Author, as appears in the article.: Renta-Davids AI; Camarero-Figuerola M; Tierno-García JM
Department: Pedagogia
e-ISSN: 2071-1050
URV's Author/s: Camarero Figuerola, Marta / Renta Davids, Ana Inés / Tierno García, Juana María
Keywords: Vignette question design Quality education awareness Pre-service educators
Abstract: © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. For decades, higher education institutions have been incorporating sustainability principles. Spanish universities have considered it important that sustainability principles are integrated into the university curriculum, in order to contribute to the education of socially-responsible professionals. The present research aims to estimate pre-service educators’ awareness of selected challenges posed by Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4), and it identifies the learning experiences that contribute the most to these students’ awareness of quality education. Moreover, the study aims to explore the potential of the use of the vignettes approach for the evaluation of students’ awareness. The study drew on a sample of n = 202 first year students pursuing education-related degrees at a Spanish university. The data was collected using a vignette survey, and the data analysis was conducted using quantitative and qualitative techniques. The results show a high degree of awareness within the context of most of the challenges posed by SDG 4 and, in the search for the factors that contributed to the degree of awareness in the students, personal interests and classes taken at the university stand out. In addition, the study provides the methodological implications of the use of the vignette approach in the assessment of students’ awareness. This paper discusses the practical implications for universities of the integration of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) competences into the curriculum.
Thematic Areas: Zootecnia / recursos pesqueiros Renewable energy, sustainability and the environment Medicina i Management, monitoring, policy and law Interdisciplinar Historia Hardware and architecture Green & sustainable science & technology Geography, planning and development Geografía Geociências Environmental studies Environmental sciences Environmental science (miscellaneous) Ensino Engenharias iii Engenharias ii Engenharias i Enfermagem Energy engineering and power technology Education Computer science (miscellaneous) Computer networks and communications Ciências agrárias i Building and construction Biotecnología Biodiversidade Arquitetura, urbanismo e design Arquitetura e urbanismo
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: marta.camarero@urv.cat juanamaria.tierno@urv.cat anaines.renta@urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-6116-0882 0000-0002-1027-7332 0000-0002-0145-5141
Record's date: 2023-08-05
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/23/10203
Licence document URL: http://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Sustainability. 12 (23): 1-18
APA: Renta-Davids AI; Camarero-Figuerola M; Tierno-García JM (2020). Assessment of the quality education awareness competence of pre-service educators using vignettes. Sustainability, 12(23), 1-18. DOI: 10.3390/su122310203
Article's DOI: 10.3390/su122310203
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2020
Publication Type: Journal Publications
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