Factors Affecting on Outspread of Sustainable Higher Education from Viewpoints of Students (Case Study: College of Agriculture Sciences, Bu-Ali Sina University) | ||
| پژوهش مدیریت آموزش کشاورزی | ||
| Article 5, Volume 11, Issue 48, August 2019, Pages 57-74 PDF (672 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research Paper | ||
| DOI: 10.22092/jaear.2019.125101.1592 | ||
| Authors | ||
| yaser mohammadi* 1; feizullah Monavvarifard2; laleh salehi3; reza movahedi4 | ||
| 1Assistant professor of agriculture extension & education department, College of agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. | ||
| 2Ph.D of Agricultural Education, Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources University of Khouzestan, Ahvaz, Iran. | ||
| 3Assistant professor of agriculture extension & education department, college of agricultural and natural resources, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran. | ||
| 4Associate professor of agriculture extension & education department, college of agriculture, Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Universities have a moral responsibility for increasing social awareness, knowledge, skills, and values to creating a sustainable future. However, integration sustainable development issues in higher education structure remains in its early stages and faces many challenges. Therefore, identify factors that affecting on outspread of sustainable higher education are an undeniable fact to achieve to sustainable higher education and overcoming challenges facing the university to achieve sustainability. From 1810 individual of statistical population, 189 students were selected as sample using stratified random sampling (based on gender and degree). A researcher-made questionnaire was the main tool for collecting research data which experts confirmed its validity, and its reliability confirmed by calculating the ordinal theta (θ = 0.83 – 0.91). Data were analyzed using SPSSWin20 and R software. The findings of exploratory factor analysis revealed that seven factors include commitment to sustainability, knowledge, education for sustainability, cooperation and participation, attitude towards sustainability, support from top-managers of university and infrastructures, and organizational culture affecting on university’s activities to achieve to sustainable higher education. Results of ordinal regression indicated that the identified factors are good predictor for outspread of sustainable higher education and in total explained about 52.1% of variances of Sustainable higher education. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Sustainable Higher Education; Commitment of Universities’ Managers to the Sustainable Development; Education for Sustainable Development; Attitude toward Sustainability | ||
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