Enseñanza de la Arquitectura y Educación para el desarrollo sostenible en España. Experiencia académica en grado y resultados de aprendizaje del alumnado del Máster Universitario en Arquitectura

Abstract

Architectural education has been called to become education for sustainable development to empower future professionals to make conscious decisions and act responsibly in favour of environmental quality, social justice and an equitable and viable economy in the long term. To achieve this, it is essential to understand what is being done and what can be improved in its transformation towards this type of education: Are architects being trained so that they can promote the achievement of sustainable development? Are the characteristics necessary to do so being integrated into education? To what extent does their qualifying training contribute to attaining it? However, there are gaps in knowledge on that subject at the national and international levels.As a response to this situation, and to facilitate the integration of education for sustainable development in the training of future architects, the main objective of this doctoral thesis is (MO) to know the students' perception regarding the current state of the Spanish qualifying academic program constituted by a bachelor's and a master's degree concerning education for sustainable development. To that end, four specific objectives have been established: (SO1) to determine the degree to which they consider that they have acquired the learning outcomes required to achieve sustainable development, (SO2) to establish the level at which they think that their bachelor's learning experience has integrated the characteristics of this type of education, (SO3) to estimate the level at which they believe that this learning experience has contributed to acquiring the assessed learning outcomes, and (SO4) to analyse the relationship between the degree acquisition that they attribute to these learning outcomes and the level of integration of the characteristics of education for sustainable development that they assign to the bachelor's learning experience.To achieve objectives SO1, SO2 and SO3, a descriptive, quantitative, nonexperimental and cross-sectional study has been carried out through surveys created ad hoc addressed to students from the Spanish Master's Degree in Architecture (Máster Universitario en Arquitectura) through a non-probabilistic sampling. Its distribution has allowed knowing the perception that 282 students from 19 of the 22 schools of architecture that offered these studies during the academic year 2020/2021 have in this regard. In addition, to achieve the specific objective SO4, a correlation and a regression analysis of these responses have been developed.