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INNOVATIONS IN THE HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY: A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH
| Abstract: Higher education system in Nigeria is in recent time characterized by poor funding, strike actions, financial impropriety in the high places, and insecurity in the campus, rampant cases of examination malpractices and above all high rate of graduate unemployment. The Agenda 21 chapter 36 of the UN Earth Summit (1992) emphasised the importance of orienting education to achieve sustainable development through including more principles, skills, perspectives and values that are quantitative, qualitative, appropriate and relevant to the socio-cultural environment to the school curricula. Many scholars upheld that sustainable development could be guaranteed more when education is customized for individual learners (Zeilberger, 1999; Good, 1999; Huckle and Sterling, 2006). Sustainable Education (SE), Education for Sustainability (EfS) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) are interchangeable terms when describing the practice of teaching for sustainability in order to provide everyone with the opportunity to acquire the knowledge, skills, attitude and values necessary to shape a sustainable future. Therefore there is need to explore innovative approaches higher education could adopt for sustainability which is the thrust of this study. The study adopted a survey research design. Lecturers from the 441 universities in Nigeria constituted the population of the study. Purposeful sampling technique was used to select twenty-five (25) respondents from each of the twelve (12) universities selected for the study giving a total of 600 as the sample size. The instrument for data collection is a researchers-structured questionnaire. Mean score was used for data analysis. Results revealed that curricula programmes, research and community services in higher institutions should be fine tuned to guarantee sustainable higher education system in Nigeria. |
| Keywords: Innovations; Management; Higher Education; Functional Education; Sustainable Development |
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