Learning about Sustainability and SDG with Future Primary Education Teachers in Initial Training

Francisco Javier Robles-Moral

doi:10.3390/socsci10110409

Francisco Javier Robles-Moral

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https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci10110409

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Journal: Social Sciences	Publication Date: Oct 22, 2021
Citations: 5	License type: CC BY 4.0

Affiliation: University of Murcia

Abstract

The current situation of global change, caused by our way of life and our consumption habits, has negative effects on the social, economic and environmental spheres. To alleviate these changes, from the field of education, various actions focused on sustainability are being carried out. Knowledge of sustainable environmental development is essential in the formation of citizenship, and therefore in education. That is why the purpose of this work is to introduce future primary school teachers to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development established by the UN, as an educational tool for teaching and learning sustainability in classrooms. The 4th Degree of Primary Education students worked at designing a didactic intervention, based on the development of Education for Sustainable Development Competencies (ESDC), complemented with the dissemination on Instagram of visual creations on the SDGs designed for primary education students. As a result, 5 didactic proposals and 84 posts were generated on Instagram with 1131 comments. In conclusion, in teacher training, it is necessary to become familiar with the scientific contents and the various ways of working on them in the classroom, to enable the necessary didactic transfer.

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The world in the process of global change is a world in which the unequal exploitation and use of resources causes inequalities and imbalances in all spheres: social, economic and environmental
The current situation of global change, caused by our way of life and our consumption habits, has effects on all terrestrial systems. It is argued by (Saldaña and Messina 2014), that current societies manifest a series of values and norms of conduct that have been developed along with economic development, and that have caused a change in lifestyle; the main causes by which the environment in the world continues to deteriorate, the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production
Work on sustainability in the primary education classroom by designing activities that address current problems and solutions, which are close to the community

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The world in the process of global change is a world in which the unequal exploitation and use of resources causes inequalities and imbalances in all spheres: social, economic and environmental. The current situation of global change, caused by our way of life and our consumption habits, has effects on all terrestrial systems (atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere) It is argued by (Saldaña and Messina 2014), that current societies manifest a series of values and norms of conduct that have been developed along with economic development, and that have caused a change in lifestyle; the main causes by which the environment in the world continues to deteriorate, the unsustainable patterns of consumption and production. This change of anthropic origin has various faces, such as accelerated climate change, the loss of biodiversity, the unequal distribution of water and food, the overexploitation of natural resources, the loss of functionality of ecosystems, etc. One of these changes has been taking place in the field of education, through the integral formation of the person with special attention to sustainability, which requires a sensitivity and a special awareness of the environment, to understand it as an ecosystem and habitat that welcomes us and that must be cared for, cared for and conserved (Hernández 2019)

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