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Reorienting an Educational Psychology Course to Address Sustainability: A Case Study Cover

Reorienting an Educational Psychology Course to Address Sustainability: A Case Study

Open Access
|Jun 2013

Abstract

Due to the rapidly changing knowledge, teachers are supposed to teach their students ways of thinking and gathering information, not certain contents that would change shortly. In this sense, sustainability, which, in part, means the preparation of an individual who has the ability to practise critical thinking and to find creative solutions to the problems they face, is considered a must. This paper focuses on the integration of sustainability in curricula, specifically ways of introducing it to students in higher education institutions that provide highly specific and specialised knowledge and skills. So, this study presents a framework for reorienting a university course in the field of physiological psychology to address sustainability. The results of the quantitative analysis showed significant differences at the level of 0.001 between the pre- and post-testing of students’ knowledge of and attitudes towards sustainability in favour of the post-test. While results of qualitative analysis showed positive transformation of students’ practices health wise.

Language: English
Page range: 109 - 120
Published on: Jun 8, 2013
Published by: Daugavpils University
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

© 2013 Nehal Lotfy Khalil, published by Daugavpils University
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons License.