Sustainability Education in Risks and Crises: Lessons from Covid-19

Wolff, Lili-Ann

doi:10.3390/su12125205

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“…Education has to question its own role in these troubled times, notably in promoting a fair, equitable and sustainable society for all. It is the role of education to permanently question the whole notion of sustainable development as the right path to follow, instilling in its students the will to "create new visions and paradigms to make this world a better place" [48] (p. 4). Surely there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution, but aspects such as training, internet access infrastructures, hardware and software, digital literacy, and teaching and learning strategies for students and academics will be critical in this transformation.…”

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The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

Sá¹,

Serpa

2020

Sustainability

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The COVID-19 pandemic has had profound consequences on the social, economic and cultural life at the global level. The educational dimension has also been affected in the schools’ regular functioning, with the temporary closure of educational institutions, as well as the impediment of face-to-face classes. This perspective paper aims to add to the knowledge already produced on this topic, by arguing that these challenging conditions can be a pivotal moment of opportunity for reshaping higher education, with the implementation, development and diffusion, among academics and students, of digital technologies. The paper also discusses the role of leadership in the transformation of organizational culture in higher education. The methodology used to carry out this study is qualitative, and the technique employed to analyze the data collected was content analysis. Research studies, in diverse formats, already published on the COVID-19 topic and its impacts were the elected data sources. The results of this document analysis allow us to conclude that there is the need to improve the digital sustainable development in teaching in higher education, which entails profound challenges that higher education institutions need to face and overcome if they want to be at the forefront of success in the international education market. This is where the authors seek to contribute, by offering insights on the challenges—but also the opportunities—that COVID-19 poses to higher education at a time when it needs to redefine its teaching methods, leadership models, and interaction channels, by going digital towards the improvement of the sustainable development of its teaching.

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The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

Sá¹,

Serpa

2020

Sustainability

148

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“…This section explains the proposed framework for the prevention of COVID-19 by colleges and universities. The governments of some countries have implemented largescale lockdowns and used the media to promote the concept of "stay at home" to reduce the spread of COVID-19 [8]. Before the epidemic has slowed down, campus epidemic prevention work is even more important.…”

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The Formulation of Epidemic Prevention Work of COVID-19 for Colleges and Universities: Priorities and Recommendations

Hsu

Yang

2021

Sustainability

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As the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic spreads all over the world, governments of various countries are actively adopting epidemic prevention measures to curb the spread of the disease. However, colleges and universities are one of the most likely places for cluster infections. The main reason is that college students have frequent social activities, and many students come from different countries, which may very likely cause college campuses to be entry points of disease transmission. Therefore, this study proposes a framework of epidemic prevention work, and further explores the importance and priority of epidemic prevention works. First of all, 32 persons in charge of epidemic prevention from various universities in Taiwan were invited to jointly formulate a campus epidemic prevention framework and determined 5 dimensions and 36 epidemic prevention works/measures/criteria. Next, Bayesian best worst method (BWM) was used to generate a set of optimal group criteria weights. This method can not only integrate the opinions of multiple experts, but also effectively reduce the complexity of expert interviews to obtain more reliable results. The results show that the five most important measures for campus epidemic prevention are the establishment of a campus epidemic prevention organization, comprehensive disinfection of the campus environment, maintenance of indoor ventilation, proper isolation of contacts with confirmed cases, and management of immigration regulations for overseas students. This study provides colleges and universities around the world to formulate anti-epidemic measures to effectively reduce the probability of COVID-19 transmission on campuses to protect students’ right to education.

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“…Axes of a multidisciplinary model for sustainable innovation: Life transition after COVID-19 | 1-17 Dynamic equilibrium. From various perspectives, dynamic equilibrium is an operational condition within a system (Ben-Eli, 2018;Binder et al, 2020;La Torre et al;van Barneveld et al, 2020;Wolff, 2020;Zabaniotou, 2020). Under this context, by building the model that encompasses sustainability, we took the broader aspect of general system theory: cybernetics.…”

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Axes of a multidisciplinary model for sustainable innovation: Life transition after COVID-19

Muñoz¹,

Aréchiga²,

Castrejón³

et al. 2021

Acta Universitaria

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In the post COVID-19 era, the current sustainability model should be adjusted to the current life transition considering the lessons learned in this atypical era. The current sustainability model, which is composed of three axes: environment, economy, and society, seems insufficient. It should integrate the axes of health, from an environmental health perspective (not only anthropogenic), and legislation within a detailed analysis in the standardization towards a balanced trend in harmony with the environment. In addition, innovation is proposed as a transversal axis. Based on a detailed analysis of more than 400 published works on sustainability, this work proposes a new conceptual model centered on a multidisciplinary perspective, analyzing and integrating each of the proposed axes. This conceptual model represents a strategic correlation between each axis towards a sense of globalized benefit and an environmentally-friendly life transition, hence, respecting the health of the planet.

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Sustainability Education in Risks and Crises: Lessons from Covid-19

Cited by 40 publications

References 8 publications

The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

The COVID-19 Pandemic as an Opportunity to Foster the Sustainable Development of Teaching in Higher Education

The Formulation of Epidemic Prevention Work of COVID-19 for Colleges and Universities: Priorities and Recommendations

Axes of a multidisciplinary model for sustainable innovation: Life transition after COVID-19

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