DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE COMPLIANCE OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WITH THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

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Published: Oct 31, 2024

  Viktoriia Khrutba

  Inessa Rutkovska

  Anna Kharchenko

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to develop and test in practice a systematic approach to assessing the compliance of educational programs of universities with the goals of sustainable development of the United Nations. The systematic approach includes the development of a sequence of development and approval of a questionnaire to determine the degree of compliance of educational programs of universities with the goals of sustainable development. Methodology. The survey was based on a comparison of the data of three groups of respondents (developers of educational programs and their curators at three levels of higher education). Approbation of the approach took place on the basis of the National Transport University (Kyiv, Ukraine). In total, 64 curators and developers of educational programs took part in the survey (this is 60% of educational programs of NTU). The results of the survey showed that educational program developers understand the importance of including the tasks of the United Nations Development Program in separate educational components or modules of disciplines in order to form relevant competencies in students. However, respondents noted the need to review educational programs and their components, as well as the educational process in the context of compliance with the goals of sustainable development and its ecologization. Practical implications. The results of this research will be used during the regular review of educational programs and their components at the National Transport University, and will also serve as a basis for further improvement of the concept of sustainable development of the NTU. The research data can be distributed to other universities. Also, the research results will be used in the project the Transformational Learning Network for Resilience – Enabling Ukrainian higher education to ensure a sustainable and robust reconstruction of (post-war) Ukraine (TransLearnN). The results of this study will contribute to the development of the program of sustainable development of universities in Ukraine. Value / Originality. The obtained results will make it possible to determine prospective directions for improving the educational process and educational programs of universities, taking into account the goals of sustainable development and trends in the ecologization of education.

How to Cite

Khrutba, V., Rutkovska, I., & Kharchenko, A. (2024). DEVELOPMENT OF A SYSTEMATIC APPROACH TO ASSESSING THE COMPLIANCE OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS WITH THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS. Green, Blue and Digital Economy Journal, 5(2), 21-30. https://doi.org/10.30525/2661-5169/2024-2-3
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Keywords

sustainable development goals, environmental knowledge, educational programs, higher education, evaluation of educational programs

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