STATE OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA

An important part of the general agreement on the importance of education in achieving the goals of sustainable development also refers to the function and responsibility of the University. In this context, in recent years, much attention has been paid to advancing the process of integrating sustainability in universities, which is accompanied by the adoption of a transformative approach, linking theoretical with practical discourse and exploring new applications within and between scientific disciplines. The paper will present the concept of sustainable development in the context of education, with special emphasis on the presentation of education for sustainable development in the educational systems of Serbia. The focus of the paper is the analysis of the state of sustainable development in academic education in our country. The aim was to examine the extent to which education for sustainable development is represented at the faculties of social sciences and humanities of the University of Serbia. The selected methodology was based on the content analysis of the curriculum and syllabus with interviews with professors and assistants of selected faculties. Given that professors have been identified as bearers of education for sustainable development, the key to educating students for sustainable development is, and must be, in the education and continuous training of pedagogical staff in this field.