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      Sustentabilidad y Universidad: retos, ritos y posibles rutas Translated title: Sustainability and the university: Challenges, rites and possible routes

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          El artículo reporta las dificultades que enfrenta el proceso de inserción de la sustentabilidad en las universidades iberoamericanas. Se recupera la discusión conceptual sobre la sustentabilidad en la región, así como los desafíos derivados de las demandas de la sociedad, del Estado y las presiones del mercado global. El punto focal está puesto en la manera en que suelen ejecutarse los pronunciamientos de las instituciones de educación superior (IES). Las principales dificultades están caracterizadas por un conjunto de declaraciones y de planes que quedan en un plano meramente formal. Asimismo, aplicamos la metáfora del "techo de cristal" -adoptada en los estudios de género- para representar la barrera que impide hacer cambios sustantivos y estructurales.

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          The article reports the challenges facing the sustainability addition process in Ibero-American universities. We recover the conceptual discussion about region sustainability and the arising challenges from the society and state demands, and global market pressures. The focus is placed on how often these higher education institutions pronouncements are being held. The main difficulties are characterized by a set of declarations and plans that remain in a purely formal level. We apply the glass ceiling metaphor -adopted for genre studies- to represent the barrier towards substantive and structural changes. We emphasize that universities do not seem to be able to address many challenges, especially inserting sustainability into its structure, operation and substantive functions.

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                Journal
                resu
                Revista de la educación superior
                Rev. educ. sup
                Asociación Nacional de Universidades e Instituciones de Educación Superior (México, DF, Mexico )
                0185-2760
                September 2015
                : 44
                : 175
                : 69-93
                Affiliations
                [01] orgnameUniversidad Veracruzana orgdiv1Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación egonzalezgaudiano@ 123456gmail.com
                [03] orgnameUniversidad Veracruzana orgdiv1Instituto de Investigaciones en Educación cymartinez@ 123456uv.mx
                [02] orgnameUniversidad de Santiago de Compostela orgdiv1Grupo de Investigación en Pedagogía Social y Educación Ambiental pablo.meira@ 123456usc.es
                Article
                S0185-27602015000300004 S0185-2760(15)04417500004
                10.1016/j.resu.2015.09.002
                3ff7c664-02cb-4d03-a02c-5039a587ae36

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

                History
                : 03 September 2015
                : 22 May 2015
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                Figures: 0, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 55, Pages: 25
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                Universities,Glass ceiling,Ibero-American,Sustainability,Techo de cristal,Iberoamérica,Universidades,Sustentabilidad

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