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You mean I have to teach sustainability too? Initial teacher education students’ perspectives on the sustainability cross-curriculum priority
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Dyment, JE and Hill, AM, You mean I have to teach sustainability too? Initial teacher education students' perspectives on the sustainability cross-curriculum priority, Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 40, (3) pp. 21-35. ISSN 0313-5373 (2015) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.14221/ajte.2014v40n3.2
Abstract
In this paper, we report on an investigation into initial teacher
education students’ (ITES) understandings of sustainability and the
Australian National Curriculum Sustainability Cross Curricular Priority
(CCP). We also explore their willingness and capacities to embed the
CCP into their own teaching practices. The ITES (N=392) completed a
quantitative survey with a series of Likert Scale questions and were asked
to list "5 words" when they think of sustainability. Analysis reveals that
ITES have generally limited to moderate understandings of sustainability
and education for sustainability, but lesser understandings of the
Sustainability CCP and the 9 organising ideas. Understandings of
sustainability were dominated by an environmental focus. We conclude
this paper with a discussion of the implications of narrow environmental
understandings of sustainability. We explore factors that limit and enable
teacher educators to embed sustainability education more explicitly. We
note the importance role teacher educators play in supporting ITES to
better understand sustainability
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Sustainability Education, Teacher Education, |
Research Division: | Education |
Research Group: | Education systems |
Research Field: | Teacher education and professional development of educators |
Objective Division: | Education and Training |
Objective Group: | Teaching and curriculum |
Objective Field: | Teacher and instructor development |
UTAS Author: | Dyment, JE (Associate Professor Janet Dyment) |
UTAS Author: | Hill, AM (Dr Allen Hill) |
ID Code: | 99145 |
Year Published: | 2015 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 9 |
Deposited By: | Education |
Deposited On: | 2015-03-16 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-19 |
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