Definition
It is the process of integrating sustainability dimensions into existing curricula, transforming contents and teaching practices in order to ensure the formation of alumni that possess the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and social values to understand and face the challenges of sustainability. According to Jacobi (2003), sustainability implies attitudes and actions to impose limits to the possibilities of growth and to propose a set of alternatives that consider the existence of interlocutors and social participants capable of transforming the realities in which they live. These transformations can be done through educational practices and a process of informed dialogue, which reinforces a sense of care, responsibility, and constitution of ethical values (Jacobi 2003).
Introduction
Several authors have been studying Curriculum Environmentalization (CE) in Higher Education teaching processes. Although it is considered as a process capable of integrating socio-environmental and...
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Kitzmann, D., Mota, J.C. (2019). Curriculum Reform and Sustainability: Theoretical Affinities and Difficulties for Their Implementation in HEIs. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sustainability in Higher Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63951-2_70-1
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