HEI); interaction between the discourses and the context of the HEI; and the extent to which different understandings of sustainability cause challenges for the implementation of the university strategy for sustainability. Specifically, the paper explores how the employees within the HEI make sense of sustainability in their teaching, research and daily… Show more
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