Special Issue "Sustainability in Biology, Geography and Interdisciplinary Studies and Sustainable Pedagogies"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Adj. Prof. Dr. Eija Yli-Panula
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Department of Teacher Education, University of Turku, 20014 Turku, Finland
Interests: Biology and Geography Education and Environmental and Sustainability Education
Adj. Prof. Dr. Eila Jeronen
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1. Faculty of Education, University of Oulu, Pentti Kaiteran katu 1, 90570 Oulu, Finland
2. Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki, Yliopistonkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Finland
3. Faculty of Education, University of Lapland, Yliopistonkatu 8, 96300 Rovaniemi, Finland
Interests: teaching and learning in natural sciences; environmental and sustainability education and health education
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue aims to publish high-quality research papers on Biology, Geography, Health Education, and interdisciplinary studies in the field of sustainability education.

One of the goals for the future is to achieve a sustainable society through the process of sustainable development. The concept of sustainable development is based on the concept of socioeconomic development in line with ecological constraints. The concept of needs requires a redistribution of resources to ensure the quality of life and basic needs for present and future generations.

Sustainability education provides teaching, learning, and practical experience in both formal and nonformal settings that foster personal development, community involvement, and action for change in our human and natural worlds. Education for sustainable development and sustainability are ways to get people to understand the complexity of the environment and to adapt their activities and pursue their development in ways which are harmonious with the environment. Education at all levels (e.g., schools, universities) plays a crucial role in constructing sustainable societies and wellbeing.

The research to be presented in this Special Issue will focus on student teachers’, on students’ and pupils´ or educators´ competence and awareness in addition to conceptions and concepts and other relevant issues of human environmental relationships in the domains of environmental or ecological, social, cultural, and economic sustainability.

Adj. Prof. Dr. Eija Yli-Panula
Adj. Prof. Dr. Eila Jeronen
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Competencies in teaching/learning sustainable development
  • Environmental biology and geography
  • Health education and sustainable development goals
  • Integrative and virtual teaching/learning in sustainability
  • Pedagogy of environmental sciences
  • Sustainability education
  • Sustainable development goals in education
  • Sustainable pedagogies
  • Climate change education
  • Children, adolescent, adults, pupils, students, student teachers

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Geography Education for Promoting Sustainability in Indonesia
Sustainability 2021, 13(8), 4340; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13084340 - 13 Apr 2021
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Education for the environment and sustainable development is the one important thing for being studied. At formal school in Indonesia, it was integrated into the subject matter like social science, natural science, geography, or biology. The study about geography education for promoting sustainability [...] Read more.
Education for the environment and sustainable development is the one important thing for being studied. At formal school in Indonesia, it was integrated into the subject matter like social science, natural science, geography, or biology. The study about geography education for promoting sustainability had not been thoroughly done in Indonesia. Therefore, this study examined and investigated articles about geography learning and sustainability in Indonesia from 2010 to 2020. The materials were searched through the Garuda and ERIC application, by using keywords related to geography education. It was selected to published articles in journals indexed by Scopus and Sinta. The data were analyzed by a qualitative method with a content analysis approach. The foci of analysis are topics of sustainability elements, learning methods and models, learning media and resources, and students’ assessment in geography learning. All of these were investigated in concern to their relationships and achievements to sustainable development goals (SDGs). As a result, the topics of geography education in Indonesia have contained three main elements of sustainability, namely environment which the most stated, then social, and economic. The learning model and method that was mostly used was outdoor learning with contextual method. The learning media that mostly mentioned were maps, while the learning resources were local wisdom. Aspects of students’ assessment that mostly studied in geography education for promoting sustainability were students’ knowledge, attitude, and skills. Overall, this study has shown that the topics related to sustainability elements contained in the articles on geography education in Indonesia includes their learning components. Full article
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