Abstract
(1) Background: International crisis situations (social, economic, health and education) need solutions. These situations need high doses of social responsibility among the population. In the educational field, different studies express that training future teachers in “Social Responsibility”, from ethics and social commitment; provides social justice and welfare in citizens. (2) Methods: This study developed a quantitative methodology; non-experimental and descriptive type. The research sample was university students registered in the Education Sciences degrees of different Spanish universities. The statistical analysis has been carried out with the SPSS software version 25 for Windows. (3) Results: The results express that the competence for social responsibility should be established in the university environment through training (university studies) contributing to the increase in the degree of social responsibility of the university student to face the changes of society (socially committed professional). (4) Conclusion: Social responsibility and university training should be key in the theoretical-practical and professional exercise of future teachers, since the quality and improvement of education will be determined by the real promotion of social responsibility as a basic competence in the curriculum of future teachers.
Highlights
Today’s society is immersed in an international health emergency caused by a new coronavirus called Covid-19
The student considers that they are aware of the urgent need for sustainable development in our society, this situation increases the interest to contribute to the improvement of their environment
This result is important because, on the one hand, university training provides a global vision of the social situation, becoming aware of the need to improve the closest environment, and on the other hand, it coincides with Arango, Clavijo, Puerta and Sánchez [28] when this situation in which university students are people committed to their environment, because this student knows different realities and puts into operation their capacity for social commitment
Summary
Today’s society is immersed in an international health emergency caused by a new coronavirus called Covid-19. Taking as a reference the objectives of the “Sustainable Development Plan”, designed by UNESCO [1], the objective “to guarantee an inclusive and equitable quality education and to promote opportunities for lifelong learning for all” recognizes that the Social Responsibility of the University is key curricular content within university training, a consubstantial and necessary part of generating personal and professional ethics. This training content would allow future teachers to practice social responsibility, from the personal to the professional (school) level
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