Systematic review of socio-environmental responsibility in sustainable higher education institutes
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https://doi.org/10.56294/saludcyt2025954Keywords:
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW, SOCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONSAbstract
The study examines how Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) address environmental social responsibility highlighting the importance of training professionals committed to society and sustainable development. The research underlines the importance of HEIs assuming an active role in the formation of individuals aware of their environment and committed to socio-environmental responsibility by considering responsible teaching and learning practices, resulting from a systematic review based on the PRISMA 2020 methodology, with the search of articles published in the Scopus database, obtaining an initial result of 785 scientific documents, to later carry out a process of exclusion of articles, resulting in the final phase a total of 66 documents for analysis, finally three analyses of co-authorship, co-occurrence and co-citation with the authors' database were carried out
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