Mainstreaming education for Sustainable Development as foundation for RCE Greater Gombak Community through Sejahtera Academic Framework: the case of UNGS 1201

Universities' formal curriculum are getting more complex and course as the world's issues are getting more complicated and interconnected. In response to this demand, some subjects have the purpose of knowledge for the society. In some cases, the subjects are very commercially driven with...

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Main Author: Sanusi, Zainal Abidin
Format: Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Sejahtera Centre for Sustainability and Humanity (SCSH), IIUM 2021
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/105943/1/1.3.4%20Mainstreaming%20Education%20for%20Sustainable%20Development%20as%20Foundation%20for%20RCE%20Greater%20Gombak%20Community%20through.pdf
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Summary:Universities' formal curriculum are getting more complex and course as the world's issues are getting more complicated and interconnected. In response to this demand, some subjects have the purpose of knowledge for the society. In some cases, the subjects are very commercially driven with minimal attention given to the values that need to be inculcated through the subjects. In preparing students to be an agent of change towards a sustainable society reorientation of existing education especially its course content and pedagogy is needed to humanise the curriculum so that it can bring back the original purpose of universities and education itself.