Narratives as a Didactic Resource in the Social Sciences to Teach Sustainable Development: A Study with Primary Education Students

Miguel Jesús López Serrano and Rafael Guerrero Elecalde
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Miguel Jesús López Serrano: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Cordoba, 14004 Cordoba, Spain
Rafael Guerrero Elecalde: Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education, University of Cordoba, 14004 Cordoba, Spain

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 13, 1-15

Abstract: The environment should be incorporated transversally into all human activities, especially the different areas of education. However, this is not always the case. In these pages we present a study carried out during the 2021/2022 academic year among students studying for a degree in Primary Education at the University of Cordoba, to analyze narratives as resources for teaching pupils about the environment and sustainable development, mainly through the dissemination and knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Data on the didactic experience was collected from a potential sample of 217 teachers to be via a questionnaire validated by experts, which was subjected to reliability analysis with Cronbach’s Alpha, using the SPSS program, version 25.0 for Windows. The trainee teachers reacted positively to the use of narratives as resources for teaching and learning about the environmental contents of the SDGs, considering them an ideal pedagogical resource to transmit concepts effectively, in addition to serving to develop other types of competences. Likewise, they concluded that this intervention provided significant coverage of both the theoretical and practical contents of sustainable development.

Keywords: storytelling; social sciences; sustainable development; environmental education; higher education; environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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