The Impact of Education for Sustainable Development on Romanian Economics and Business Students’ Behavior
| Autor: | Grigore Ioan Piroșcă, George Laurențiu Șerban-Oprescu, Liana Badea, Silvia Dedu |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Higher education
020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject Geography Planning and Development TJ807-830 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 01 natural sciences Renewable energy sources Empirical research Perception Political science ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering GE1-350 Curriculum 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Sustainable development Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Romanian education for sustainable development Public relations Education for sustainable development sustainability language.human_language Environmental sciences Sustainability language business responsible behavior |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability Volume 12 Issue 19 Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 8169, p 8169 (2020) |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | Education for sustainable development (ESD) has presented long-lasting interest for researchers and policy makers. Despite a significant body of research, more in depth empirical studies are required for a better understanding of how sustainable development goals are applied in higher education and how sustainable behavior could be shaped via ESD. The need for this kind of research arises from, first, the scarceness of existing studies that explore economic and business higher education, and, second, the necessity to properly assess the connection between ESD principles and students&rsquo behavior. Following this rationale, the present paper aims to provide an overview of how students&rsquo sustainable behaviors are shaped via their perception of sustainable campus initiatives, teaching staff involvement and curricula. Statistical and econometric analysis applied on data collected via a survey on students from Bucharest University of Economic Studies (N = 1253) provides findings on the extent to which the awareness of sustainable development-specific issues acquired through education leads to sustainable behavior among students. According to the results, we argue that an increasing share of sustainable development topics combined with teaching staff involvement to raise awareness of sustainability issues are crucial to students&rsquo sustainable behavior. However, on-campus actions are unlikely to change behavior unless they are optional rather than compulsory. Our findings ratify that, since education is one of the main drivers of sustainable development, there is an urgent need for coherence in shaping higher education according to sustainability issues. |
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