TechnoLearn: An International Journal of Educational Technology
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue: 1and2

Sustainable development in academics by incorporating it as professional practice

Associate Professor, Jain University, Bangalore, India

*Corresponding author: jlakshmi.research@gmail.com

Online published on 17 July, 2021.

Abstract

Many organizations are working towards sustainable environment practices in their professional and personal livelihood for making country the best. Efforts are put to facilitate these prevailing conditions by balancing moral, social, economic and environmental challenges. People are facing many challenges in their daily routine to habituate themselves towards unhealthy practices in every aspect of living. Certainly, it is essential for educating young minds by broadening the awareness on sustainability. By implementing sustainable development into the graduate curriculum across universities addresses problems of various disciplines such as political science, sociology, geography, economics, ecology and environment sciences. This article proposes to introduce sustainable development as a core course curriculum. Various areas of study are given as elective papers with multiple themes and students need to implement these practices as a capstone project by the end of the term.

Keywords

Sustainable, Learning, Curriculum, Development, Academics, Professional