Providing an enabling environment to promote the Sustainable Development Goals: Coventry University’s experience

Jaliyyah Bello; Selina Fletcher; Mojtaba Ammari-Allahyari

doi:10.35241/emeraldopenres.13866.1

Providing an enabling environment to promote the Sustainable Development Goals: Coventry University’s experience

Jaliyyah Bello, Selina Fletcher, Mojtaba Ammari-Allahyari

School of Economics, Finance and Accounting

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

186 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

Higher Education Institutions provide a vital role in providing education towards solving sustainability issues. Hence, the adoption of development agendas, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the SDG Accord, into curriculum. As a signatory of the sector SDG Accord, Coventry University Group has the responsibility of providing an enabling environment to promote the achievement of the Goals. This article introduces a model for embedding the goals into curriculum; with creative teaching practice and enriching student experience at the centre to the approach taken. The approach considers three dimensions: Staff Development, the Goals within Teaching, and Students' Activities.

Original language	English
Number of pages	10
Journal	Emerald Open Research
Volume	2
Issue number	58
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13866.1
Publication status	Published - 7 Sept 2020

Bibliographical note

Copyright: © 2020 Bello J et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Keywords

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Higher Education
Education for Sustainable Education
Sustainability

Access to Document

10.35241/emeraldopenres.13866.1Licence: CC BY

PublishedFinal published version, 827 KBLicence: CC BY

Cite this

@article{ef2ef74a25a34b92abd8101203eb938b,

title = "Providing an enabling environment to promote the Sustainable Development Goals: Coventry University{\textquoteright}s experience",

abstract = "Higher Education Institutions provide a vital role in providing education towards solving sustainability issues. Hence, the adoption of development agendas, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the SDG Accord, into curriculum. As a signatory of the sector SDG Accord, Coventry University Group has the responsibility of providing an enabling environment to promote the achievement of the Goals. This article introduces a model for embedding the goals into curriculum; with creative teaching practice and enriching student experience at the centre to the approach taken. The approach considers three dimensions: Staff Development, the Goals within Teaching, and Students' Activities.",

keywords = "Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Higher Education, Education for Sustainable Education, Sustainability",

author = "Jaliyyah Bello and Selina Fletcher and Mojtaba Ammari-Allahyari",

note = "Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2020 Bello J et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.",

year = "2020",

month = sep,

day = "7",

doi = "10.35241/emeraldopenres.13866.1",

language = "English",

volume = "2",

journal = "Emerald Open Research",

issn = "2631-3952",

publisher = "F1000Research",

number = "58",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Providing an enabling environment to promote the Sustainable Development Goals

T2 - Coventry University’s experience

AU - Bello, Jaliyyah

AU - Fletcher, Selina

AU - Ammari-Allahyari, Mojtaba

N1 - Copyright: © 2020 Bello J et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

PY - 2020/9/7

Y1 - 2020/9/7

N2 - Higher Education Institutions provide a vital role in providing education towards solving sustainability issues. Hence, the adoption of development agendas, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the SDG Accord, into curriculum. As a signatory of the sector SDG Accord, Coventry University Group has the responsibility of providing an enabling environment to promote the achievement of the Goals. This article introduces a model for embedding the goals into curriculum; with creative teaching practice and enriching student experience at the centre to the approach taken. The approach considers three dimensions: Staff Development, the Goals within Teaching, and Students' Activities.

AB - Higher Education Institutions provide a vital role in providing education towards solving sustainability issues. Hence, the adoption of development agendas, such as the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through the SDG Accord, into curriculum. As a signatory of the sector SDG Accord, Coventry University Group has the responsibility of providing an enabling environment to promote the achievement of the Goals. This article introduces a model for embedding the goals into curriculum; with creative teaching practice and enriching student experience at the centre to the approach taken. The approach considers three dimensions: Staff Development, the Goals within Teaching, and Students' Activities.

KW - Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

KW - Higher Education

KW - Education for Sustainable Education

KW - Sustainability

U2 - 10.35241/emeraldopenres.13866.1

DO - 10.35241/emeraldopenres.13866.1

M3 - Article

SN - 2631-3952

VL - 2

JO - Emerald Open Research

JF - Emerald Open Research

IS - 58

ER -

Providing an enabling environment to promote the Sustainable Development Goals: Coventry University’s experience

Abstract

Bibliographical note

Keywords

Access to Document

Fingerprint

Cite this