ERIC Number: EJ1414166
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 22
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ISSN: ISSN-1350-4622
EISSN: EISSN-1469-5871
Teachers' Profiles in Education for Sustainable Development: Interests, Instructional Beliefs, and Instructional Practices
Environmental Education Research, v30 n3 p397-418 2024
Teachers' instructional beliefs and interests in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) are related to holistic, pluralistic, and action-oriented instructional practices in ESD teaching. To explore this hypothesis, we examine teachers' ESD teaching profiles based on their instructional beliefs, interests, and instructional practices in ESD. We apply a mixed method design using a survey (quantitative data) and vignettes with open accompanying questions (qualitative data). Our sample consists of 535 Flemish elementary and secondary school teachers for the scales. A subsample of 187 teachers responded to the vignettes. Our analysis indicates two teachers' ESD teaching profiles: the lower ESD practice-oriented teachers who hold several instructional beliefs about holistic and pluralistic instructional practices, are interested in action-orientation in ESD, but do not apply the practices in class; and the higher ESD practice-oriented teachers who also have varying instructional beliefs about holistic and pluralistic instructional practices but are not very interested in action-orientation in ESD. However, they use holistic, pluralistic, or action-oriented practices in ESD teaching.
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Beliefs, Teaching Methods, Interests, Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Holistic Approach, Active Learning, Teaching Styles, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Belgium
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