Abstract:
There has been a great deal of acceptance of the importance of higher education in achieving the goal of sustainable development. Integrating sustainability in teaching and learning of undergraduate construction courses has been a challenging and pressing issue in higher education for over a decade. However, to date, not much has been done to incorporate sustainability into the curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the concept of sustainability education and its related international movements in promoting education for sustainable development. A variety of declarations and programmes have enabled the concept of sustainability to be incorporated in the curriculum of higher education. However more initiatives are needed if sustainability education is to develop at tertiary level. This paper also discusses the obstacles preventing the success of sustainability education and a case study is used to demonstrate the approach of sustainability teaching and learning in practice.
