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COVID-19: the impact of a global crisis on sustainable development teaching
Leal Filho, Walter Price, Elizabeth Wall, Tony Shiel, Chris Azeiteiro, Ulisses M. Mifsud, Mark Brandli, Luciana Farinha, Carla Sofia Caeiro, Sandra Lange Salvia, Amanda
Leal Filho, Walter
Price, Elizabeth
Wall, Tony
Shiel, Chris
Azeiteiro, Ulisses M.
Mifsud, Mark
Brandli, Luciana
Farinha, Carla Sofia
Caeiro, Sandra
Lange Salvia, Amanda
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2021-01-06
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global crisis, one which also influences the ways sustainability is being taught at universities. This paper undertakes an analysis of the extent to which COVID-19 as a whole and the lockdown it triggered in particular, which has led to the suspension of presence-based teaching in universities worldwide and influenced teaching on matters related to sustainable development. By means of a worldwide survey involving higher education institutions across all continents, the study has identified a number of patterns, trends and problems. The results from the study show
that the epidemic has significantly affected teaching practices. The lockdowns have led to a surge in the use of on-line communication tools as a partial replacement to normal lessons. In addition, many faculty teaching sustainability in higher education have strong competencies in digital literacy. The sampled higher education educations have -as a
whole- adequate infrastructure to continue to teach during the lockdowns. Finally, the majority of the sample revealed that they miss the interactions via direct face-to-face student engagement, which is deemed as necessary for the effective teaching of
sustainability content. The implications of this paper two-fold. Firstly, it describes how sustainability teaching on sustainable development has been affected by the lockdown. Secondly, it describes some of the solutions deployed to overcome the problem. Finally, the paper outlines the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic may serve the purpose of showing how university
teaching on sustainability may be improved in the future, taking more advantage of modern information technologies.
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Leal Filho, W, Price, E., Wall, T., Shiel, C., Azeiteiro, U., Mifsud, M., Brandli, L., Farinha, C. S., Caeiro, S., Lange Salvia, A., Vasconcelos, C. R. P., de Sousa, L. O., Pace, P., Doni, F., Avila, L., Fritzen, B., & LeVasseur, T. J. (2021). COVID-19: The impact of a global crisis on sustainable development teaching. Environment, Development and Sustainability, 23, 11257–11278. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10668-020-01107-z
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Springer
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Environment, Development and Sustainability
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10.1007/s10668-020-01107-z
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1387-585X
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1573-2975