Heritage and Sustainable Development | 2026
Authors: Alwaely S.A.; Alzubi M.M.S.; Afif M.R.; Rais L.M.; Alriyami S.M.
DOI: 10.37868/hsd.v8i1.1790
Journal: Heritage and Sustainable Development
Year: 2026
Publisher: Research and Development Academy
Document Type: Article
Open Access: All Open Access; Gold Open Access; Green Open Access
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This paper analyzes how Sustainable professional development (SPD) policies influence heritage knowledge transmission (HKT) amongst teachers in Jordanian state schools with the generational diversity (GD) being tested as a mediating factor. Even though Sustainable professional development has become one of the most important factors in the instructional change and cultural preservation, there is still scant empirical research on the interaction between such policies and the generational dynamics that affect heritage-driven pedagogies in the Middle Eastern context. Quantitative research design was used, and 327 teachers were interviewed using structured questionnaires. Both measurement and structural models were assessed with the help of structural equation modeling (SEM). The findings show that SPD positively and significantly affects both GD and HKT, and that GD is a strong predictor of HKT. Moreover, GD partly moderates the relationship between SPD and HKT, which means that the cooperation between generations boosts the transfer of sustainable policy and professional development into practical heritage knowledge. The model accounts for 46% of the variance in HKT which indicates the significance of considering the generational aspects in professional development models. These results can be added to the existing literature on the topic of cultural sustainability in education and contribute to a more practical application of the ideas of the policymakers in reinforcing the heritage knowledge with the help of the teacher development strategies of the long-term character. © The Author 2026. Published by ARDA. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) that allows others to share and adapt the material for any purpose (even commercially), in any medium with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Cultural sustainability; Educational policy; Generational diversity; Heritage knowledge transmission; Structural equation modeling; Sustainable professional development