Education for sustainable development - from students' and geography teachers' knowledge to educational activities

• Authors: Joanna Angiel , Wojciech Pokojski

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the topic of academic education for sustainable development (ESD). A diagnostic survey was made in a form of a questionnaire in three groups of respondents: active geography teachers, participants of postgraduate program preparing for teaching geography and undergraduate students majoring in geography. The conducted research revealed how the groups of respondents difer in regards perception and preparedness to use of SD and ESD in school geographical education

Keywords

EN

Education for sustainable development; geography teachers; professional development of geography teachers

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 23
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 47-52

Dates

published

2019

Contributors

author

Joanna Angiel

• Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies University of Warsaw, Poland

author

Wojciech Pokojski

• Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies University of Warsaw, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/mgrsd-2018-0026

Biblioteka Nauki

2137043