Education for a sustainable future in teacher training. What are we doing?

Abstract

Education for Sustainability must be an essential dimension in teacher training, but in order to make some progress sustainability trainers should think about some questions such as, what are we doing?, what difficulties do we find? And, ultimately, how to promote Cultural Sustainability? The purpose of this study is to shed light on the issue, so we present a first analysis that explores the changing about the conceptions of the students who have completed the Education for Sustainability course, part of the Master of Secondary teacher training at the University of Sevilla, to obtain data about how the developing training is significant and produces learning. The methodology used is Action-research in which teachers combine teaching and inquiry. For data collection we used a Likert questionnaire before start and after the subject. The first results show that there have been some significant changes in students who have completed the subject Education for Sustainability included in the Master Course Secondary School Teacher Training at the University of Sevilla. The results show an increasingly complex and systemic vision of sustainability. Changes on the teacher’s role and his influence as an educator and the review of the concept of education are also produced. This allows us to make a positive first assessment of the experience. Also, the evaluation of the results allows us to improve the proposal.