Assessment of Sustainable Development in Secondary School Economics Students According to Gender

Abstract

<jats:p>Environmental education is one of the most effective means of raising public awareness of the need to preserve the environment, and therefore plays a key role in raising awareness and conserving the environment. Teachers also play an important role in achieving these sustainable objectives. Economic decisions are intimately linked to and affect the sustainable development to a large extent, hence the importance of the subject of economics in achieving sustainability. The minimum contents established by the educational law on these aspects related to sustainability have been revised. Through a survey, the differences in knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors related to sustainable development are analyzed from a gender perspective. It is detected that, in general, women have a greater knowledge of environmental issues and more sensitivity, with a greater commitment to recycling and changing lifestyles.</jats:p>

Sustainability and Educational Technology—A Description of the Teaching Self-Concept

“…On the one hand the use and mastery of ICT and, on the other, environmental awareness. Starting with this latter aspect, substantial evidence confirms that women have played a primordial role in sustainable development [80,81] and they value questions related to sustainable development more strongly [82,83], a relevant fact in our study. Thus, in the absence of clear evidence of lesser environmental awareness in women, the results obtained could be partially explained by the existence of a digital gender gap.…”

Educating Digital Citizens on Sustainable Development Goals

“…By gender, there is an especially high and significant improvement in the case of women, with the difference that existed by sex before carrying out the SDG education disappearing, i.e. women seem to show a greater predisposition to modify their initial positions on sustainability, with similar results being found by Cifuentes-Faura, Faura-Martínez and Lafuente-Lechuga [55]. Despite this, it is a question to consider with caution given the overrepresentation of women: 82.8% compared to 17.2%.…”

Educating Digital Citizens: An Opportunity to Critical and Activist Perspective of Sustainable Development Goals

“…The intervention on content related to the SDGs leads to an overall improvement in critical, active and empowering digital engagement to fight for social justice and human development (Digital Citizenship). By gender, there is an especially high and significant improvement in the case of women, with the difference that existed by sex before carrying out the SDG education disappearing, i.e., women seem to show a greater predisposition to modify their initial positions on sustainability, with similar results being found by Cifuentes-Faura, Faura-Martínez and Lafuente-Lechuga [65]. Despite this, it is a question to consider with caution given the overrepresentation of women: 82.8% compared to 17.2%.…”