Building major competencies for enhancing higher education for sustainable development

Challenges of integration of education for sustainable development in Handcrafts higher education

The purpose of present study was to analyze the current status of Handcrafts’ education in Iran’s Art universities in the context of sustainable development discourse. This idea was shaped due to the potential and actual capacity of handicrafts’ industries encountered an education model for sustainable development. The main question was how is the current status of bachelor of Handcraft educati...

Sustainable Development-Based Education in Higher Education with Emphasis on Sustainability Competencies of the Graduates (Case Study: Bachelor course of Handicrafts)

This research aims to identify the basic changes and requirements in the structure of higher education of handicrafts to acquire the graduateschr('39') sustainability qualifications. Since higher educationchr('39')s philosophy and goal is to educate sustainable human beings, a successful graduate has acquired all the sustainability qualifications and can integrate them into his knowledge and ac...

E-learning Competencies for Teachers in Secondary and Higher Education

Revolutions and Second-Best Solutions: Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education

Despite widespread policy support for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in higher education (HE) and a strong academic literature arguing for a radical rethink of curriculum, pedagogy and institutional culture, progress towards the educational reforms envisaged for ESD remains limited. Based on in-depth interviews with lecturers at a casestudy university, this paper explores reasons f...

Searching on a Model for Sustainable Agricultural Higher Education Center (SAHEC)

This research has used a mixed methodology with both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The study population included three groups; the post-graduate students, professors and academic staff at two universities, Khouzestan Ramin Agriculture and Natural Resources University and Bu-Ali Sina University. For collecting quantitative data among 320 students, 175 were selected using random sampli...