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Velda McCune; Jenny Scoles; Sharon Boyd; Andy Cross; Pete Higgins; Rebekah Tauritz – Higher Education Research and Development, 2024
Policy makers increasingly call on higher education to prepare learners for challenges such as global health emergencies or ecological crises. These can be understood as 'wicked problems', which are unbounded, complex and resist simplistic definition. Wicked problems involve stakeholders with incompatible value positions and attempted solutions…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, College Faculty, Undergraduate Study, Humanities
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Marisa Lally; Shadman Islem – Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 2023
The Fulbright Program is the United States' flagship educational exchange program. Since 1946, the program has been heralded as a program that promotes mutual understanding across cultures. However, the Fulbright Program's role as a U.S. Department of State initiative warrants further examination of how this educational exchange program functions…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, International Educational Exchange, Higher Education, Foreign Policy
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Mann, Llewellyn; Chang, Rosemary; Chandrasekaran, Siva; Coddington, Alicen; Daniel, Scott; Cook, Emily; Crossin, Enda; Cosson, Barbara; Turner, Jennifer; Mazzurco, Andrea; Dohaney, Jacqueline; O'Hanlon, Tim; Pickering, Janine; Walker, Suzanne; Maclean, Francesca; Smith, Timothy D. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Problem-based learning (PBL) has a history of producing strong educational results in engineering; however, global society is challenged by highly complex environmental, socio-political and technical problems summarised in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This obliges us to explore educational approaches that address complexity. Yet,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education, Educational Innovation, Holistic Approach
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2022
Results of a questionnaire with a sample of EFL instructors at some Saudi universities showed that the instructors just follow the assigned textbook and do not integrate any global themes in their EFL courses. Therefore, this article aims to proposes a model for integrating global themes in the EFL college classroom, especially in reading and…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, College Faculty
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Mousa, Mohamed – International Journal of Educational Management, 2021
Purpose: Through a multiple case study design, this article elaborates the chances of initiating and/or implementing responsible management education (RME) in Egyptian public business schools after the identification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In other words, this paper identifies the effect of COVID-19 on internalizing RME in the…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Business Schools, Foreign Countries
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Andic, Dunja; Vorkapic, Sanja Tatalovic – Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, 2017
The theoretical framework of the present research is based on the socio-psychological model of sustainable behaviour by Juárez-Nájera (2010). For the purposes of this paper, just part of the research is related to personal norms. The paper provides the results of the awareness of consequences and the attribution of responsibility for…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Teacher Education, Conservation (Environment), Preservice Teachers