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Category: Management for sustainable development in transitional economies

Last Updated on 06 November 2015

Published on 06 November 2015

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V.Ya. Shvetz, Dr. Sci. (Econ.), Professor, Higher Educational Institution “National Mining University”, Head of the Department of Management of the Industrial Sphere, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

D. Palekhov, Cand. Sci. (Law), PhD, Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg, Coordinator of the PhD Programme “Environmental and Resource Management”, Germany.

М. Schmidt, Dr.-Ing., Dr. h.c., Professor, Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU) Cottbus-Senftenberg, Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Process Engineering, Germany.

L.L. Palekhova, Cand. Sci. (Econ.), Associate Professor, Higher Educational Institution “National Mining University”, Senior Lecturer of the Marketing Department, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Abstract:

Purpose. This article aims to describe theoretical and methodological approaches and provide practical recommendations for implementing principles of sustainable development into the education process at universities for non-environmental study programmes.

Methodology. Conclusions and recommendations in this article were made based on the contemporary scientific views regarding the tasks of the university education system to promote ideas of sustainable development among the society. They considered the main principles behind the reform of the higher education system in Ukraine and were supported by an analysis of results of the international project on ‘greening’ university curricula conducted at the National Mining University.

Findings. This article specified the mission and aim of the higher education in promoting ideas and principles of sustainable development. The authors contrasted the processes of education in environment-related study programmes and ‘ecologisation’ of the non-environmental study programmes. It was revealed that the process of ecologisation of the university education is related to a significant extent to the process of ‘greening’ the curricula of non-environmental study programmes. This article gave a definition for the ‘green’ curriculum, analysed the main approaches towards ecologisation of university curricula and evaluated the potential of each of them in the context of Ukraine. The authors identified the barriers to the complete realisation of the multidisciplinary principle and transition to the interdisciplinary ecologisation of the study programmes’ curricula. Finally, directions for the development and a set of measures for the systematic transition to the ‘green’ model of higher education were suggested.

Originality. In this article, forms and methods for ‘greening’ the curriculum of non-environmental study programmes at institutions of higher education were scientifically reasoned. The suggested approach was based on such principles as development of the interdisciplinary basis for curricula, integration of formal and informal forms of education, participatory approach towards management of the education process.

Practical value. Realisation of the conclusions and recommendations would contribute towards approximation of the quality of the university education in Ukraine towards the requirements of European and international standards in this field.

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Shvetz, V., Palekhova, L., Palekhov, D. and Ivannikhov, A. (2014), “Implementation of ideas of sustainable development into economics curriculum”, Economic Bulletin of the National Mining University, no. 2, pp. 114–119.

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