Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM
Sustainable cities are formed by sustainable communities and vice versa. Developing sustainable cities and sustainable communities need individuals who are taught about the principles, criteria and elements of sustainable development (SD) and sustainability, and have been ‘bred’ in sustainable env...
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| author | Zubaidah Mohd Nasir, Mashitoh Yaacob, Halimaton Saadiah Hashim, |
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| description | Sustainable cities are formed by sustainable communities and vice versa. Developing sustainable cities and sustainable
communities need individuals who are taught about the principles, criteria and elements of sustainable development (SD)
and sustainability, and have been ‘bred’ in sustainable environments at least during the students’ years in sustainable
campuses. To enable the university students to learn about and practice sustainable SD, all courses must be integrated
with SD elements. Therefore, the understanding and willingness of lecturers to integrate SD principles and elements in
their courses is very vital. The purpose is to discuss the relationship between social science lecturers’ understandings
towards SD concept and their beliefs in integrating this concept into their own courses in Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia (UKM). Lecturers’ understandings of SD concept and beliefs in integrating the concept into the courses are
important because they can facilitate the implementation stage of integrating SD concept into various courses at the
university. Statistically, the results of this study indicated that the relationship between lecturers’ understandings
towards SD concept and their beliefs in integrating the concept into social science courses is significant at p<0.05.
Unfortunately, the relationship showed a very low level of strength, which is 0.22. However, the qualitative results
showed that several lecturers illustrated a very high level of belief in integrating SD concept into their courses even
though they do not fully understand the concept. Thus, the findings suggested that training should be implemented
for social science lecturers to enhance their level of understanding towards SD concept and explore the appropriate
teaching approach in integrating this concept into the courses. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:124212018-12-10T23:21:20Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12421/ Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM Zubaidah Mohd Nasir, Mashitoh Yaacob, Halimaton Saadiah Hashim, Sustainable cities are formed by sustainable communities and vice versa. Developing sustainable cities and sustainable communities need individuals who are taught about the principles, criteria and elements of sustainable development (SD) and sustainability, and have been ‘bred’ in sustainable environments at least during the students’ years in sustainable campuses. To enable the university students to learn about and practice sustainable SD, all courses must be integrated with SD elements. Therefore, the understanding and willingness of lecturers to integrate SD principles and elements in their courses is very vital. The purpose is to discuss the relationship between social science lecturers’ understandings towards SD concept and their beliefs in integrating this concept into their own courses in Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Lecturers’ understandings of SD concept and beliefs in integrating the concept into the courses are important because they can facilitate the implementation stage of integrating SD concept into various courses at the university. Statistically, the results of this study indicated that the relationship between lecturers’ understandings towards SD concept and their beliefs in integrating the concept into social science courses is significant at p<0.05. Unfortunately, the relationship showed a very low level of strength, which is 0.22. However, the qualitative results showed that several lecturers illustrated a very high level of belief in integrating SD concept into their courses even though they do not fully understand the concept. Thus, the findings suggested that training should be implemented for social science lecturers to enhance their level of understanding towards SD concept and explore the appropriate teaching approach in integrating this concept into the courses. Institute of the Malay World and Civilization, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12421/1/IMAN-2017-05SI3-03.pdf Zubaidah Mohd Nasir, and Mashitoh Yaacob, and Halimaton Saadiah Hashim, (2017) Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM. International Journal of the Malay World and Civilisation, 5(SI) (1). pp. 19-25. ISSN 2289-1706 http://www.ukm.my/jatma/jilid-5terbitan-khas-bil-1/ |
| spellingShingle | Zubaidah Mohd Nasir, Mashitoh Yaacob, Halimaton Saadiah Hashim, Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM |
| title | Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into
university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM |
| title_full | Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into
university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM |
| title_fullStr | Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into
university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM |
| title_full_unstemmed | Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into
university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM |
| title_short | Developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into
university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in UKM |
| title_sort | developing sustainable communities by integrating the sustainable development concept into
university courses: social science lecturers’ perspectives in ukm |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12421/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12421/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12421/1/IMAN-2017-05SI3-03.pdf |