Integrating the SDGs into econometrics teaching: An application of the education-research-sustainability learning approach

Abstract

[EN] This article proposes a teaching innovation aimed to deepen the education-research-sustainability teaching strategy by integrating the major challenges facing the planet as set out in the United Nations’ SDGs. Thus, the teaching process acquires a professional identity that integrates teaching and research through the interrelation between teaching in the classroom, the analysis and measurement of the SDGs and the research that the teaching staff has been carrying out in this area. This framework is applied to the teaching of econometrics in the different degrees offered by the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). Results show that the teaching methodology has been supported by the opinion of the students, who state that the teaching methodology proposed has contributed to consolidating the knowledge acquired, has encouraged teamwork, participation in the classroom and has fostered the students' interest in the subject and the SDGs.