Educational Sustainability for Transforming Education: A New Approach of Active Learning in an Interdisciplinary Program in Higher Education

Abstract

Educational sustainability has acknowledged the value of transformation, which offers an opportunity of researching and rethinking how appropriate and successful educational practices in an active learning environment could help prepare students for jobs that do not yet exist. So, to meet the job market needs, it became essential to focus on designing more context-specific programs where interdisciplinary courses are provided. The interdisciplinary courses are based on integrating different disciplines where there is a blur between the borders of the disciplines to shift the focus from structured courses to cooperation with external entities. In addition, the interdisciplinary programs allow students to choose modules from across subjects and encourage cooperation with staff from different departments. Thus, the purpose of this chapter is to present a framework of how transformation in education requires key drivers such as transformational visions, faculty commitments, students' engagement, resources (i.e. curriculum), and external relations to develop the values and competencies that the future professionals will need in the attempt to make decisions aiming at reaching a more sustainable world.

Citation

Elsayary, A. and Baroudi, S. (2023), "Educational Sustainability for Transforming Education: A New Approach of Active Learning in an Interdisciplinary Program in Higher Education", Lytras, M.D. (Ed.) Active and Transformative Learning in STEAM Disciplines (Emerald Studies in Active and Transformative Learning in Higher Education), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 25-39. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-618-420231002