Engagement with Sustainable Development in Higher Education Universities as Transformative Spaces for Sustainable Futures

Dr. Mustafa Öztürk  is an Associate Professor of Curriculum and Instruction and an EFL Instructor at Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. He is also an international research fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Futures at Teachers College of Columbia University, New York, USA and a Peace Fellow at Chulalongkorn University, Thailand as a recipient of 2021 Rotary Peace Fellowship. He holds a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Middle East Technical University, Turkey. He completed a non-degree postgraduate study in Learning, Learning Environments and Educational Systems at University of Turku, Finland. He conducted his postdoctoral research at Teachers College of Columbia University on empowering ESD (Education for Sustainable Development) competencies in teacher education. With his research initiatives on ESD, he was awarded the Human Development Research Award by Koç University UNESCO Chair, Turkey. In 2019, he was given the title of AssociateProfessor by Turkish Council of Higher Education owing to his publications and research activities.