Integration of Sustainability in Engineering and Architectural Studies in Spanish Universities

Leire Guerenabarrena-Cortazar, Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri and Ernesto Cilleruelo-Carrasco
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Leire Guerenabarrena-Cortazar: Department of Economics and Management, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48008 Bilbao, Spain
Jon Olaskoaga-Larrauri: Industrial Organization and Management Engineering Department, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48013 Bilbao, Spain
Ernesto Cilleruelo-Carrasco: Industrial Organization and Management Engineering Department, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), 48013 Bilbao, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 14, 1-14

Abstract: The recommendations of the UN and other international bodies on the need to transform university curricula to incorporate sustainability values, content and competencies have met with a warm reception from universities all over the world. However, the actual state of the integration of sustainability in higher education is, in general, somewhat more modest than one would expect. This article proposes a method of measuring the extent of sustainability-oriented curricular change in the Spanish University as a whole and applies it to the degrees in engineering and architecture. The method entails a documentary analysis of the teaching guides related to 1050 subjects. The results obtained do not invite optimism: curricular transformation is slow and insufficient and its results are still incomplete.

Keywords: sustainability; higher education; Spain; curricular transformation; teaching guides; documentary analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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