Assessing Cardiff University’s Curricula Contribution to Sustainable Development Using the STAUNCH(RTM) System

Rodrigo Lozano and Ken Peattie
Additional contact information
Rodrigo Lozano: Rodrigo Lozano is a lecturer in Corporate Sustainability at the Sustainability Research Institute, University of Leeds, UK and Managing Director of Organisational Sustainability Ltd, U.K. Email: R.Lozano@leeds.ac.uk
Ken Peattie: Ken Peattie is the director of BRASS, and also professor of Marketing and Strategy at Cardiff Business School, which he joined in 1986. Email: Peattie@Cardiff.ac.uk

Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2011, vol. 5, issue 1, 115-128

Abstract: This article presents the results of the sustainable development curricula assessment undertaken at 19 of the 28 schools of Cardiff University using the Sustainability Tool for Assessing UNiversity’s Curricula Holistically (STAUNCH (RTM) . STAUNCH (RTM) was developed with two objectives: (1) to systematically assess how and the extent to which a university’s curricula contributed to education for sustainable development (ESD) by assessing its modules, degrees and schools, and (2) to facilitate consistent and comparable as-sessment efforts capable of handling a large quantity of modules and of being applied across multiple institutions. STAUNCH(RTM) follows four steps: (1) criteria selection, (2) data collection, (3) data input and grading against the selected criteria, and (4) analysis and results of degrees, schools and the university’s contribution to sustainable development (SD). The results from the assessment show that currently SD in the curricula is being addressed mainly through portfolio approaches, where each school focuses on its discipline or areas of disciplines, but fails to connect with the broader SD context through inter- and transdisciplinary perspectives. The results from this research could be used by other universities to look for ways to better integrate SD into their curricula, and thereby be-come better aligned with the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD).

Keywords: Curricula assessment; assessment tool; Cardiff University; ESD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (2)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097340821000500114 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:jousus:v:5:y:2011:i:1:p:115-128

DOI: 10.1177/097340821000500114

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Journal of Education for Sustainable Development
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().