Cultivation of Undergraduates’ Sustainable Development Capacity in the Universities of China

Abstract

Education plays the role of inheriting traditional culture and fostering modernism, cultivates many postmodernists, too. Education for sustainability can decide an energetic and hopeful future; also promote a new kind of revolution in the education thought and education practice. Undergraduates' sustainable development ability has plasticity, initiative, continuity and integrity. The cultivation of undergraduates' sustainable development ability should focus on four dimensions including the individual value and social value, teaching methods, curriculum and subject, structure and organization. Universities and students are the main factors that influence and restrict the sustainable development ability of college students. Colleges and universities must develop a student-centered approach to learning and teaching, and take the students’ demands as orientation, fully play the leading role in teaching, cultivate the subjectivity consciousness and sustainable development ability of college students.