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- Title
Secondary School Students' Perceptions and Concerns on Sustainability and Climate Change.
- Authors
de Rivas, Raquel; Vilches, Amparo; Mayoral, Olga
- Abstract
This research is framed in Education for Sustainability, aimed at promoting the inclusion of the principles and values of Sustainability in education from a holistic perspective. The study focuses on finding out the concerns and knowledge of secondary school students from Valencia (Spain), who were surveyed during the academic years 2019–2020, 2020–2021 and 2021–2022 about Sustainability and Climate Change. Examining their conceptions, initial ideas, possible shortcomings, and conceptual errors is necessary to build a teaching itinerary with the purpose of adapting and reorienting educational practice to changing situations and different social contexts. The analysis, which is part of a broader research project, focuses on studying what secondary school students know (or rather, what they do not know or are unaware of) about Sustainability and Climate Change, examining their interests and concerns. Our experimental design is based on a wide-ranging questionnaire addressed to students that also promotes initial reflections. The results show that the participating students are concerned about socio-environmental problems, particularly about Climate Change. Nevertheless, they show a limited knowledge of Sustainability. This situation must encourage the involvement of the whole educational community to achieve a greater understanding of the planetary crisis through Education for Sustainability with the final goal of ensuring an effective involvement of the younger generations who are beginning to make their own decisions.
- Subjects
VALENCIA (Spain); PSYCHOLOGY of students; SECONDARY school students; SUSTAINABILITY; CLIMATE change; EDUCATIONAL change; EDUCATIONAL benefits; CONCEPTION
- Publication
Climate (2225-1154), 2024, Vol 12, Issue 2, p17
- ISSN
2225-1154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cli12020017