Education for Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility: Keys to initial teacher training from a systematic review
Abstract
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in initial teacher training means integrating elements of Social Responsibility into their training curriculum, towards a demanding adaptation and continuous social change as a way of understanding human development, explaining the establishment of social links and the construction of fairer and better human communities. In this sense, the purpose of this study is to collect and analyse the evidence from international and national scientific literature on the attitudes, competencies and training of future teachers towards ESD. For this reason, a qualitative methodological process has been applied based on a systematic review of the most important and influential scientific databases (WoS and Scopus). One of the most interesting results of the research work shows that there are favourable attitudes among university students of Education regarding sustainability and their commitment to the environment and to a fairer society. However, it is concluded that, among other aspects, in the academic curriculum of the Degrees in Education there is a deficit in the student formation towards the development of the necessary professional competencies to apply ESD in their professional teaching practice.
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