Which 'sustainable university' are we actually talking about? A topic modelling-assisted discourse analysis of academic literature
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- Maarten Deleye (UGent)
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- The remarkably growing body of academic literature on the university in relation to sustainability pivots around the idea that the university has an important role to play regarding this issue. However, which role this precisely is and what type of university this requires is often left implicit. This article presents an empirical analysis of how the idea of the "sustainable university" - understood as any notions of an existing or desirable future university that engages with sustainability - is discursively constructed in 4584 scientific publications on the topic. Through a combination of a discourse analysis with the content analysis tool topic modelling, three discourses on the sustainable university are discerned: the sustainable higher education institution, the engaged community, and the green-tech campus, providing the groundwork for further research and debate on what the sustainable university could be and should be.
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- Education, Higher education, university, sustainable development, topic modelling, campus greening, discourse analysis, HIGHER-EDUCATION, MANAGERIALISM
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01GRJWDCECRSAWB46KVJYFJ27E
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- Deleye, Maarten. “Which ‘sustainable University’ Are We Actually Talking about? A Topic Modelling-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Academic Literature.” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, vol. 30, no. 4, 2024, pp. 609–30, doi:10.1080/13504622.2023.2167940.
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- Deleye, M. (2024). Which “sustainable university” are we actually talking about? A topic modelling-assisted discourse analysis of academic literature. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, 30(4), 609–630. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2167940
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- Deleye, Maarten. 2024. “Which ‘sustainable University’ Are We Actually Talking about? A Topic Modelling-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Academic Literature.” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH 30 (4): 609–30. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2023.2167940.
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- Deleye, Maarten. 2024. “Which ‘sustainable University’ Are We Actually Talking about? A Topic Modelling-Assisted Discourse Analysis of Academic Literature.” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH 30 (4): 609–630. doi:10.1080/13504622.2023.2167940.
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- 1.Deleye M. Which “sustainable university” are we actually talking about? A topic modelling-assisted discourse analysis of academic literature. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH. 2024;30(4):609–30.
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- [1]M. Deleye, “Which ‘sustainable university’ are we actually talking about? A topic modelling-assisted discourse analysis of academic literature,” ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH, vol. 30, no. 4, pp. 609–630, 2024.
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