Education for Sustainable Development in the context of higher education in Bolivia. Perceptions of university professors

Abstract

Sustainable development is, now a days, one of most fundamental guiding principles in Education in general, and constitutes a task and challenge for higher education in particular. Higher Education for Sustainable Development (HESD) aims to transmit knowledge and develop competences, values and attitudes that empower and motivate students to actively contribute to sustainable development. The present empirical study was carried out on the status quo of education for sustainable development (EDS) in the context of Bolivian higher education. In the focus of the study were different structural elements of the teaching-learning process, analyzed from the perspective of the university professors. These were personal, curricular, methodological and finally structural and institutional aspects of the learning process. The results are an effort to operationalize the ESD in university education, with the ultimate goal of generating new perspectives for its conceptualization, implementation and institutionalization in the context of Bolivian higher education.

Keywords

• educación para el desarrollo sostenible
• investigación empírica
• educación superior
• educación universitaria