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Sara Brommesson; Anders Jönsson; Iann Lundegård; Elisabeth Einarsson – Environmental Education Research, 2025
This study uses the Swedish Science Studies course to examine teaching approaches in sustainability education. Science Studies is an interdisciplinary course that aims to educate scientifically literate and active citizens, who are committed to environmental care and sustainability. Based on a survey of 155 teachers, the study explores the…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Social Studies, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Fröberg, Andreas; Wiklander, Petter; Lundvall, Suzanne – Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 2023
In this paper, we add to the literature by exploring how sustainable development (SD) and sustainability-oriented learning, are reflected in the Swedish compulsory school and upper secondary school physical education and health (PEH) syllabi. The source of data was the PEH syllabi and the commentary material, as produced by the Swedish National…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Course Descriptions, Elementary Secondary Education, Outdoor Education
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Petter Wiklander; Andreas Fröberg; Suzanne Lundvall – Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 2024
Purpose: Literature suggest that physical education and health (PEH) may contribute to the sustainable development (SD) agenda, yet little is known how PEH teachers relate SD to their teaching practices. This paper explores Swedish upper secondary PEH teachers' experiences and perceived competence regarding teaching SD as part of PEH. Method: An…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Health Education, Teacher Attitudes, Foreign Countries
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Niklas Pramling; Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2025
This study presents the research that Pramling Samuelsson's keynote at the 32nd annual EECERA conference in Brighton 2024 drew upon. The study addresses an important but understudied feature of early childhood education and care for sustainability (ECECfS), namely engaging children in prospective or what-if thinking. Our reasoning is founded on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Reading Aloud to Others, Imagination
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Häggström, Margaretha – Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
This article presents a six-week long action research study in two primary school classes, with the aim of exploring how a Storyline approach can facilitate learning and acting on sustainability issues, and how this approach might enhance pupils' agency. This study is underpinned by and analyzed through theories of relational pedagogy, in which…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Teaching Methods
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Persson, Christel; Einarson, Daniel; Melén, Maria – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to address how a higher education pedagogical course in sustainable development (SD) for university educators affects their teaching efforts in providing sustainability matters for students. Design/methodology/approach: With the aim of improving that course, a case study approach was used to understand how the educators…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Case Studies
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Gericke, Niklas; Torbjörnsson, Tomas – Journal of Environmental Education, 2022
This article centers on a local school reform project aimed at implementing a transformative approach to Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The study investigates the project in terms of how the design criteria of a continuous professional development program and critical factors of the implementation process influenced the actual…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Environmental Education, Educational Change, Faculty Development
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Hofverberg, Hanna; Westerlund, Stina – International Journal of Art & Design Education, 2021
Design and craft education, like that of the Swedish school subject, Sloyd, has great potential for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). With so many possibilities, it is relevant to investigate what teachers teach about sustainability, and how. Therefore, the aim of this article is to examine what Sloyd teachers express that they do as…
Descriptors: Design Crafts, Handicrafts, Art Education, Art Teachers
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Olsson, Daniel; Gericke, N.; Boeve-de Pauw, J. – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This study revisits the seminal question of the effectiveness of education for sustainable development (ESD) by using a novel longitudinal approach. Scholarly attention in the past decade has been increasingly directed towards the concept of action competence for sustainability. However, little is still known about the effects of ESD as a teaching…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Sustainable Development, Longitudinal Studies, Teaching Methods
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Bryant, Jayne; Ayers, James; Missimer, Merlina; Broman, Göran – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: Transformative learning (TL) and leadership are key leverage points for supporting society's transition toward sustainability. The purpose of this study is to identify essential components of TL within an international sustainability leadership master's program in Sweden that has been described by many students as life-changing,…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Alumni, Masters Programs, Leadership Training
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Gelinder, Lolita; Hjälmeskog, Karin; Lidar, Malena – Environmental Education Research, 2020
Home and Consumer Studies (HCS) is a subject in the Swedish compulsory school that has sustainability issues clearly enrolled in its syllabus. Among other things, students should learn to make sustainable food choices, i.e. they should understand the consequences concerning health, finance and environment of what food they choose to consume. The…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Food, Epistemology, Decision Making
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Boeve-de Pauw, Jelle; Olsson, Daniel; Berglund, Teresa; Gericke, Niklas – Environmental Education Research, 2022
This longitudinal quantitative study investigated teachers' development of self-efficacy and teaching practices relating to education for sustainable development (ESD) in four compulsory schools in a Swedish municipality. The teachers participated in a professional development program over three school years designed to support them in…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Educational Practices, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
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Ojala, Maria – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Transformative learning is important for handling climate change. How to include this kind of learning in formal education is, however, still debated. This article takes a bottom-up approach by learning from young people who make climate-friendly food choices to a high degree. Interviews were performed with Swedish adolescents. By focusing on…
Descriptors: Food, Climate, Transformative Learning, Decision Making
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Hipkiss, Anna Maria; Windsor, Sally; Sanders, Dawn – Ethnography and Education, 2020
This article uses vignettes and photographs taken from ethnographic research to reframe the methodological assumptions within school garden research. New theoretical perspectives are applied to previous empirical school garden research that provides deeper understandings of both the teaching and the learning of ecoliteracy in such material…
Descriptors: Gardening, Vignettes, Photography, Ethnography
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Biström, Elin; Lundström, Ragnar – Environmental Education Research, 2021
This article examines the affordances and limitations of textbooks for promoting action competence for sustainable development. Based on a content analysis of Swedish lower secondary level textbooks in geography and biology, we investigated how content about sustainable development is organised and formulated, the ways its multidimensional…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Content Analysis, Secondary School Students, Biology
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