Using ClassCraft to Improve Primary School Students’ Knowledge and Interest in Sustainable Mobility

Silvia Sipone, Víctor Abella-García, Marta Rojo and Luigi dell’Olio
Additional contact information
Silvia Sipone: Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Víctor Abella-García: Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Marta Rojo: Departamento de Ingenieria Civil, Universidad de Burgos, 09001 Burgos, Spain
Luigi dell’Olio: Departamento de Transportes y Tecnologia de Proyectos y Procesos, Universidad de Cantabria, 39005 Santander, Spain

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 17, 1-21

Abstract: Teaching students awareness about sustainable mobility has been lacking to date. There is a need to expand the themes being addressed in order to achieve a change in attitude. Society needs to design a curriculum that teaches about sustainable mobility to guarantee a better environment for future generations. This article presents the most important results of an experiment based on gamification to promote the education of sustainable mobility in primary school classrooms. This new teaching method, aimed at children aged 10–12 years old, applies non-gambling play metaphors to real-life tasks to motivate a change in attitude. The didactic approach was developed using the ClassCraft platform to create specific activities that consider the environmental, economic, and social aspects of sustainable mobility. The initial analysis revealed a perception about sustainable mobility that focused on environmental problems with very little input on the economic and social aspects. The experience has shown that by using the gamified ClassCraft tool applying structured activities about all aspects of sustainable mobility, the pupils acquired new concepts that clarified the social and economic components and began to develop a conscience about how to become an active part in behavioural change.

Keywords: gamification; sustainable mobility; education; primary school; ClassCraft (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/17/9939/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/17/9939/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jsusta:v:13:y:2021:i:17:p:9939-:d:628991

Access Statistics for this article

Sustainability is currently edited by Ms. Alexandra Wu

More articles in Sustainability from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().