Research Collaboration of Austrian and Indian Teenagers in the Context of Education for Sustainable Development

Martin Dür and Lars Keller
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Martin Dür: Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Lars Keller: Institute of Geography, University of Innsbruck, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 18, 1-19

Abstract: Today’s environmental challenges have been determined and exacerbated by human behavior. It is imperative that education develops learning-settings that enable students to make their individual lifestyles more sustainable. The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of the research-education-collaboration ‘AustrIndia-4QOL’ (Teenagers from Austria and India Perform Research on Quality of Life) on the teenagers’ awareness of the importance of environmental aspects in regards to quality of life, and on their willingness to act towards more sustainable lifestyles. Therefore, the results from a collaboration via social media and from a collaboration with additional face-to-face workshops were analyzed. The question of whether an increased awareness or willingness to act is followed by a change of real action after the project was also investigated. The results indicate that conducting education for sustainable development requires long term educational engagement, and that unintended effects cannot be excluded.

Keywords: Education for Sustainable Development; teenager education; international collaboration; conceptual change; change of action; quality of life; sustainable lifestyles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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