Stratégies d’action pour l’intégration du développement durable à la formation postsecondaire

• Main Authors: Véronique Bisaillon, Alain Webster
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Éditions en environnement VertigO 2013-01-01
• Series: VertigO
• Subjects: Education; institutions; pedagogy; collaboration; sustainable development; curriculum
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/vertigo/13193

With financial support from the ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport du Québec, two universities and five colleges in Québec are developing a project toward the integration of sustainable development to college and university education. In this project, the integration of sustainable development into teaching follows four levels : the support to professors, the integration into the programs, the institutional level and finally, the regional collaboration between institutions which is pecular to this project. This article is advocating an integrated strategy with variable geometry, meaning a strategy that, on the one hand, recognizes the expertise of professors in their field while implementing structuring actions throughout programs and establishments and allowing for institutional contexts. It appears that the integration of sustainable development to student education is not only accomplished through pedagogical activities, peri-academic and extracurricular activities but is also embodied in the overall student experience on campus. Sustainable development’s main stake is to grow into an institutional culture in which teaching, research and management activities mutually reinforce each other, all while strengthening community relations.