Integrating Sustainable Development Goals in educational institutions

Abstract

This research contributes to the achievement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through Education, a growing area of research, by means of a systematic review of the literature on Education and SDGs. A total of 160 articles published over the past 10 years were obtained and compared. This made it possible to identify the top contributing and most influential authors, countries, papers and research findings, together with the challenges facing current research.

Based on these results, this work provides a thorough insight into the field by (1) proposing six research categories and their future research directions, and (2) proposing a framework to guide academic institutions in the integration of SDGs in their activity. The framework makes it possible to incorporate the vision of the different stakeholders that constitute the learning community in order to generate a global strategy for continuous improvement, to implement it through action plans, and to measure and evaluate the results.