Postgraduate Students’ Attitudes about Sustainable Development Goals: A Case Study of Delphi Method

Abstract

In the context of growing concern over the sustainability issues, the purpose of this paper is to shine light on the attitudes of postgraduate students about sustainable development, and its 17 urgent goals. The authors chose postgraduate students as an example of educated expert group in order to evaluate their levels of acquired knowledge at the Master studies and to point out the importance of the role of properly formally educated working citizens for the sustainable development of every country. In order to evaluate postgraduate students’ attitudes we used the Delphi method. We suggested the usage of the Delphi method, having in mind that a lot of authors agree that this method has high applicability for sustainability foresight, as well having in mind the fact that it is one of the best-known qualitative methods of forecasting in the long run, especially when quantitative methods are not adequate, as it happened when debating on sustainable development, its goals and the possibilities of their achievement. The obtained results of our research have an important role in giving necessary feedback in the process of improving the curriculum of courses that are developed on a wide scale of scientific and practical knowledge of science about sustainable development.