Schüler(innen) auf der Suche nach den Wurzeln unserer Umweltprobleme. Umwelthistorische Forschung in technischen Schulen als Beitrag zur Bildung für nachhaltige EntwicklungStudents in Search of the Roots of Our Environmental Problems. Environmental History Research in Technical Schools as a Contribution to Education for Sustainable Development

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-128
Author(s):  
Ulli Weisz ◽  
Simone Gingrich ◽  
Verena Winiwarter ◽  
Franz Radits ◽  
Katharina Soukup-Altrichter ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Technical Schools

scholarly journals Greening of higher education in the Republic of Serbia

Envigogika ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vesna Nikolić ◽  
Jelena Ranitović ◽  
Slobodan Milutinović
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
English Language ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Republic

Nowadays, Serbia is not at a satisfactory level of sustainability due to the well known events that occurred within the past two decades. According to the European Commission, environmental protection is an area in whichSerbiawill have to give its maximum effort to fully meet European standards and the requirements of sustainable development in the future. Poor water quality in some parts of the country, undeveloped systems for waste collection and recycling, illegal dumps, and industrial pollution are some  of the environmental problems affecting the Republic of Serbia. These findings encouraged the authors of the paper to focus on the environmental problems as a dimension of education for sustainable development in Serbian higher education.Regulatory frameworks of higher education and education for sustainable development in theRepublicofSerbiaare presented in the first part of the paper. The second part deals with observations on current staff development within professional education centres, where their abilities to work in the field of environmental protection are discussed. In the third part, an analysis of an autonomous and integrative approach to the environmental safety education is done, and the need and importance of greening higher education curriculum, as the new paradigm in the educational system, is emphasized.In this regard, an analysis of present ecological ideas and content in the syllabus of English language, which is one of the most common courses at Serbian faculties, and which is particularly important in response to the challenges of globalization, knowledge flow, international scientific research and mobility, is performed.Finally, as part of the authors’ concluding remarks, improvements related to the period before the reform of higher education and adoption of a national strategy for sustainable development, are presented. Also, their basic weaknesses and difficulties are described. New directions of the education for environmental protection in higher education, as well as the importance of training higher education lecturers in this area, are shown.

scholarly journals Students’ Environmental Attitudes in the Context of Education for Sustainable Development

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Environmental Attitudes ◽  
Environmental Behavior ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Ecological Education ◽  
The Impact

The results of two empirical studies of environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behavior of students studying in different fields (samples of 230 and 132 students) are considered. The features of ecological representations of students of ecological specialties at the beginning and at the end of vocational training are determined. Comparison of the effectiveness of professional ecological education and biological education as education for sustainable development indicates a more pronounced impact of ecological education on the formation of pro-environmental attitudes and readiness for pro-environmental behavior. The dynamics of the attitude to global environmental changes among students of the Faculty of Ecology is determined: from consumer attitude to nature, which is combined with a relatively strong belief that money is the key to solving environmental problems, environmental students come to believe in the priority of the world environmental problems. Changes in worldviews are accompanied by an intensification of pro-ecological behavior in everyday life. The impact of ecological education as the education for sustainable development on personality attitudes manifests itself in two ways - in attitudes to the problem of environmental change and in attitudes toward the natural world. The awareness of the importance of anthropogenic environmental change is accompanied by the clarifying of ideas about money as a universal means of solving environmental problems and the awareness of the importance of environmental change not only for humans but also for other species. An important result of these changes is the increased pro-environmental orientation of everyday behavior.

UNIVERSITY STUDENTS’ INFORMATION SOURCES OF EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ISSUES AND THEIR PERCEPTIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-104
Author(s):  
Jari Kukkonen ◽  
Sirpa Kärkkäinen ◽  
Tuula Keinonen
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
University Students ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Information Source ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The Media

Mass media consumption has expanded from traditional mass media – television broadcasting, newspapers, radio - into new media, such as the Internet. Information about environmental issues such as global warming, water and air pollution and other environmental problems, comes mainly from the media. In Finland nowadays the Internet is generally the most important source of news for young people. The media has also been used in a variety of ways relating to education for sustainable development. In the survey, education for sustainable development, students’ opinions were asked on 73 items concerning different dimensions of education for sustainable development. This study focuses on two of these items: how university students from different disciplines get information about education for sustainable development issues and which environmental problems they perceive as being the most important. It was found that although students get information about education for sustainable development issues mainly from television and newspapers almost an equal amount comes from the Internet, and lectures are the fourth source of information. Students perceived climate change and the lack of clean water as being the most important environmental problems, the second was the decrease in biodiversity and the least important, malaria. Those students whose information source was mainly television did not perceive biodiversity as being that important environmental problem. Keywords: education for sustainable development, environmental problems, environmental information sources.

Education for Sustainable Development: A Situational Diagnostic and a Case Study at Secondary Technical School level in Hermosillo, Mexico.

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Esquer ◽  
Francisco Manzo ◽  
Andrea G. Zavala ◽  
Clara R. Alvarez ◽  
Luis E. Velazquez
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
School Level ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Technical School ◽  
Technical Schools ◽  
The City

Education for sustainable development (ESD) has emerged during last years as a way to promote a better culture of respect, balance and justice for the environment and society. This document aims to describe relevant results of a study conducted in the city of Hermosillo, Mexico, about sustainability programs in secondary technical schools. The study was addressed in two ways: A survey was applied to ten (10) local institutions and a case study was conducted to one of them in order to identify behaviors and beliefs of its faculty members under sustainability approach. Two of the main outcomes are that ESD has not been as effective in the city as it was thought; and that the perceptions and values of the participant institution might be redirected towards a more environmental empathy.

Educational ethics and the DESD: Considering trade-offs

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Schlottmann
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Mission Statements ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Decision Making ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Educational Ethics ◽  
Environmental Decision

The United Nation's Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) aims to prepare students for pressing economic and environmental problems. In this article, I argue that an exclusive emphasis on an ambiguous goal, sustainable development, raises important questions for educational ethics. Specifically, I argue that DESD mission statements and curricula often fail to account for trade-offs that are inevitable in environmental decision-making. Further, I argue that DESD aims don't adequately focus on the development of agency, decision-making skills, and ethical empowerment. I conclude by suggesting that ESD curricula should critically and constructively recognize the inevitability of trade-offs.

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