Generic Skills in Sustainability in Higher Education. Fix and Build
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This article presents a review of generic competences in sustainability in Higher Education, and provides a compilation of these sustainability competences, as an instrument to facilitate their assessment in the university studies and degrees. The adaptation context to assess through competences that has been proposed by the European Higher Education Area (EHEA), along with the global crisis in which we find ourselves, challenges us to provide undergraduates with a competence-based sustainability awareness so that they are able to solve the numerous challenges they will encouner in their professional fields. This important task of assessing generic competences in sustainability is not easy because it involves two new paradigms for college teaching: on the one hand, the adaptation to the new educational model that follows a competence-based assessment; and on the other hand, the development of a sustainable awareness that leads us to create a better world to future generations. This study is a review of skills in sustainability of the academic literature and we propose a compilation of generic competences in sustainability in order to facilitate their assessment. Drawing on the contributions of experts, we present a compilation of competencies and sub-competencies or indicators, in order to offer a specific tool that allows us to assess sustainability in any university degree.
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