... Sustainability Higher education Educational innovation Sustainability competencies Challenge-based learning The authors acknowledge the financial and technical support of the Writing Lab of the Institute for the Future of Education, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Education...

... outcomes in sustainability-integrated language education. Design/methodology/approach This conceptual paper proposes a model for embedding sustainability competencies into language curricula while integrating self-efficacy theory. Drawing on sustainability education, competency-based curriculum design...

...HyunJung Bang Purpose This paper aims to investigate the efficacy of COIL+, a hybrid pedagogical model integrating virtual collaboration and field immersion, in enhancing sustainability competencies among higher education students. It also aims to assess how COIL + fosters transformative learning...

...Mayra Liuviana Vega Chica; Luis Angel Valle Lituma Purpose This study aims to examine how Latin American business schools formally integrate sustainability competencies into their postgraduate business programs, drawing on the framework proposed by Wiek et al. (2011) and considering...

...Gregory V. Massara; Courtney B. Ryan; Mary Ellen Mallia Purpose This study aims to explore how a performance-based assessment measures students’ higher-order sustainability competencies in ways that multiple-choice or scaled-survey tools, common ways to assess sustainability literacy, may...

... for sustainability transformations were mapped, contextualized and organized into thematic modules reflecting a spiral-curriculum structure. This approach fostered the progressive, integrative development of key sustainability competencies, ensuring alignment between pedagogical strategies and professional demands...

... 12 2025 © 2026 Emerald Publishing Limited 2025 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Higher education Campus sustainability Sustainability competencies Sustainability education First-year students Interdisciplinary team teaching In 2015, the United...

... commitment to sustainability highlights the role of HEIs in achieving the SDGs and cultivating responsible and sustainability-conscious leaders (Rodríguez-Zurita et al., 2025). SL bridges theory and practice by aligning university-acquired sustainability competencies with market needs...

... of active teaching methodologies, namely, problem-oriented learning and the case method, to develop sustainability competencies. It also analyses the advantages and challenges for teachers when implementing the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in eight undergraduate and postgraduate degrees within...

.../legalcode This study aims to assess higher education students’ interest in learning sustainability competencies and their pro-ecological worldviews at a large research-intensive university in Finland to provide a background information for developing a sustainability science course. In total...

... This paper aims to investigate the impacts of service learning (SL) on teaching sustainability competencies in an undergraduate tourism program at Bamyan University, Afghanistan. This study reports on tourism students’ experiences in the SL course which taught five key sustainability competencies...

... degrees and nine education degrees in the Spanish university system. Design/methodology/approach ESD is analysed from the students’ learning perception. This perception is measured by comparing the responses of first- and fourth-year students to a questionnaire about their sustainability competencies...

...). These guidelines were drawn up after an exhaustive study of the different proposals on sustainability competencies found in the literature, and recommend the inclusion of four competencies related to sustainability in the curricula of all Spanish university degrees (although the document provides no precise...

... is an important sustainability competence (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2005 ; Agyeman, 2005 ; Wiek et al., 2011a). Collaborative or interpersonal competence on the novice-level includes diversity and intercultural capabilities (Adams et al., 2007...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Higher education Education for sustainable development Problem-based learning Education for sustainability Sustainability competencies Generally speaking, the initial thoughts about...

... sustainability competencies. Using a pre/post self-assessment, participants (n = 32) selected their level of confidence and competence in each of the key sustainability competencies and completed open-ended questionnaires. Quantitative data were analyzed using a Mann–Whitney U test, and qualitative data...

...Sonya Remington-Doucette; Sheryl Musgrove Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a classroom assessment aimed at determining the extent to which five key sustainability competencies develop in students during an introductory transdisciplinary sustainability course...

...Sonya M. Remington‐Doucette; Kim Y. Hiller Connell; Cosette M. Armstrong; Sheryl L. Musgrove Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the results of a classroom assessment aimed at determining the extent to which key sustainability competencies develop in students during an introductory...