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#42 Publication Spotlight: Maya Menon and Marie Paretti on Instructor motivation for sustainable development
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#42 Publication Spotlight: Maya Menon and Marie Paretti on Instructor motivation for sustainable development

European engineering educators · Neil Cooke

December 15, 202536m 14s

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Show Notes

 Although recognised as a priority for engineering education, implementation of Sustainable Development (SD) in curricula has been mixed and limited. 

 

This episode features Marie Paretti from Virginia Tech and Maya Menon from the EdTech startup NextWork. We talk about a paper published in the European Journal of Engineering Education entitled “Understanding instructor decision-making in engineering education for sustainable development: a comparison of institutions in Denmark and the United States” which Maya and Marie co-authored with Jennifer Case and Andrew Katz. The study compared the external, internal (institutional) and individual influences on instructors’ decision-making, in relation to the incorporation of SD into the courses they teach within institutions in two different national contexts.

 

This episode is the second in our series of episodes that take on a new format and are released at intervals along with our normal longer length shows.


For the full paper, follow this link: https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2025.2486189



Timestamps


0.00 Welcome and introduction

0.29 Introduction to the episode an publication

1.25 How the work came about and the research team

3.12 Summary of the work

4.02 The research gap

5.16 The research questions

7.27 Terminology; Sustainability, Sustainable Development and the UN SDGs

10.50 Theoretical underpinnings

13.58 Comparative Case Study Methodology

18.04 Data sources and analysis

21.12 The findings

29:49 Implications for engineering education practice

32.31 Implications for engineering education research

35.23 Goodbyes


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