Training Secondary Education Teachers through the Prism of Sustainability: The Case of the Universitat de València

Pilar Aznar, María Calero, María Pilar Martínez-Agut, Olga Mayoral, Àngels Ull, Victoria Vázquez-Verdera and Amparo Vilches
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Pilar Aznar: Departamento de Teoría de la Educación, Universitat de València, 46010 Valencia, Spain
María Calero: Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales, Universitat de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
María Pilar Martínez-Agut: Departamento de Teoría de la Educación, Universitat de València, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Olga Mayoral: Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales, Universitat de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Àngels Ull: Estructura de Recerca Interdisciplinar de Estudios de Sostenibilidad, Universitat de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain
Victoria Vázquez-Verdera: Departamento de Teoría de la Educación, Universitat de València, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Amparo Vilches: Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y Sociales, Universitat de València, 46022 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 11, 1-14

Abstract: Designing the training of future teachers through holistic and interdisciplinary visions is vital to developing coherent contents, epistemologies, and methodologies that put Education for Sustainability into action. The research presented here analyzes the teaching guides from the curriculum for the Master’s Degree in Secondary Education Teaching at the Universitat de València (Spain). A collaborative study on the inclusion of sustainability in a selected sample of teaching guides was conducted from an Action/Research methodological approach. The study includes an analysis of the competences identified by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and their expected contribution to the 17 SDGs in the United Nations 2030 Agenda. The results of this research point to the need to promote collaborative work across disciplines in order to engage teachers in the transition to sustainability and encourage them to participate in the research process.

Keywords: sustainable development; master´s degree; transforming teaching and learning; teacher training; education for sustainable development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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