How Is Sustainability Addressed in Primary and Secondary Education Curricula? Assessing the Cases of Spain and Portugal

Autor/inn/en	Suárez-López, Rafael; Eugenio-Gozalbo, Marcia
Titel	How Is Sustainability Addressed in Primary and Secondary Education Curricula? Assessing the Cases of Spain and Portugal
Quelle	In: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 31 (2022) 2, S.106-122 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Suárez-López, Rafael) ORCID (Eugenio-Gozalbo, Marcia)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1038-2046
DOI	10.1080/10382046.2021.1924498
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Elementary Secondary Education; Cross Cultural Studies; Evaluation Methods; Educational Improvement; Environmental Education; Social Influences; Economic Factors; Critical Thinking; Ethics; Curriculum Design; Teaching Methods; Foreign Countries; Spain; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Sozialer Einfluss; Ökonomischer Faktor; Kritisches Denken; Ethik; Lehrplangestaltung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Ausland; Spanien
Abstract	Sustainability is one of the most important challenges for present and future societies, which needs to be urgently and adequately addressed from Education. This study qualitatively analyses the curricula of primary and secondary education in Spain and Portugal, with the objective of assessing how sustainability is addressed across compulsory education in both countries. The results show a limited presence of sustainability in the curricula of both countries, the coexistence of different and sometimes inconsistent conceptions of sustainability, deficiencies in the inclusion of the social and economic dimensions, and a questionable technological optimism as the solution to sustainability problems. Such findings provide with a basis to improve curricula, also in other countries. Future curricular designs should seek a more ambitious approach to sustainability based on the equal importance of its three dimensions, an effective cross-curricular character, critical thinking, and an ecocentric ethics. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01