Using Andragogy to Educate for Sustainability: Considerations for a Graduate Program in Landscape Science

Abstract

Public institutions of higher education have the unavoidable commitment to make scientific, humanistic, and technological knowledge generated, a public good. The duty of public educational institutions is to develop sustainable projects with different sectors of society in order to reflect their particular historical characteristics, their culture, and their needs. The most important responsibilities of universities are create habits, skills, and abilities (teaching), generate knowledge (research), and disseminate it to the rest of society by creating environmental awareness (extension). This latter aspect has special significance, since according to the substantive functions of the university and purpose of doctoral programs is that the information generated is applied in the sectors of society that demanded . This paper discusses the educational model called Andragogy, which upholds university expectations with great success to respond to societal issues.

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Virtual Lightning Talk

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Sustainability Education

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educate human rights

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