Sustainability and Scientific Culture: The role of the researcher in the higher education context

Palacios-Serna L.I. · Encuentros (Maracaibo) (2025) · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17172465

Resumen

Higher education is essential for the development of scientific culture and for the achievement of sustainability in the 21st century. Therefore, scientific culture is considered as the set of attitudes about science, which is constantly evolving and promoting social progress. By virtue of the above, the article aims to explore the interrelationship between sustainability and scientific culture in the context of higher education. Methodologically, it is a qualitative research and documentary exploration. Among the main findings, the role of higher education in social and environmental welfare and in the fact of promoting interdisciplinary approaches that connect science with local and global needs, making it a tool for change, of benefit to humanity, aligned with the fulfillment of sustainable development, is highlighted. It is concluded that higher education is a way to consolidate science, where students, teachers and researchers can dignify these spaces, sponsoring social progress.

Instituciones: Universidad Privada Antenor Orrego