Eine Plattform für die Wissenschaft: Bauingenieurwesen, Architektur und Urbanistik
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Social Sustainability in Education: An Insight into the Civil Engineering Curricular
Social sustainability is one of the essential elements in construction towards achieving sustainable construction. Education plays a vital role in expanding the notion of sustainability. However, the education system has often overlooked the dimension of social sustainability, particularly in civil engineering (CE) curricular. The CE curricular in previous studies have shown limited depth and lack of explicit discussion on the implementation of social sustainability in construction. Therefore, this study explores the incorporation of the social dimension in the CE curricula of an undergraduate program as part of a pilot study in distinguishing the state of social sustainability studies in the CE curricular. This study has employed the questionnaire survey to gather responses from both students and lecturers of a selected organisation, with 320 total respondents for students and four lecturers. The findings show that students and lecturers struggle to understand the concept of social sustainability. Even though the Program Outcome (PO) already stated on social sustainability, however, the implementation still lacking. The findings indicate that social sustainability education needs to be built on a theoretical foundation. It is envisaged that the results from this study would be able to highlight the current contents of social sustainability that have been incorporated in the CE curricular. This would further distinguish whether the current education system is on a similar pathway along with the industry towards sustainable construction.
Social Sustainability in Education: An Insight into the Civil Engineering Curricular
Social sustainability is one of the essential elements in construction towards achieving sustainable construction. Education plays a vital role in expanding the notion of sustainability. However, the education system has often overlooked the dimension of social sustainability, particularly in civil engineering (CE) curricular. The CE curricular in previous studies have shown limited depth and lack of explicit discussion on the implementation of social sustainability in construction. Therefore, this study explores the incorporation of the social dimension in the CE curricula of an undergraduate program as part of a pilot study in distinguishing the state of social sustainability studies in the CE curricular. This study has employed the questionnaire survey to gather responses from both students and lecturers of a selected organisation, with 320 total respondents for students and four lecturers. The findings show that students and lecturers struggle to understand the concept of social sustainability. Even though the Program Outcome (PO) already stated on social sustainability, however, the implementation still lacking. The findings indicate that social sustainability education needs to be built on a theoretical foundation. It is envisaged that the results from this study would be able to highlight the current contents of social sustainability that have been incorporated in the CE curricular. This would further distinguish whether the current education system is on a similar pathway along with the industry towards sustainable construction.
Social Sustainability in Education: An Insight into the Civil Engineering Curricular
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Belayutham, Sheila (Herausgeber:in) / Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam (Herausgeber:in) / Alisibramulisi, Anizahyati (Herausgeber:in) / Mansor, Hazrina (Herausgeber:in) / Billah, Muntasir (Herausgeber:in) / Kordi, Nurul Elma (Autor:in) / Belayutham, Sheila (Autor:in) / Che Ibrahim, Che Khairil Izam (Autor:in) / Nor Shahrudin, Nur Shuhada (Autor:in)
International Conference on Sustainable Civil Engineering Structures and Construction Materials ; 2020
07.04.2022
13 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch
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