HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article
Front. Educ.
Sec. Leadership in Education
Volume 10 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/feduc.2025.1652510
This article is part of the Research TopicUniversity Education for Sustainable Development: Challenges and OpportunitiesView all 15 articles
Promoting Ecological Citizenship at the University Level
Provisionally accepted
- University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
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This review article analyses the role of the university in the promotion of ecological civic responsibility as an educational response to the global challenges of sustainability due to the present-day environmental crisis. By means of a documentary review of the main international conferences, regulatory frameworks and scientific literature on environmental education and sustainable development, it examines the policies and practices to be implemented in the university area. The results show growth in the integration of sustainability in academic programs and in models for sustainable campuses. It proposes various innovative pedagogical methodologies such as blended learning, character education, service-learning, and some of the emerging digital media like podcasting which promote ethical, critical and participatory learning. And it concludes that higher education must accept an active cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary commitment to sustainability, thereby producing citizens capable of leading social and environmental transformations from the perspective of the ethics of care, responsibility and democratic participation.
Keywords: Sustainability1, ecological civic responsibility2, university3, citizenship education4, environmental education5
Received: 23 Jun 2025; Accepted: 26 Sep 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Arbués, Celaya and Naval. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Iñaki Celaya, icelaya@unav.es
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