Sustainability-Oriented Higher Education: Pedagogical Innovation, Professional Learning and Inclusive Academic Futures
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2027 | Viewed by 65
Special Issue Editors
Interests: education for sustainability; higher education; learning and teaching; learning and teaching strategies; questioning; development of student competences; curriculum development; non-linear careers; teacher professional development
Interests: education for sustainability; higher education; learning and teaching; learning and teaching strategies; development of student competences; assessment and evaluation; curriculum development; teacher professional development
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue aims to examine how higher education can foster more sustainable, inclusive, and transformative futures through pedagogical innovation, professional learning, and institutional change. It welcomes theoretical, empirical, methodological, and practice-based contributions addressing sustainability-oriented pedagogies, curriculum design, assessment practices, teacher education, pedagogical supervision, lifelong learning, and professional development across diverse higher education contexts.
A particular focus will be the relationship between sustainability and inclusion. Contributions may address flexible, digital, blended, online, asynchronous, or face-to-face learning environments; the needs of adult learners and professionals returning to education; non-linear academic or professional pathways; gendered dimensions of academic work; care responsibilities; temporal inequalities; and institutional conditions that support sustained participation in higher education.
This Special Issue will therefore bring together work on sustainability, pedagogy, professional development, and inclusion, contributing to a broader understanding of higher education as a space for sustainable transformation—not only in what it teaches, but also in how it teaches, who it includes, and what kinds of academic and professional futures it makes possible.
Dr. Patrícia Albergaria-Almeida
Dr. Marta Abelha
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- higher education
- sustainability-oriented education
- pedagogical innovation
- professional learning
- teacher education
- inclusive academic futures
- flexible learningacademic trajectories
- gender and care
- qualitative inquiry
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