Special Issue "Social Sciences Education for Sustainable Development"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2022.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Maria Pilar Rivero Gracia
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Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education/ IUCA, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: heritage education; historical education; heritage web 2.0 educommunication; social sciences for sustainable development; technologies for social sciences education
Dr. Silvia García-Ceballos
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Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education/ IUCA, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: heritage education; virtual environment; augmented reality; heritage programs; evaluation; archaeological museums; cultural heritage; open-air museums; sustainability; educommunication; citizen participation
Dr. Miguel Ángel Pallarés
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Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education/ IUCA, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: heritage education; educommunication; social sciences for sustainable development
Dr. María Sebastián-López
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Department of Specific Didactics, Faculty of Education/ IUCA-ARGOS, University of Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Interests: geography education; developing digital data literacy; geographical skills and ICT skills; social sciences for sustainable development

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Education is key to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Social science teachers, heritage educators, or committed geographers, among other specialists, have developed innovative educational proposals or have implemented digital tools for new sustainable approaches to heritage, public space, and communities.

Concerned with the contribution of the social sciences to the sustainable development goals established by Agenda 2030 of the United Nations, we present this Special Issue focused on making research formulated from this discipline visible concerning goal 4 “Quality education” and goal 11 “Sustainable Cities and Communities”—especially the goal “Redouble efforts to protect and safeguard the world's cultural and natural heritage”. In particular, the scope of this issue aims to publish studies that propose innovative research that makes a contribution to the development of civic competencies and values ​​related to sustainability, both in formal and non-formal contexts—schools, museums, social media, virtual environments, etc. In general, manuscripts must show effective educational research for the development of civic competencies and values ​​linked to environmental, social, and cultural sustainability and specifically to the Sustainable Development Goals. Research methods for this topic can be quantitative, qualitative, or mixed.

Therefore, the purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a place for the exchange of new educational proposals, emerging issues, and technology applied to sustainability and/or civic competencies, committed to quality education in any field of social sciences. It is about forming a broad vision of good practices in social sciences education related to the values of sustainability that have been critically evaluated through empirical research. This Special Issue is raised in line with other themes of the journal, such as:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/heritage_education

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/instructional_support

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/edu_environ_citizen_sus

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/edu_sdg

Dr. Maria Pilar Rivero Gracia
Dr. Silvia García-Ceballos
Dr. Miguel Ángel Pallarés
Dr. Dr. María Sebastián-López
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Instructional Design
  • Sustainable Value Creation
  • Social Sciences Education
  • Citizenship Education
  • Education for sustainability

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Educational Illustration of the Historical City, Education Citizenship, and Sustainable Heritage
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5706; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105706 - 19 May 2021
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The Sustainable Development Goals identified by the United Nations (2030 agenda) aim to promote sustainable cities, the need to safeguard cultural heritage, and the importance of quality education. Through different projects, the DIDPATRI research group at the University of Barcelona has developed didactic [...] Read more.
The Sustainable Development Goals identified by the United Nations (2030 agenda) aim to promote sustainable cities, the need to safeguard cultural heritage, and the importance of quality education. Through different projects, the DIDPATRI research group at the University of Barcelona has developed didactic iconographic models on the historical and heritage dimension of cities. Comprehensible proposals have been made by developing unique techniques and using easily accessible technologies. The working hypothesis has focused on the idea that the models of didactic iconography promote the understanding of the history of the city, and this enables educational actions and contributes to the formation of quality citizenship, aware of the importance of heritage, with a view to the sustainability of urban environments themselves. The components and the layout of the iconographic prototypes tested have been developed with the available technological variables, but, above all, they focus on the conceptual organization of the iconographic contents to show. In other words, it places greater emphasis on techniques than on subsidiary technologies for change. The development of different projects has generated models of empirical effectiveness, which methodologically have contributed to improving, in the key of sustainability, the knowledge of historical urban environments and respect for heritage. The case studies considered in this work are two of the most emblematic developed by the DIDPATRI group: the archaeological site of El Born in Barcelona, and the medieval site of La Seu de Urgell, in the Catalan Pyrenees. Full article
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Coeducation and Citizenship: A Study on Initial Teacher Training in Sexual Equality and Diversity
Sustainability 2021, 13(9), 5233; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13095233 - 07 May 2021
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The present study makes an exhaustive review of the conditions and challenges faced by society to transform the school into a truly inclusive, coeducational, and democratic space. It proposes a theoretical model, of a bottom-up nature, to achieve gender equality in the school [...] Read more.
The present study makes an exhaustive review of the conditions and challenges faced by society to transform the school into a truly inclusive, coeducational, and democratic space. It proposes a theoretical model, of a bottom-up nature, to achieve gender equality in the school environment, giving special importance to teacher training. This study evaluates the training in gender equality and coeducation that students with degrees related to teaching are receiving. An analysis is conducted of the presence of attitudes that support the gender/sex system and the identification of relevant female references in a sample of 452 students in the Degree in Primary Education or the University Master’s Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary Education, Upper Secondary Education, Vocational Training, and Language Teaching (MUPES). For the collection of information, an ad hoc questionnaire was used that contemplates formative and cultural aspects, together with the Inventory of Ambivalent Sexism (ASI), the Attitudes of Heterosexuals toward Homosexuals (HATH), and the Women in History (WH) scales. Among the main results, the important lack of training in aspects related to gender equality and coeducation, as well as a general lack of knowledge of historical female references, stands out. It can be concluded that, at present, teacher training is still in the early stages of the proposed model. Full article
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