RT journal article
T1 Approaches to teaching and learning for sustainability: Characterizing students' perceptions
A1 García González, Esther María
A1 Jiménez Fontana, Rocío
A1 Azcárate Goded, María del Pilar
A2 Didáctica
K1 sustainability
K1 social and environmental problems
K1 teacher training
K1 teaching methods
K1 learning methods
AB Sustainability needs to become part of the training of prospective teachers as they will be responsible for educating future generations from this perspective. In this regard, the study objective was to determine the perceptions of a group of Master’s degree students in Education about today’s social and environmental problems and about the concept of sustainability, and to identify their teacher-training needs in Education for Sustainability. The results are intended to help improve the framework of teacher training through the integration of sustainability. The study context was that of Master’s courses in Secondary Education Teacher Training and in Educational Research for Teachers’ Professional Development. The study design was exploratory, descriptive, and interpretive, with mixed qualitative and quantitative data analysis. The sample comprised 116 graduate students. For data collection, an ad hoc questionnaire was used which had previously been validated by experts in sustainability. The results reflected a superficial perception of sustainability that was linked to the environmental dimension. This could have been a reflection of the participants’ lack of knowledge concerning today’s main social and environmental problems. The participants’ principal demands with respect to their training were to deepen their knowledge about these problems and about methods they could use to include sustainability in their future classes.
PB Elsevier
SN 0959-6526
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30210
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/30210
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 13-nov-2026