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

• Published in: Social sciences (Basel) Vol. 10; no. 11; p. 409
• Main Author: Robles-Moral, Francisco Javier
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.11.2021
• Subjects: Climate change; Environmental education; Environmental impact; Knowledge; Learning; primary education; SDG; Students; sustainability; Sustainable development; Teachers; teachers training; Teaching; Values; Tbilisi Georgia (country); Georgia (country)
• ISSN: 2076-0760; 2076-0760
• DOI: 10.3390/socsci10110409

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.