Improvements in Chinese higher education will mean little unless 바카라사이트 country’s universities embrace a global obligation to educate students in sustainable development, a conference has heard.
In a heartfelt address to?온라인 바카라’s inaugural China Universities Forum, Gong Ke, president of 바카라사이트 World Federation of Engineering Organisations, said that educators were duty-bound to infuse learners with 바카라사이트 skills of sustainable development.
In a panel session exploring 바카라사이트 steps required to ensure teaching excellence in China, Professor Gong said that 바카라사이트 topic implied a focus on 바카라사이트 future. “The question is, do we have a future as humanity? We are facing serious problems around 바카라사이트 sustainability of humankind. If we really want a future, 바카라사이트 only way out is sustainable development,” he said.
Citing former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-Moon, Professor Gong said that 바카라사이트 current generation was 바카라사이트 first with 바카라사이트 opportunity to end poverty and 바카라사이트 last that could end climate change.
He said that universities had a role in both objectives, with 바카라사이트 fourth of 바카라사이트 UN’s 17 sustainable development goals – “quality education” – mandating education in sustainability not only for 바카라사이트 environment but also “lifestyles, human rights, gender equality…global citizenship and appreciation of cultural diversity”.
“The world will be a better place in 2030 if we succeed in our objectives,” Professor Gong told 바카라사이트 forum. “But we have not fulfilled this important task as it is required.”
Sustainability’s three dimensions – economic, societal and environmental – necessitated comprehensive, multi-disciplinary solutions, Professor Gong said. “Our universities have not carried out such comprehensive education courses as required by 바카라사이트 UN agenda,” he warned.
He said forum host Nankai University, where he is former president, had attempted to rectify this through its new Institute for Ecological Civilisation. Academics from departments as diverse as politics, law, environmental engineering, chemistry, history and information technology have jointly fashioned a course on sustainable development, which has been posted online.
Within a semester, almost 36,000 students across China have undertaken 바카라사이트 course, with about 96 per cent completing 바카라사이트 assessment. Nankai has also established an educational consortium for sustainable development involving more than 160 Chinese higher education institutions. “We still lack international cooperation,” Professor Gong noted.
He said that a tendency to treat science as “discretes” was hampering sustainable development education, which required a vision of disciplines as diverse as physics, chemistry, biology, anthropology and social sciences as “a chain that cannot be broken”.
“Unfortunately, today, 바카라사이트 chain is broken,” he said. “A very important task for us is to link 바카라사이트 chain and support sustainable development.”
Professor Gong’s four-step challenge for China’s universities starts with boosting education in sustainable development, promoting interdisciplinary collaboration and training 바카라사이트 trainers. “We have to train every teacher to engage in 바카라사이트 education of sustainable development and to merge [it] into different courses,” he said.
“Finally, we have to change 바카라사이트 paradigm of teaching to unify thinking and doing.”
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