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Baena-Morales, Salvador; González-Víllora, Sixto – Sport, Education and Society, 2023
The sustainability requirements of the planet in recent years have made it necessary for everyone to reflect on new lifestyles. For this purpose, the United Nations has established an agenda for change organised into 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that claim to be achieved by 2030. The demands of this sustainable development are organised…
Descriptors: Physical Education, Sustainable Development, Climate, Holistic Approach
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Yuko Ohira – International Journal of Comparative Education and Development, 2024
Purpose: Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has been robustly endorsed through policy mechanisms, prompting numerous context-specific voluntary initiatives in Japanese schools and communities. However, this field remains in its infancy. This study aimed to investigate the literature on ESD in Japan to reveal research trends, identify…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Teaching Methods, Educational Resources
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Ashraf Alam; Atasi Mohanty – Cogent Education, 2024
In this scientific investigation, the researchers have designed and developed a new model "The Framework of Self-Regulated Cognitive Engagement" (FSRCE) that integrates self-regulated learning (SRL) and cognitive engagement (CE), addressing the limitations of previously developed frameworks. The FSRCE model is guided by core principles,…
Descriptors: Holistic Approach, Sustainable Development, Goal Orientation, Self Efficacy
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Eleni Sinakou; Vincent Donche; Peter Van Petegem – Environmental Education Research, 2024
Teachers' instructional beliefs and interests in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) are related to holistic, pluralistic, and action-oriented instructional practices in ESD teaching. To explore this hypothesis, we examine teachers' ESD teaching profiles based on their instructional beliefs, interests, and instructional practices in ESD.…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Teaching Methods, Interests
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Saleem, Atif; Aslam, Sarfraz; Sang, Guoyuan; Dare, Philip Saagyum; Zhang, Tianxue – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2023
Purpose: This study aims to understand the practices and perceptions of education for sustainable development (ESD) in the university classrooms of Malaysia, exploring how holistic, pluralistic and action-oriented approaches to ESD were linked to their knowingness, attitudes and behavior regarding sustainability. Design/methodology/approach: The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Behavior, Sustainability
European University Association, 2021
The 2020 EUA Learning & Teaching Thematic Peer Group on "Environmental sustainability of learning and teaching" discussed how learning and teaching can embrace and promote sustainability, and whether existing approaches to learning and teaching are sustainable. This paper presents the group's findings, which aim to promote and guide…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Teaching Methods
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Esra Bayhantopcu; Ignacio Aymerich Ojea – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: Academic institutions have the power to generate positive change by implementing sustainable development initiatives. This study aims to make a holistic assessment of the universities' sustainability practices by explicitly focusing on equality and communication and by providing a general model for a university sustainability structure.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Administrators, College Administration
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Pablo Aránguiz-Mesías; Guillermo Palau-Salvador; Jordi Peris-Blanes – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to explore how young students experience the contribution of a pedagogical assemblage based on design thinking (DT) while contributing to the transition to a more just and sustainable university. Design/methodology/approach: This qualitative research considers the case of two pedagogical experiences developed at…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Faculty, Sustainable Development
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Nimrod Aloni; Wiel Veugelers – Educational Philosophy and Theory, 2024
In two different occasions in the twentieth century John Dewey and Maxine Greene stressed the point that educators should attend to 'what the known demands of us'. Following this dictum, from a critical perspective and with a constructive pedagogical spirit, in this paper we portray a new paradigm for values education that addresses the major…
Descriptors: Activism, Educational Philosophy, Teaching Methods, Humanism
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Saphia Zenasni; Tom Emile Kuppens; Joost Vaesen; Jill Surmont; Iris Stiers – Education and Urban Society, 2024
This conceptual paper explores the characteristics of education for sustainable development (ESD) within urban secondary schools. Despite the discourse about the importance of sustainability, there has been a lack of research on this topic. The authors employed theory synthesis, which resulted in a concept for Education for Sustainable Development…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Urban Schools, Intercultural Communication, Cultural Pluralism
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Schröder, Laura-Marie U.; Wals, Arjen E. J.; van Koppen, C. S. A. (Kris) – Environmental Education Research, 2020
This research investigates the state of student participation in the Eco-Schools programme in two selected secondary schools located in Spain and the Netherlands. The focus is on understanding the levers of student participation and of the factors leading to a whole-school approach. Engeström's Second Generation Activity Systems Model is used as…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Student Participation, Cultural Differences, Teaching Methods
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Uhrqvist, Ola; Carlsson, Lisa; Kall, Ann-Sofie; Asplund, Therese – Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, 2021
We communicate, relate, educate and make our world meaningful through stories. Stories are integrated in and are a part of every sustainability issue. In this article, we develop the concept of sustainability stories, and how they can be assessed and developed to correspond with the intentions of education for sustainable development (ESD).…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Story Telling, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development
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Galvão, Cecília; Faria, Cláudia; Viegas, Wanda; Branco, Amélia; Goulão, Luís – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: This paper aims to understand if a project work methodology proposed to students, based on an inquiry perspective and dealing with different dimensions of sustainable development, contributed to creating an interdisciplinary solution for a problem on sustainability challenged by food production and consumption, and also to understand if…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Sustainable Development, Agricultural Production
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Sinakou, Eleni; Donche, Vincent; Boeve-de Pauw, Jelle; Van Petegem, Peter – Environmental Education Research, 2021
Holistic and pluralistic instructional beliefs and instructional practices in Education for Sustainable Development are often considered of high importance to foster students' competences. This mixed-method study describes the development and the validation of the Holism-Pluralism in Education for Sustainable Development questionnaire (HPESD-Q) to…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Questionnaires, Teacher Attitudes
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De Angelis, Romina – Journal of Transformative Education, 2018
This article proposes a theoretical framework for research and pedagogy development in the context of education for sustainable development (ESD). It combines transformative learning theory with elements drawn from Buddhist and other Eastern spiritual perspectives. Firstly, it outlines the ESD context and its current gaps. Secondly, it analyzes…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Buddhism, Teaching Methods, Sustainable Development
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