Sustainability in professional education
Gap between strategy and program plans?
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https://doi.org/10.7577/formakademisk.3955Keywords:
STAUNCH, Goodlad, sustainability, strategy, program plansAbstract
Education is a key to long lasting changes in society. In the present study, theory from sustainability and education is used to examine the education of product designers, teachers and engineers at the Faculty of Technology, Art and Design (TKD) in light of OsloMet's overall strategy on welfare and sustainability. The empirical data is based on learning outcome descriptions from the program plans for 2019 and 2020 for these professional educations and is analysed on the basis of the Goodlad and STAUNCH categories. All the analysed professional educations have integrated sustainability in their program plans. Sustainability is most clearly articulated in the program plan for Product Design. However, this does not mean that sustainability is unarticulated for teacher- and engineering educations. These educations are governed by National Curriculum Regulations where sustainability is described at a national level. However, the environmental perspective is more clearly articulated in the programme plans at the institutional level than the economic- and social perspective on sustainability.
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