Title: The role of sustainability in university curricula: trend analysis and research agenda

Authors: Luis F. Garcés-Giraldo; Diana C. Velasco-Cardona; Juan Camilo Patiño-Vanegas; Alejandro Valencia-Arias; Jhennifer Rojas-Arias; Waldo Albarracín Sánchez

Addresses: Escuela de Posgrados, Universidad Continental, Lima, Perú ' Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Institución Universitaria Colegio Mayor de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia ' Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Instituto Tecnológico Metropolitano, Medellín, Colombia ' Vicerrectoría de Investigación e Innovación, Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile ' Coordinación de Investigaciones, Institución Universitaria Marco Fidel Suárez, Medellín, Colombia ' Instituto de Investigación y Estudios de la Mujer, Universidad Ricardo Palma, Chiclayo, Peru

Abstract: The development of society, at present, has demanded an increasingly robust analysis of sustainability, in social, ecological, economic, political and educational spheres, the latter being key for the design of sustainable curricula by educational institutions of higher education. However, in the literature there are limited articles that consolidate existing knowledge, so the objective is to identify trends in research on the role of sustainability in university curricula. For this, a bibliometric analysis is carried out based on the PRISMA parameters. Among the main findings, the authors Lozano R and Azeiteiro UM are determined as the academic references, and that have allowed identifying the trends of the subject towards sustainable development and its incidence in the teaching-learning processes, which, in turn, it demands inter and multidisciplinary analysis, as emerging concepts that need future research.

Keywords: sustainable development; PRISMA declaration; teaching-learning; environmental engineering; education.

DOI: 10.1504/IJEED.2025.143617

International Journal of Education Economics and Development, 2025 Vol.16 No.1/2, pp.172 - 187

Received: 05 Sep 2023
Accepted: 11 Dec 2023
Published online: 02 Jan 2025 *

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