Trainee Teachers’ Perceptions of Socio-Environmental Problems for Curriculum Development

Roberto García-Morís and Ramón Martínez-Medina ()
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Roberto García-Morís: Department of Specific Teaching Training and Research and Diagnosis Methods in Education, University of A Coruña, 15008 A Coruña, Spain
Ramón Martínez-Medina: Department of Specific Didactics, University of Córdoba, 14071 Córdoba, Spain

Social Sciences, 2022, vol. 11, issue 10, 1-13

Abstract: Socio-environmental problems are some of the major concerns of today’s society, and education is an essential area to raise awareness and mould future citizens who will be committed to sustainability. The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how future primary and secondary education teachers in the area of social sciences perceive the socio-environmental problems that affect today’s society, for their subsequent inclusion in the curriculum. To this end, a study was carried out by means of a questionnaire, which showed that trainee primary and secondary teachers have a high consideration of these environmental problems, with hardly any differences noted according to sex or type of degree studied. This perception is positive in terms of the subsequent inclusion of socio-environmental problems in the development of the curriculum by the participating trainee teachers, who largely prefer an autonomous model for curricular implementation.

Keywords: teacher training; socio-environmental problems; environment; sustainability; social sciences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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