Educação para a sustentabilidade na gestão estratégica de universidades comunitárias

Abstract

Sustainability is present in the university within the different systems that coexist there, being increasingly taken into account for the actions of teaching, research, extension and university management. Therefore, it is extremely important to research the way in which sustainability exerts influence in the management of universities and in their pedagogical sectors. Especially when it comes to non-state public university, which is the case of community universities, which develop essentially educational actions, such as teaching, research and extension, with notorious excellence in their activities. To this scenario is added its strong vocation and social concern, because community universities are formed from the proactivity of societies where the university resides. The objective of this research is to highlight the elements that allow the integration of the sustainability theme from the perspective of contextual, organizational, curricular and pedagogical dimensions in community universities through strategic management. To do this, first, an analytical framework of contextual, organizational, curricular and pedagogical dimensions was adapted to community universities based on strategic management; Afterwards, to reach the objective of this study, questionnaires and interviews with the managers of the community universities were applied. From this, it was tried to evidence the elements that allow the integration of the sustainability theme from the perspective of the contextual, organizational, curricular and pedagogical dimensions in community universities through strategic management, emphasizing as facilitator of the insertion of the theme the community character of these universities. Finally, it was possible to present possibilities of advancement for the integration of sustainability in community universities from the strategic management, especially as far as Comung's role in actions on the theme is concerned.