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Integration of sustainable development in higher education's curricula of applied economics: Large-scale assessments, integration strategies and barriers

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  • Ceulemans, Kim
  • De Prins, Marijke
  • Cappuyns, Valérie
  • De Coninck, Wouter

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The attention for sustainable development (SD) is ever growing (Van Poeck, Vandenabeele, & Bruyninckx, 2009). Although the importance of SD integration in higher education (HE), both on strategic and operational level, is often stressed, actual measurements of this integration are less frequent. Therefore, a large scale assessment was set up to assess SD integration within 33 professionally and academically oriented programs of applied economics in a total of 22 Flemish HE institutions. The integration of SD in applied economics programs is crucial for society, among others because business students are our future managers (Ceulemans & De Prins, 2010). The interrelations between different SD integration strategies and the barriers to them were also studied in this research, leading us to a new concept, where two different dimensions of SD integration are combined. From the research we can conclude that an SD integration approach that combines horizontal and vertical integration with bottom-up and top-down seems to be the most beneficial for sustained SD integration efforts.

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  • Ceulemans, Kim & De Prins, Marijke & Cappuyns, Valérie & De Coninck, Wouter, 2011. "Integration of sustainable development in higher education's curricula of applied economics: Large-scale assessments, integration strategies and barriers," Journal of Management & Organization, Cambridge University Press, vol. 17(5), pages 621-640, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jomorg:v:17:y:2011:i:05:p:621-640_00
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