Improving sustainability teaching by grouping and interrelating pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences: Evidence from 15 Worldwide Higher Education Institutions
| Autor: | Rodrigo Lozano, Maria Barreiro‐Gen, Dalia D'Amato, Carmen Gago‐Cortes, Claudio Favi, Ricardo Martins, Ferenc Monus, Sandra Caeiro, Javier Benayas, Savindi Caldera, Sevket Bostanci, Ilija Djekic, Jose Mariano Moneva, Orlando Sáenz, Bankole Awuzie, Bartlomiej Gladysz |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Suomen ympäristökeskus, The Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS), Department of Forest Sciences, Forest Economics, Business and Society, Forest Bioeconomy, Business and Sustainability |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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higher education institutions
pedagogical approaches Systems thinking Development Education for sustainable development sustainability competences Sustainability competences holistic thinking korkeakoulut Pedagogia 1172 Environmental sciences Desarrollo sostenible pedagogy CURRICULA Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Higher education institutions education for sustainable development systems thinking ekologisuus FRAMEWORK sustainability opetus teaching KEY COMPETENCES pedagogiikka Pedagogical approaches Investigación 516 Educational sciences kestävyys Instituciones de educación superior Holistic thinking |
| Zdroj: | Sustainable Development Repositorio Institucional UDCA Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A instacron:Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas y Ambientales U.D.C.A RUC. Repositorio da Universidade da Coruña instname |
| DOI: | 10.1002/sd.2396 |
| Popis: | There has been increasing research on pedagogical approaches, sustainability competences, and how to connect them in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). This paper's aim is to provide deeper insights into the system of pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences, as well as how these interrelate. A survey was developed to investigate sustainability teaching in 15 HEIs. The survey was sent to educators of each HEI from which 668 responses were obtained. The responses were analysed in a five-step process: (1) descriptive statistics; (2) Pearson correlations; (3) principal component analyses (PCAs) to detect groups; (4) Pearson correlations between the groups; and (5) regressions. The first step provided the base to carry out the PCAs, from which three groups for the pedagogical approaches (Universal, Social, and Environmental) and three for the sustainability competences (Extrospective-social, Introspective-personal, and Cogitative-processual) were obtained. The correlations between the groups showed that: (1) the competences are closely interrelated; (2) the pedagogical approaches are somehow interrelated; and (3) the pedagogical approaches are somehow interrelated to the competences. The regressions showed that the Universal and Social groups would be most suitable to develop all the competences' groups. The Environmental group develops only the cogitative-processual competences' group. The results served as bases to propose the Sustainability Teaching System (STS), which provides deeper insights into the system of pedagogical approaches and sustainability competences by grouping them, as well as showing directionality and strength. To improve sustainability teaching, it is necessary to understand the pedagogical approaches' groups and how they can develop the competences' groups. © 2022 The Authors. Sustainable Development published by ERP Environment and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. |
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