Sustainability teaching at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Labodová, Alena; Lapčík, Vladimír; Kodymová, Jana; Turjak, Juraj; Pivko, Michal

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2013.03.019

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“…For example, those who recycled at home were likely to do so while at university (χ 2 = 2334. 4,20), and this was also the case for conservation of electricity (χ 2 =1593.55, 9) and water (χ 2 = 16,665.6, 9), respectively. Another important point to note from Table 5 is that reported environmental sustainability practices remained relatively constant during the two surveys.…”

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“…Initiatives to engage students have tended to be focused either on incorporating the concepts into the institution's general activities [18], or teaching and learning [19,20]. For example, sustainability education has tended to incorporate activities such as campus greening initiatives, field visits, environmental courses, and workshops [5].…”

Section: Student Engagement With the Concepts Of Sustainabilitymentioning

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The Engagement of Students in Higher Education Institutions with the Concepts of Sustainability: A Case Study of the University of Northampton, in England

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Across higher education institutions there has, for some time, been a growing move towards incorporation of the concepts of sustainability into the policies and practices of the organisations. Using the University of Northampton, in the United Kingdom as a case study, this project aimed to understand the efficacy of student engagement with a sustainability project called Planet Too. The study employed a range of methods including waste and energy audits, as well as questionnaire surveys both with students and landlords to examine their environmental attitudes, beliefs, and practices. The project was able to lead to increased awareness and engagement with the concepts of sustainability amongst the students. Recycling, though it was not one of the initiatives focused upon, was a key practice mentioned by both students and landlords. The engagement of the landlords was focused primarily on conservation of energy and water. However, conservation practices generally remained static, with limited significant or long-term changes in environmental practices. The key implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations suggested.

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Section: Student Engagement With the Concepts Of Sustainabilitymentioning

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The Engagement of Students in Higher Education Institutions with the Concepts of Sustainability: A Case Study of the University of Northampton, in England

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“…The Philippines has a program called Green Philippines Islands of Sustainability (GPIoS) which aims to contribute to the overall improvement of environmental situations in the country's strategic areas such as Metro Manila and its linked regions, Calabarzon, Subic, and Clark (Labodova, 2014).…”

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Eco-Partnership Management From A Legal Perspective: A Comparative In Surakarta, Philippines, And Malaysia

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Introduction: The absence of legal certainty in arranging the regional eco-partnership results in the lack of maximum realization of sustainable development by the regional government partners in Surakarta City, Indonesia. This research analyzes the concept of the legal policy on the environment-based eco-partnership realizing sustainable development. Methods: This legal research employed a doctrinal approach. The type of research is descriptive. It is to explain the research object, namely the regional partnership policy in Surakarta City. Results and Discussion: The policy concept offered in this research is based on the identification process by looking for root causes that affect the non-realization of partnerships that accommodate the principles of sustainable development in Surakarta. It uses several indicators, namely: (1) Partners of Surakarta City government; (2) regulation; (3) society, which are described as the small bones. Meanwhile, the big bones are the analysis results of the root problems from the three indicators, i.e. the non-realization of eco-partnerships. As a comparison, the Philippine Ecological Management Act of 2000 has fully decentralized its implementation. It mandates the 3R policy: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycling. It sets a target of at least a 25% diversion rate among local governments. Malaysia formulated the New Economic Model to cement its commitment to pursue sustainable development based on high income, inclusivity, and sustainability Conclusion: Therefore, the Surakarta City Government needs to reformulate the regional regulation on the partnership by integrating economic, social, and environmental aspects into the partnership policy (eco-partnership) as an effort to achieve sustainable development.

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“…Although the concept of sustainability is perfectly established, several approaches have been used to introduce sustainability in the curricula of higher education courses with different results (Green, 2013;Labodová, Lapčík, Kodymová, Turjak & Pivko, 2014;Rose, Ryan & Desha, 2015;Staniškis & Katiliūtė, 2015). Thus, having in mind that the E4SD course was designed for students from different engineering and non-engineering graduation courses, it had to respect the natural diversity of student's knowledge.…”

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A multicultural approach to teach sustainability

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Globalization is a trend that covers all society perspectives in general, and higher education in particular. The main traditional objective of higher education institutions has been to prepare domestic students with a given set of skills. Research competition and University's rankings, as well as the need to reach other publics, pushed them towards internationalization. The exchange of students across the EU is a well-known reality which success is largely due to cultural similarities. However, a set of issues raises in importance when students from different cultures are involved. ISEP proposed a Summer Course aiming both to increase its level of internationalization and to verify how the institution is able to host foreign students. Therefore was organized, in July 2014, ISEP's first Engineering for Sustainable Development Summer Course, with a layout specifically designed to address those questions. In our study, and in order to gain from an intensive and multicultural experience, the class included equal number of Korean and Portuguese students to develop work under the framework of sustainability, a theme chosen in order to foster consensus. This work reports some results from this experience, which included a Problem Based Learning (PBL) approach, and points out new directions: PBL revealed to be a promoting integration way; the inclusion of multiple cultures allowed the analysis of different perspectives which otherwise would not have been succeed; institutional academic/social services need to be adapted in order to receive non-Portuguese speaking students; there is a need for further adequate accommodation able to receive a larger number of international students.

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Sustainability teaching at VSB – Technical University of Ostrava

Cited by 12 publications

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The Engagement of Students in Higher Education Institutions with the Concepts of Sustainability: A Case Study of the University of Northampton, in England

The Engagement of Students in Higher Education Institutions with the Concepts of Sustainability: A Case Study of the University of Northampton, in England

Eco-Partnership Management From A Legal Perspective: A Comparative In Surakarta, Philippines, And Malaysia

A multicultural approach to teach sustainability

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