Integrating Sustainable Development into the Higher Education Built Environment Curriculum

Tim McLernon

Integrating Sustainable Development into the Higher Education Built Environment Curriculum

Tim McLernon

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Universities play a pivotal role in influencing policies, practices and human behaviour that govern how we live. Historically, the influence of universities in this respect was acknowledged by the Talloires Declaration of 1990 which stated that:“Universities have a major role in the education, research, policy formation, and information exchange necessary to make these goals [of a sustainable future] possible”.This paper explores the pedagogical and practical questions of how best to embed sustainable development in the higher education curriculum of the built environment disciplines, within the constraints of the current operating environment, in order to provoke a cultural shift in student behaviour. It is a small, qualitative study intended to add to the discussion on how best to embed sustainable development in the higher education curriculum. Interview data were collected from four key informants from academia and one from the professions. These data were supplemented by the analyses of policy and operational matters associated with the institutional promotion of sustainability. The findings of the study were applied to a previously devised, theoretical model for programme-based assessment and the paper concludes with a proposed model for embedding sustainable development in the higher education curriculum of the built environment disciplines. The findings should inform other disciplines.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	4th International Conference on Sustainability Engineering and Science
Place of Publication	Auckland, New Zealand
Publisher	American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Pages	384-393
Number of pages	384
ISBN (Print)	978-0-473-18919-8
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 3 Dec 2010

Bibliographical note

Reference text: EAUC, (2010). Embedding Sustainable Development in the Curriculum, section 6. Retrieved August 16, 2010, from
http://www.eauc.org.uk/sorted/files/esd-embedding_1.pdf

Goodhew, P. (2002). Modularisation and Sliced Bread, UK Centre for Materials Education. Retrieved September 1, 2010 from http://www.materials.ac.uk/discuss/modularisation.asp

Jones, P., Trier, C. J., and Richards, J. P. (2008). Embedding education for sustainable development in higher education: A case study examining common challenges and opportunities for undergraduate programmes. International Journal of Educational Research, 47(6), 341.

McLernon, T. (2010). Abstract and poster prepared for NAIRTL/LIN (National Academy for Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning / Learning Innovation Network) National Conference, Flexible Learning. Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland October 6-7.

Morris, H. (2000). The Origins, Forms and Effects of Modularisation and Semesterisation in Ten UK-Based Business Schools, Higher Education Quarterly, 54(3) pp 239–258.

Talloires Declaration, (1990).. Retrieved May 14, 2010, from
http://www.ulsf.org/programs_talloires_td.html

UNESCO, (2010). Education for Sustainable Development. Retrieved May 14, 2010, from http://www.unesco.org/en/esd/

UNESCO, (2009). United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD, 2005 – 2014) Review of Contexts and Structures for Education for Sustainable Development. Retrieved May 14, 2010, from
http://www.unesco.org/education/justpublished_desd2009.pdf

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Embedding
sustainabilty
higher education
curriculum.

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Integrating Sustainable Development into the Higher Education Built Environment Curriculum

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