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Direct linkYudu Zeng; Bjørg Oddrun Hallås; Ove Olsen Saele – Environmental Education Research, 2025
Educational praxis incorporating intercultural wisdom, transdisciplinary cooperation, and nature-culture dialogues can arguably contribute to the UN's education for sustainable development (ESD) and ameliorate current social-ecological challenges. This article elucidates how 14 Norwegian pupils aged 11-13 reflect on their experiences and feelings…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Outdoor Education, Sustainable Development
Marthe Berg Andresen Reffhaug; Emilia Andersson-Bakken; Kirsti Marie Jegstad – Environmental Education Research, 2024
In environmental and sustainability education, critical thinking is important for the pluralistic teaching tradition, creating opportunities for student autonomy, deliberation and participation. However, focusing on student participation can also result in relativism or reproduction. Consequently, this article aims to investigate how different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Critical Thinking, Urban Areas
Do Students Have Anything to Say? Student Participation in a Whole School Approach to Sustainability
Ane Eir Torsdottir; Astrid Tonette Sinnes; Daniel Olsson; Arjen Wals – Environmental Education Research, 2024
The article demonstrates how a questionnaire gauging students' experiences of participation in decision-making at their school can operationalise student participation in a whole school approach (WSA) to education for sustainable development model. Some 902 students in three upper secondary schools participated in the study by giving their answers…
Descriptors: Student Participation, Sustainability, Decision Making, Sustainable Development
Ane Eir Torsdottir; Daniel Olsson; Astrid Tonette Sinnes; Arjen Wals – Environmental Education Research, 2024
This study examines the relation between student experiences of participation in a whole school approach (WSA) and students' self-perceived action competence. We surveyed 902 students in three Norwegian upper-secondary schools participating in an education for sustainable development (ESD) programme. The questionnaire measured students'…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Self Concept, Competence, Sustainable Development
Jónsdóttir, Guðrún; Byhring, Anne Kristine – Cultural Studies of Science Education, 2023
Even though sustainable development concerns a common future "for all," cultural diversity is often absent from teaching and educational policy documents on education for sustainable development in Norway. We present a dialogue sequence from a science class. The empirical material originates from a nine-month ethnographic classroom study…
Descriptors: Science Education, Futures (of Society), Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development
Guanio-Uluru, Lykke – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2019
How can student-teachers learn efficient ways to encourage sustainability thinking in their pupils and fulfil the competence aims on sustainability outlined in national subject curriculums as a response to UNESCO's programme on Education for Sustainable Development, ESD? The core hypothesis of this project was that tailored literature circles,…
Descriptors: Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods
Arya, Diana; Maul, Andrew – International Journal of Science Education, 2016
The United Nations' declaration on climate change education in December 2014 has sparked a renewal of policies and programs initiated during the "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development" (DESD, 2005-2014), aimed at promoting awareness, understanding, and civic action for environmental sustainability within learning communities…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Climate, Change, Secondary School Students
