Inventory and analysis of environmental sustainability education in the degrees of the University of Alcalá (Spain)
Authors
Chuvieco Salinero, Emilio; Carrillo Hermosilla, Javier; López Mújica, Montserrat; Campo López, Eva María Del; Lazo Vitoria, Ximena Angélica; [et al.]Identifiers
Permanent link (URI): http://hdl.handle.net/10017/60353DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148310
ISSN: 2071-1050
Publisher
MDPI
Date
2022-07-07Affiliation
Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Electrónica; Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Filología Moderna; Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida; Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Ciencias Jurídicas; Universidad de Alcalá. Departamento de Economía y Dirección de Empresas;Funders
Universidad de Alcalá
Bibliographic citation
Chuvieco, E.; Carrillo-Hermosilla, J.; López-Mújica, M.; Campo-López, E.; Lazo-Vitoria, X.A.; Macias-Guarasa, J.; Petre-Bujan, A.L.; Perdigón-Melón, J.A.; Guardiola-Soler, J.; Salado-García, M.J. Inventory and Analysis of Environmental Sustainability Education in the Degrees of the University of Alcalá (Spain). Sustainability 2022, 14, 8310.
Keywords
Higher education
Education for sustainable development
Degrees
Syllabi
University of Alcalá
Project
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/UAH//UAH%2FEV982_2018
Document type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Version
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Publisher's version
https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/su14148310Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
© 2022 The authors
Access rights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Abstract
In order to promote education in environmental sustainability at higher education institutions and establish action priorities, a detailed analysis of the initial situation is needed, both in terms of courses offered and teaching and assessment strategies implemented. This article presents a methodology that can be used to standardize the evaluation of teaching in environmental sustainability at different universities. We exemplify its application at the University of Alcalá, located in Central Spain. The inventory was conducted using in-house software development for the extraction of environmental sustainability concepts in the degree courses? syllabi, completed with a survey to faculty members and a manual review to confirm its adjustment to environmental issues. Those finally selected were analyzed in depth. The main results indicate that currently, only a small part of the courses (5.5%) offered at the University explicitly include environmental sustainability content. The grades that concentrate most of the courses are those of Environmental Sciences, Biology, Economics, Tourism and Pharmacy, with very low occurrence in the grades of Education and Health Sciences. It is concluded that further institutional commitment is needed in the definition of medium-term strategies to guide the training and dissemination efforts in order to promote sound environmental education in university courses.
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