Managing Diversity : The Challenges of Inter-University Cooperation in Sustainability Education
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F19%3A00110939" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/19:00110939 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/20/5610" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/11/20/5610</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205610" target="_blank" >10.3390/su11205610</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Managing Diversity : The Challenges of Inter-University Cooperation in Sustainability Education
Original language description
One of the main challenges in sustainability discourse is its multifaceted nature often requiring that many different disciplines must cooperate in order to achieve progress. This issue also concerns sustainability education. In the article, we highlighted the experiences from the international cooperation of university teachers and researchers with highly diverse professional backgrounds who worked together on developing educational materials for university students in sustainability-oriented courses. The study is based on qualitative, participatory evaluation research, applying two rounds of open-ended questionnaires distributed to the same respondents (n = 18). For the analysis, we used the open-coding procedure for identifying the main categories. The results show some of the opportunities and barriers that emerged in the process of this cooperation. In particular, we discuss the issues related to the high heterogeneity of the group, such as the clashes of the different perspectives on the topics covered, group dynamics issues, trust, facilitation challenges, and also opportunities that such heterogeneity offers. We highlight the importance of open reflectivity in sustainability-oriented educational projects as the key to their successful implementation. Finally, we believe that results of this participatory study are useful in designing new projects aiming at further improvement of academic education in sustainability and sustainable development.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50301 - Education, general; including training, pedagogy, didactics [and education systems]
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
R - Projekt Ramcoveho programu EK
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Sustainability
ISSN
2071-1050
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
11
Issue of the periodical within the volume
20
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
16
Pages from-to
1-16
UT code for WoS article
000498398900067
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85073955735