Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) is a public medium size university, based in Madrid, Spain. It was established in 1968. UAM has 33,633 students (23,249 undergraduate, and 10,373 postgraduate) and 2368 teaching staff. It has a long tradition in contributing to sustainability in its teaching, research, and campus operations. This chapter presents the results from 158 student responses. The main focus of the university is on the environmental dimension which is the most addressed, followed by the social one. The ranking of the competences shows that Anticipatory thinking and Systems thinking were ranked the highest. The ranking of the pedagogical approaches resulted in Lecturing, Case studies, and Project- or problem-based learning being ranked the highest. The three competences most developed by pedagogical approaches were Strategic action, Assessment and evaluation, and Personal involvement. The three pedagogical approaches that developed the most competences were Traditional ecological knowledge, Place-based environmental education, and Supply chain/life cycle analysis. The results can provide insights into how to improve and complement the online sustainability course and better embed sustainability into UAM’s teaching in all its faculties.

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Sustainability Competences and Pedagogical Approaches at the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid

  • Javier Benayas

摘要

Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) is a public medium size university, based in Madrid, Spain. It was established in 1968. UAM has 33,633 students (23,249 undergraduate, and 10,373 postgraduate) and 2368 teaching staff. It has a long tradition in contributing to sustainability in its teaching, research, and campus operations. This chapter presents the results from 158 student responses. The main focus of the university is on the environmental dimension which is the most addressed, followed by the social one. The ranking of the competences shows that Anticipatory thinking and Systems thinking were ranked the highest. The ranking of the pedagogical approaches resulted in Lecturing, Case studies, and Project- or problem-based learning being ranked the highest. The three competences most developed by pedagogical approaches were Strategic action, Assessment and evaluation, and Personal involvement. The three pedagogical approaches that developed the most competences were Traditional ecological knowledge, Place-based environmental education, and Supply chain/life cycle analysis. The results can provide insights into how to improve and complement the online sustainability course and better embed sustainability into UAM’s teaching in all its faculties.