Measuring Student Teachers' Understandings and Self-Awareness of Sustainability

Autor/in	Birdsall, Sally
Titel	Measuring Student Teachers' Understandings and Self-Awareness of Sustainability
Quelle	In: Environmental Education Research, 20 (2014) 6, S.814-835 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-4622
DOI	10.1080/13504622.2013.833594
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Conservation (Environment); Teaching Methods; Concept Formation; Student Teachers; Comprehension; Knowledge Level; Teacher Competencies; Questionnaires; Likert Scales; Foreign Countries; Natural Resources; New Zealand + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Conservation; Environment; Konservierung; Bewahung; Umwelt; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Verstehen; Verständnis; Wissensbasis; Lehrkunst; Fragebogen; Likert-Skala; Ausland; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Neuseeland
Abstract	Understanding sustainability is important, as people need to cope with issues associated with over-population and over-consumption. Education is seen as a key strategy to assist with the development of people's understandings of this complex concept, which could then lead to them being able to make more sustainable lifestyle decisions. In order to teach this concept, teachers need to understand sustainability. This paper investigated 77 New Zealand student teachers' understandings of sustainability and the level of self-awareness of their understandings. A definition of sustainability was developed for this research from which two tools were constructed to measure these teachers' level of understanding and self-awareness. Findings showed that many of these student teachers had simplistic understandings of sustainability that were focused on an environmental component. Further evidence of their low level of understanding was illustrated in the way that over half of this group were not able to accurately rate their own level of understanding. These findings suggest a need for the development of teachers' understandings of sustainability so that they can plan and teach effective sustainability education programmes. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10