IJPCE www.ijpce.org International Journal of Physics and Chemistry Education, 9(1), 1-7 ISSN: 1306-3049 Introduction Incorporating Sustainability in Higher Chemistry The years of 2005 to 2014 were announced by the United Nations as the Decade of Education Education in Indonesia through Green Chemistry: Sustainable Development (DESD). Governments from all over the world as well as other stakeholders were called to incorporate the values related to sustainable development into every Inspirations by Inquiring the Practice one of their educational programs (UNESCO, 2011). There are many different routes to sustainability which were mentioned in the Agenda 21, the official document of the 1992 Earth in a German University summit, and education is one of these routes (UNCED, 1992). Of course, while education in itself cannot achieve sustainable development, learning about sustainability is suggested to be a Nina Hamidah key aspect to achieve this goal (UNESCO, 2016). State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and University of Bremen, Germany With the threat of global climate change, environmental pollution and decreasing resources, a call
[email protected] for a movement toward more sustainable practices emerged. It is imperative that we, as a global Susy Yunita Prabawati society, have to change the way we live and strive to be more aware of our personal actions State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia (Klingshirn & Spessard, 2009). All over the world we see developmental gaps occurring among
[email protected] different countries. However, with every country’s government recognizing the significance of Imelda Fajriati science and technology for national development, the role of chemistry and chemistry education State Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga, Yogyakarta, Indonesia for sustainability justifies itself to be of importance (Bradley, 2005; Burmeister & Eilks, 2013).