Can Education for Sustainable Development Change Entrepreneurship Education to Deliver a Sustainable Future?

Education for sustainable development beyond attitude change

Purpose – Many education for sustainable development (ESD) programs are designed to change attitudes and values toward the natural environment. However, psychological research indicates that several factors in addition to attitude influence behavior, including contextual support, social norms, action difficulty, and habitual behavior. Thus, if attitude change is to translate into altered behavi...

Sustainable, Development, Education and Globalization

Good Practices in Education for Sustainable Development: Teacher Education Institutions

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Learning for the Future? Effects of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) on Teacher Education Students

Currently, politicians, university representatives, scholars and leading NGOs share a strong belief in the ability of educational systems to generate positive attitudes to sustainable development (SD) among citizens, with the idea of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as perhaps the most apparent expression of this conviction. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether ESD might h...

Improving Science Education for Sustainable Development

I n recent issues of noteworthy journals, natural scientists have argued for the improvement of science education [1–4]. Such pleas reflect the growing awareness that high-quality science education is required not only for sustaining a lively scientific community that is able to address global problems like global warming and pandemics, but also to bring about and maintain a high level of scien...