Educating in and for Degrowth: Training Future Generations to Prevent Environmental Collapse

Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez, José Jesús Trujillo Vargas, Eva Palomo-Cermeño (), Ignacio Perlado-Lamo de Espinosa, Luisa-María García-Salas, Kelly Romero Acosta, Luis-Miguel Mateos-Toro and Antonio Pérez-Robles
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Enrique-Javier Díez-Gutiérrez: Departamento de Didáctica General, Específicas y Teoría de la Educación, Facultad de Educación, Universidad de Leon, 24071 Leon, Spain
José Jesús Trujillo Vargas: Departamento de Educación, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain
Eva Palomo-Cermeño: Departamento de Estudios Históricos y Sociales, Lengua Española, Literatura, Filosofía Moral y Didácticas Específicas, Rey Juan Carlos University, 28942 Madrid, Spain
Ignacio Perlado-Lamo de Espinosa: Departamento de Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad de Alcalá, 28801 Madrid, Spain
Luisa-María García-Salas: Departamento de Psicología, Centro de Magisterio Virgen de Europa, Universidad de Cádiz, 11300 La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz), Spain
Kelly Romero Acosta: Education Department, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, BC V1V 1V7, Canada
Luis-Miguel Mateos-Toro: Departamento de Didáctica, Centro de Magisterio Virgen de Europa, Universidad de Cádiz, 11300 La Línea de la Concepción (Cádiz), Spain
Antonio Pérez-Robles: Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales y las Matemáticas, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, 26006 Logroño, Spain

Sustainability, 2024, vol. 16, issue 21, 1-12

Abstract: This research has been developed through a literature review on the importance of and current approach in the education system to the present environmental and ecosystemic crisis and the training of future generations in degrowth in the Spanish education system. To this end, a systematic literature review (SLR) has been carried out following the standards of the PRISMA declaration. In total, 40 articles published between January 2005 and March 2024 were selected from the following databases: Scopus, Dialnet, Web of Science and Scielo. The findings show it is a relevant topic in school education as a concern, but it is not reflected in educational practice; that it has been incorporated into the curriculum, but sporadically, decontextualised and more focused on ‘sustainable development’; also, it lacks critical questioning of the unlimited growth and consumption model that capitalism entails. The study concludes that it is crucial to incorporate degrowth in a transversal way in education at all schooling levels, and to reform the curricula of the faculties of education in all universities so that the pedagogy of degrowth is a priority in the training of future teachers.

Keywords: degrowth; education; climate change; environmental collapse; initial teacher education; education system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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