The Future of Education

Sustainability is a symbiosis between economic development, human development and the conservation of the environment in the current global context. Sustainable development can also be defined as the set of actions and thoughts that condition the way in which contemporaries meet their needs without exhausting or putting at risk the capacity and resources of future generations to meet their own needs and expectations of quality of life. Beyond a theoretical perspective, Sustainability represents an emerging paradigm of new knowledge production and innovation, which was originally promoted and maintained by UNESCO as a multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary research agenda with a political and social base. Therefore, this document contains a brief review of the literature about the linkage of Higher Education and Sustainable Development or Sustainability. Through Grounded Theory method and from a theoretical sampling, a conceptual exploration guided by semantic networks designed by Atlas.ti software (version 7.5) is accomplished. Discussion is focused on similarities and differences between the concepts of Sustainable Education and Education for Sustainability and the contributions of both to educational field. Conclusions highlight the sociological and epistemological value of sustainability in the university context.

Keywords: Sustainable Education, Sustainability, Higher Education;