Purpose: The study aimed to measure the perception of prospective vocational education (VE) students in Indonesia toward the sustainable development of VE. Additionally, it sought to evaluate the implications of these perceptions for improving the quality of VE and preparing superior human resources to meet future demands.…

From June 2023 to April 2024, CLASP and the National Collaborative for Transformative Youth Policy provided technical assistance to community advocates in three localities: Charleston, SC, Gulfport, MS, and Tulsa, OK. Our goal was to increase access to equitable school-based mental health services. We used Community-Based System Dynamics to…

Sustainable visibility remains a challenge for cross-curricular literacy (CCL) initiatives such as writing across the curriculum (WAC) programs. The university community must be able to access relevant information, and they need to know how to participate. CCL program websites are a commonplace way to meet these needs, but research on CCL website…

This study explores the interplay between grit (individual perseverance) and ground (cultural grounding) in the academic experiences of marginalized scholars, emphasizing the role of cultural sustainability in fostering resilience and success. The research highlights the structural barriers scholars face through qualitative narratives, including…

This paper critically reflects on how transformative learning (TL) is described both conceptually and as a process in the literature in different fields and national contexts. We articulate a definition of TL and justify why geography education is an ideal vehicle for enabling it. This is followed by a series of case studies explaining how TL can…

This research delves into how educational renewable energy (RE) is perceived within Arab society. The research group consists of parents of middle school students who studied renewable energy in the Israeli science teaching curriculum. It posits three hypotheses, two of which were upheld, and one was refuted. The study highlights low-to-moderate…

Background/purpose: Food security is a critical global issue intensified by climate change, economic pressures, and geopolitical instability, resulting in disrupted food supply chains and increased food prices. Research-based learning in nature schools offers innovative approaches to fostering food security awareness through immersive experiences…

Offering a fresh perspective on sustainability in the realm of Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), "Promoting Transformative Practices for Sustainability in Early Childhood Education and Care" invites educators, policymakers and researchers to rethink how young children's engagement with sustainability extends beyond nature…

Despite chemistry's recognized importance to multiscale industrial and environmental processes, first-year undergraduate chemistry is often regarded as comprising a collection of unconnected topics with little relevance to everyday life. Implementing systems thinking into the chemistry curriculum can help to contextualize chemistry learning and…

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the perceived sustainable supervisory relationships between supervisors and postgraduate international students at a research university in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on a qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with 33 international postgraduate students and 10 academic…

In this article, the author analyzes environmental pedagogy in the Norwegian curricula for environmental and sustainability education from 1997 to 2020. The author investigates how climate-striking youth evaluate the outgoing curricula through a survey in which 88 respondents participated. The survey reveals that young climate activists demand a…

Background: This study was the first attempt to investigate the status of implementation and sustainability of early childhood positive behavior support (PBS) via the lens of implementation science for community-based child care centers in a Midwest state of the United States. Objective: Obtain state-level data and gain insights on PBS…

Chemistry and innovations have long been coexisting in the classroom and are essential criteria for assessment. Chemistry entrepreneurship is the art of commercializing chemistry innovations and ideas to a wider audience, taking them beyond classroom and assessment. The innovative ideas when realized with social relevance show prospects for…

The aim of this study, which was in a qualitative research design, is to reveal the perceptions of education administrators working in higher education institutions about the concept of sustainability through metaphors. The phenomenological model, which is based on the individual's describing a conscious experience of a phenomenon, and in which…

The purpose of this research was to inform best practices for creating institutional self-assessments for measuring financial sustainability. The project took place at a small tuition-dependent college that will be referred to as ABC College. Participants and data collected in Cycle 1 of this action research project consisted of a series of seven…