scholarly journals Holistic Approaches to Develop Sustainability and Research Competencies in Pre-Service Teacher Training

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 3698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Albareda-Tiana ◽  
Salvador Vidal-Raméntol ◽  
Maria Pujol-Valls ◽  
Mónica Fernández-Morilla
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Holistic Approaches ◽  
Research Competencies ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into effect, both UNESCO and other international organisations recommend empowering youth to implement the SDGs in universities. Getting started with the SDGs at university level is of special relevance in pre-service teacher training since future teachers are powerful agents of change in the lives of young people. Future teachers need to acquire competencies in sustainability to be able to promote meaningful changes in sustainable behaviour. To that end, holistic approaches to facilitate their acquisition need to be developed. The aim of this study is to explore which teaching methodologies are suitable for the development of competencies in sustainability and research in Higher Education (HE). The participants taking part in the study are students in pre-service teacher training. The experimental educational model used for the development of competencies in sustainability and research consists of a methodological sequence of Project-Oriented Learning (POL) and a Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Sustainable Food. This study provides evidence that POL is an excellent methodology for developing competencies in sustainability and facilitates the relationship between sustainability and research competencies.

scholarly journals Holistic approaches to develop Sustainable Competencies in Pre-service Teacher Training

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Albareda-Tiana ◽  
Salvador Vidal-Raméntol ◽  
Maria Pujol-Valls ◽  
Mónica Fernández-Morilla
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Training ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Holistic Approaches ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Since the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) came into effect, both UNESCO and other international organisations recommend empowering youth to implement the SDGs in universities. Getting started with the SDGs at university level is of special relevance in pre-service teacher training since future teachers are powerful agents of change in the lives of young people. Future teachers need to acquire competencies in sustainability to be able to promote meaningful changes in sustainable behaviour. To that end, holistic approaches to facilitate their acquirement need to be developed. The aim of this study is to explore which teaching methodologies are suitable for the development of competencies in sustainability in Higher Education (HE) and how to empower students to take a leading role in implementing the SDGs in universities. The participants in the study are a group of 23 students in pre-service teacher training. The experimental educational model used for the development of sustainable competencies consists of a methodological sequence of Project-Oriented Learning (POL) and a Cross-disciplinary Workshop on Sustainable Food. This study provides evidence that a holistic approach is appropriate for developing sustainable competencies and contributes to empowering students to implement SDG 12 at their university.

scholarly journals Sustainability Education in Elementary Classrooms: Reported Practices of Alumni from a Pre-Service Teacher Course

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen G. Merritt ◽  
Leanna Archambault ◽  
Annie E. Hale
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Classrooms ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Read Aloud ◽  
Classroom Behaviors ◽  
Early Career Teachers ◽  
Instructional Resources ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Pre Service Teacher

Abstract The article reflects results from a web-based survey of early career teachers who had taken a required, hybrid course focused on sustainability science. Many alumni reported early efforts to integrate sustainability topics and ways of thinking into their K-8 classrooms. Teachers reported modeling of classroom behaviors that promoted sustainability more than implementing sustainability into the curriculum. Read-aloud books and videos were used frequently, suggesting the need for available high quality children’s books and videos on sustainability topics. Supports that were most helpful to teachers included school-wide initiatives, curricular and instructional resources, like-minded colleagues and supportive administrators. Lack of time and alignment with curricula were barriers that hindered some teachers’ progress, suggesting the importance of systemic curricular reform that brings awareness to the Sustainable Development Goals.

scholarly journals The Role of Smart Farming in Sustainable Development

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Siti Fatimahwati Pehin Dato Musa ◽  
Khairul Hidayatullah Basir ◽  
Edna Luah
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Food System ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Smart Farming ◽  
Development Goals

This paper intends to explore the development of agriculture in to smart farming and how smart farming can contribute to the sustainable development goals. The paper focuses on how smart farming can be imparted in sustainable agriculture by analyzing the environmental, economic and social impact. This paper applied a systematic literature review technique to assess published academic literature on smart farming and sustainable agriculture in Southeast Asia. The review identified that smart farming can lead to less environmental damage, lower cost and higher productivity and has the potential to create decent jobs for the youth ultimately leading to a sustainable food system.

scholarly journals Healthy and Sustainable Diets and Food Systems: the Key to Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 2?

Food Ethics ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Fanzo
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food Systems ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Sustainable Diets ◽  
Global Goal ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Food Security And Nutrition

Abstract The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are considered a unifying global goal setting agenda that every country is meant to achieve. One of those goals, SDG2, promises to ensure food security and nutrition within sustainable food systems. However, achieving that goal is riddled with uncertainty because of the way in which the world currently produces and consumes foods. The global trends of diets and the food systems that produce those diets suggest that they are neither healthy nor sustainable, which has implications for achieving SDG2. This paper characterizes the current state of global diets and food systems, the concept of “healthy and sustainable diets,” and the ethical considerations to achieving healthy and sustainable diets for sustainable development.

The Role of Smart Farming in Sustainable Development

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Agriculture ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Food System ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Smart Farming ◽  
Development Goals

This paper intends to explore the development of agriculture in to smart farming and how smart farming can contribute to the sustainable development goals. The paper focuses on how smart farming can be imparted in sustainable agriculture by analyzing the environmental, economic and social impact. This paper applied a systematic literature review technique to assess published academic literature on smart farming and sustainable agriculture in Southeast Asia. The review identified that smart farming can lead to less environmental damage, lower cost and higher productivity and has the potential to create decent jobs for the youth ultimately leading to a sustainable food system.

scholarly journals Food System and Water–Energy–Biodiversity Nexus in Nepal: A Review

Agronomy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roshan Subedi ◽  
Madhav Karki ◽  
Dinesh Panday
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Essential Components ◽  
Food And Nutrition ◽  
The Face ◽  
Development Goals

Water, energy, and biodiversity are essential components for building a sustainable food system in a developing country like Nepal. Green Revolution technologies and the package of practices largely ignored the role of ecosystem services, leaving a large population of small farmers’ food- and nutrition-insecure. Biodiversity, especially, agrobiodiversity is in decline and this vital cross-cutting element is less discussed and interlinked in nexus literature. The interlinking food system with water–energy–biodiversity nexus, therefore, is essential to achieve a resilient food system. It ensures the vital structures and functions of the ecosystem on which it is dependent are well protected in the face of increasing socio-economic and climatic stress. This paper reviews the food system of Nepal through the lens of the food–water–energy–biodiversity (FWEB) nexus to develop a more robust food system framework. From this approach, food system foresight can benefit from different nature-based solutions such as agro-ecosystem-based adaptation and mitigation and climate-resilient agro-ecological production system. We found that the FWEB nexus-based approach is more relevant in the context of Nepal where food and nutrition insecurity prevails among almost half of the population. Improvement in the food system requires the building of synergy and complementary among the components of FWEB nexus. Hence, we proposed a modified framework of food system foresight for developing resilience in a food system, which can be achieved with an integrated and resilient nexus that gives more emphasis to agro-ecological system-based solutions to make the food system more climate resilient. This framework can be useful in addressing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) numbers 1, 2, 3, 6, 13, and 15 and can also be used as a tool for food system planning based on a broader nexus.

scholarly journals Development of teachers’ professional skills in education for sustainable development

2021 ◽  
Vol 250 ◽  
pp. 07007
Author(s):  
Svetlana Tolstikova ◽  
Larisa Osechkina ◽  
Elena Tabolova ◽  
Galina Travinova
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Teacher Training ◽  
Age Differences ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Necessary Conditions ◽  
Education For Sustainable Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals

The article considers the skills and features of the personal development of a teacher in education for sustainable development (ESD). It contemplates over the influence of age differences on the formation of the professional and communicative culture of a specialist in higher education. Moreover, it describes the necessary conditions for the professional formation of the professional and communicative culture of a teacher in the development and promotion of her or him as a professional that is capable of raise the environmental awareness in students and help them to nourish their sustainable citizenship. In addition, it discusses the role of teacher training in education for sustainable development and stresses the importance of reorienting teacher training to take sustainability into account in the context of education policy and the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

scholarly journals Why and How Women in Business Can Make Innovations in Light of the Sustainable Development Goals

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Demartini
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Amartya Sen ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Women In Business ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Development Goals

In 1999, Amartya Sen wrote, “…women are increasingly seen, by men as well as women, as active agents of change: the dynamic promoters of social transformations that can alter the lives of both women and men” [...]

Sustainability-Related Food Labels

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniele Asioli ◽  
Jessica Aschemann-Witzel ◽  
Rodolfo M. Nayga
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Food Labels ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
State Of Research

The past decades have seen the development of a multitude of sustainability-related food labels aimed at reducing the existing information asymmetry between food practitioners and consumers regarding the sustainability impact on the food supply chain. Sustainability-related food labels can correct market failures and contribute to a more sustainable world. This review discusses the effectiveness of sustainability-related food labels in promoting more sustainable food consumption around the world. We start by discussing the sustainable development goals in the food area and the challenge of defining these labels. We then investigate the demand- and supply-side issues related to the effectiveness of such labels in promoting the sustainable development goals that the labels serve. Finally, we discuss the questions raised by the state of research and their implications for food practitioners, consumers, and policy makers. We then identify future research avenues.

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