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Title Higher education for sustainability : the Portuguese case / Carolina Machado, J. Paulo Davim, editors
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2023

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Contents Chapter 1 - The Portuguese Sustainable Campus Network: A knowledge collaboration for sustainability transformation in Higher Education Institutions -- Chapter 2 - Global academic rankings. A challenge or a chance to Portuguese Higher Education Institutions -- Chapter 3 - UMinhos seven guiding principles for sustainability strategies A critical assessment -- Chapter 4 - Sustainability at the University of Madeira: A cultural transformation -- Chapter 5 - Sustainability and student motivation: does the campus matter? -- Chapter 6 - Sustaining the well-being of University students: The role of expectations on the usefulness of education -- Chapter 7 - The contribution of Social Sciences and Arts to the Sustainable Development Goals in higher education -- Chapter 8 - Higher education for sustainability in Portugal: a glimpse about what has been studied and published
Summary This book presents the efforts that different educational institutions, with particular emphasis on higher education institutions, have been developing in order to contribute to a type of teaching that enhances sustainability. It also helps to understand the role that these organizations are playing in order to foster sustainability in their governance, teaching methods, and social life inside and outside the campus. Focusing specifically on the issue of sustainability in higher education in Portugal, the chapters of this book are written by Portuguese researchers and university professors and members of different Portuguese higher education institutions. The content reflects not only on the strategies, policies and procedures that have been developed in Portuguese higher education institutions in terms of sustainability, but also on the research that has been carried out in these same institutions. Among others, this book highlights The Portuguese Sustainable Campus Network, the cultural and sustainability transformation, challenges and changes in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions, the motivation and the well-being of University students in terms of sustainability, and the Sustainable Development Goals in higher education in Portugal
Notes Includes index
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 12, 2023)
Subject Sustainability -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Portugal
Environmental education -- Portugal
Education, Higher -- Portugal
Education, Higher
Environmental education
Portugal
Form Electronic book
Author Machado, Carolina, 1965-
Davim, J. Paulo.
ISBN 9783031287930
3031287932