Education for Sustainable Development: Toward Quality and Inclusive Education for All
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: science education; environmental education; ESD; teacher education; STEM education
Interests: science/STEM education; chemistry education; higher order thinking in science; measurement and evaluation; ESD
Interests: environmental education; science education; attitudes toward science as a subject; motivation to protect nature; alternative conception
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Education for sustainable development (ESD) covers education and integration between two or more disciplines in education toward sustainable development and eventually toward achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education. This multidisciplinary topic also covers important issues toward the development of education in this millennium, such as environmental education, green chemistry education, tourism education, geography education, STEM education, STEAM education, STREAM education, MII-STEM, inclusive education, and others.
The main topics that will be covered in this Special Issue are:
- Biology education;
- Chemistry education;
- Climate education;
- Critical and creative thinking;
- Decision making;
- Digital technologies;
- Earth science education;
- Engineering education;
- Environmental education;
- Economy education;
- Food and agriculture education;
- Geography education;
- Interdisciplinarity across sustainability in education;
- Medical and health education;
- School–industry–community partnerships in sustainability;
- Social science in sustainability;
- Socio-scientific reasoning and decision making;
- Space science education;
- STEM and environmental sustainability;
- Sustainability in stem disciplines;
- Tourism education;
- Inclusive education;
- Global citizenship and sustainability;
- Trends in ESD.
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Prof. Dr. Muhammet Usak
Prof. Dr. Kamisah Osman
Dr. Milan Kubiatko
Prof. Dr. Cem Birol
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- sustainable development
- STEM/STEAM education
- theory and practice for all
- decision making
- quality education
- inclusive education
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