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Shirin Betzler; Regina Kempen – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Designing effective educational measures constitutes a key area of action for achieving global sustainability goals. Therefore, the present study examined a training addressing sustainable consumption practices in plastic reduction, fashion and food. An interactive training was held in a German comprehensive high school with grade 11 students,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Students, Sustainable Development, Plastics
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de Waard, Esther F.; Prins, Gjalt T.; van Joolingen, Wouter R. – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2020
Sustainability has become a prominent theme in society and can be considered as an integral part of scientific citizenship. This study investigates to what extent the production, use and re-use of (bio)plastics initiates students' reasoning and to identify the kind of content knowledge students put forward. The structure of students' arguments was…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Sustainability, Plastics, Knowledge Level
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Burmeister, Mareike; Eilks, Ingo – Chemistry Education Research and Practice, 2012
This paper describes the development and evaluation of a secondary school lesson plan for chemistry education on the topic Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). The lessons focus both on the chemistry of plastics and on learning about the societal evaluation of competing, chemistry-based industrial products. A specific teaching method was…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Plastics, Action Research, Chemistry