Spanish University Students’ Awareness and Perception of Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainability Literacy

Leiva-Brondo, Miguel; Vidal-Meló, Anna; Atarés, Alejandro; Lull, Cristina

doi:10.3390/su14084552

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“…Working with SD in HE demands a strong focus on and awareness of SL, as the outcome for the student. Thus, HE must elaborate more on how to head for this within the teaching and learning agenda but also make the student aware of the concept (Leiva-Brondo et al , 2022). SL behaviour should be about combining knowledge, skills and mindset.…”

Section: Discussion: Higher Education For Sustainable Development a W...mentioning

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Educating the educators to be a driving force in higher education towards sustainable development

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Einarson

Melén

2023

IJSHE

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Purpose This study aims to address how a higher education pedagogical course in sustainable development (SD) for university educators affects their teaching efforts in providing sustainability matters for students. Design/methodology/approach With the aim of improving that course, a case study approach was used to understand how the educators made use of the course in their teaching practice. Data were collected as written and oral feedback reflections and as semi-structured interviews at course completion. Findings Educators clearly express that they understand the concept “about” SD, but there are only vague expressions of a developed teaching repertoire to address education “for” SD in their teaching practice. Research limitations/implications When it comes to the purposes of developing sustainability literacy among students, implications from the study furthermore address the needs for further clarifications on both structure and intent on the course presented in this contribution. Practical implications The educators as well as their students will be exposed to, and trained in concepts, to prepare them to act in alignment with SD. This, in turn, meets requirements from higher education authorities concerning SD at higher education institutions. Social implications A core aim of the covered approach is to support student readiness in SD, and for those to become future agents of positive change. Originality/value This study has a focus on presenting how educators change the structures of courses and learning elements to approach SD in their teachings.

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Section: Discussion: Higher Education For Sustainable Development a W...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Educating the educators to be a driving force in higher education towards sustainable development

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Einarson

Melén

2023

IJSHE

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“…We agree that sustainability is predicated on infrastructure and the careful development of urban space via the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), but it also encompasses concerns about the environment, the autonomous character of a smart city, and its multilayered and redundant intelligent transportation systems. The SDGs are a set of priorities that address humanity's most pressing challenges, deriving from the United Nations 2030 Agenda presenting a plan of action based on three axes: people, the planet and prosperity [24]. The autonomous character of a smart city is an important piece of the "puzzle" surrounding its definition.…”

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Smart Cities and Transportation: Reviewing the Scientific Character of the Theories

2022

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The concept “smart city” nowadays designates a plethora of things. The multiple meanings associated with the smart city, and its imperfect synonym the “robotic city”, continue to provide a topic of debate. In this paper we aim to present an epistemologically grounded review of articles focused on the concept of “smart city” and its correlatives. The goal of this article is to ascertain whether the scientific character of the theories employed in such articles is discussed and/or ascertained. For this purpose, we used Popper’s method of falsification: a theory’s scientific character is determined by its falsifiability and eventual falsification. Papers from the literature were extracted using the PRISMA method, and 15 studies were assessed as eligible for analysis. Most conclusions and results expounded in the articles reviewed that claim to be scientific are arguably based on the unsound logic of verification and confirmation rather than falsification. This has the detrimental effect of reducing to the category of logically false universal instantiations the majority of conclusions about (a) smart city services and infrastructures, (b) intelligent transportation systems and (c) blockchain/Internet of Things.

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“…Grodek-Szostak et al [18] surveyed undergraduates from Poland, Ukraine and the Czech Republic in order to understand their awareness and behaviors in energy conservation, where the results showed that roughly 60% of undergraduates followed the principles of energy conservation, although their behaviors varied across countries. Leiva-Brondo et al [19] attempted to understand the awareness and perception of sustainable development goals (SDGs) of Spanish undergraduates, reporting that only 15.9% of those surveyed had a good understanding of SDGs and the sustainability literacy level was 63%, indicating a lack of knowledge.…”

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Analysis of Undergraduates’ Environmentally Friendly Behavior: Case Study of Tzu Chi University Environmental Education Program

Tsai

Tan

2022

Energies

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The Tzu Chi University Environmental Education Program, based on a theory of change, consisted of four weeks of lessons involving environmental and sustainability topics, followed by hands-on sorting of recyclables and four weeks of weekly documenting of environmentally friendly behavior. The Program was analyzed using written thoughts from the Experimental Group, as well as 78 and 116 valid survey responses of the Control and Experimental Groups, respectively. The survey consisted of questions regarding demographics and five constructs: environmental awareness, attitudes, norms, efficacy and behavior. No significant average differences were found between the pre-tests of the Control and Experimental Groups, or between the pre- and post-test of the Control Group. The post-test of the Experimental Group displayed a significantly higher average value when compared to both the pre-test of the Experimental Group and the post-test of the Control Group, as the means of the self-reported environmental awareness, attitudes, norms, efficacy and behavior significantly improved statistically after participating in the Program. Analysis revealed that lessons from the Program increased undergraduates’ environmental awareness and attitudes; “hands-on recyclables sorting” and “weekly documentation of environmentally friendly behavior” strengthened undergraduates’ environmental norms and efficacy, while their combination resulted in a significant improvement toward environmentally friendly behavior.

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Spanish University Students’ Awareness and Perception of Sustainable Development Goals and Sustainability Literacy

Cited by 52 publications

References 126 publications

Educating the educators to be a driving force in higher education towards sustainable development

Educating the educators to be a driving force in higher education towards sustainable development

Smart Cities and Transportation: Reviewing the Scientific Character of the Theories

Analysis of Undergraduates’ Environmentally Friendly Behavior: Case Study of Tzu Chi University Environmental Education Program

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