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2020 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Enhancing Student Engagement in a Sustainability Class: A Survey Study

Authors : Liguang Liu, Lianhong Gao

Published in: Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Student engagement in the classroom influences learning outcomes. As part of the initiatives towards higher education for sustainable development (HESD), it is important to create general education courses that focus on sustainability and is open to all majors and grades. It is also important to conduct and assess pedagogical practices to increase student engagement in such courses. Taking teaching of a sustainability course at the Central University of Finance and Economics in China as a case, this paper provides an assessment of the factors that influence student engagement in the classroom. By combining survey results of students’ perceptions and teachers’ reflections on engagement, this chapter suggests approaches of enhancing student engagement by absorbing students’ contributions, improving communication and pedagogy and adopting a whole-institution approach.

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Footnotes
1
Project 211 is a national university project initiated in 1995 by the Ministry of Education in China, with the intent of raising the research standards of high-level universities and cultivating strategies for socio-economic development. The project includes 112 HEIs up to the mid-2000s.
 
2
Project 985 was launched in May 1985 to promote the development and reputation of the Chinese higher education system. Till Project 985 closed its door for entry in 2011, it includes 39 universities from the list of Project 211 universities.
 
3
The full sponsored university and discipline list of the Double First-Class Plan was published in September 2017, including 42 first class universities (36 Type A schools and 6 Type B schools) and 465 first class disciplines (spread among 140 schools including the first-class universities).
 
4
There are only four valid samples from the third-year undergraduate group.
 
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Metadata
Title
Enhancing Student Engagement in a Sustainability Class: A Survey Study
Authors
Liguang Liu
Lianhong Gao
Copyright Year
2020
Book
Universities as Living Labs for Sustainable Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-030-15603-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-15604-6

Copyright Year: 2020

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15604-6_20