Towards an orientation of higher education in the post Rio + 20 process: How is the game changing? |
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| Institution: | 1. Technology Foresight Group, Department of Management, Science and Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;2. Office of Sustainability, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;3. Futures Studies Research Institute, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;4. Centre for Sustainable Development, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium;5. Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Department, Materials and Energy Research Center (MERC), Tehran, Iran;6. Systems Ecology & Resource Management Lab, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium;7. Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences, Hamburg, Germany;1. VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Koivurannantie 1 PL 1603, 40 101 Jyväskylä, Finland;2. Department of Chemistry, Renewable Natural Resources and Chemistry of Living Environment, University of Jyväskylä, POB 35, FI-40014 Jyväskylä, Finland;3. Valmet Power, Lentokentänkatu 11, FI-33101 Tampere, Finland;4. Stora Enso Newsprint and Book Paper, Anjalankoski Mills, FI 46900 Anjalankoski, Finland;1. Planning, Governance & Development, Faculty of Extension, University of Alberta, Jasper Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2R3, Canada;2. Wageningen University, Droevendaalsesteeg 4, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands;3. Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Walter-Flex-Str. 3, 53113 Bonn, Germany;4. Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Str. 2, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany;5. University of Antwerp, Stadscampus, S.M.238, Sint-Jacobstraat 2, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium;1. Technology Foresight Group, Department of Management, Science and Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;2. Centre for Postnormal Policy and Futures Studies, London, United Kingdom;3. School of Social Sciences, University of The Sunshine Coast, Sunshine Coast, Australia;4. Office of Sustainability, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;5. Department of Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine, Faculty of Advanced Technologies in Medicine, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess the implications of sustainable development for the future orientation of higher education, especially after the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio + 20). A qualitative trend analysis is being used for this purpose, in the context of which three macro trends are combined: (1) higher education that has been developed via five periods; (2) sustainable development that has evolved through three stages; and (3) the nexus between sustainable development and higher education which has strengthened through three phases. The simultaneous analysis of the macro trends regarding their possible interactive effects (through an expert panel discussion) demonstrates that higher education and universities under the influence of sustainable development elements are entering into a new era in which the function of “higher education for sustainable development” could be interpreted as the seeds of a newly emerging mission for universities. In this regard, it is expected that the concept of “sustainable university” is likely to become more common to meet the emerging mission. Consistent with the Rio + 20 outcomes, the authors analyzed the concept of “sustainable university” and identified the fact that it is practically divided into three interrelated and complementary categories, namely social-, environmental-, and economic-oriented university in pursuit of actualizing sustainable development. |
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| Keywords: | Higher education Sustainable development Future Sustainable university |
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