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Harmoinen, Sari; Koivu, Katri; Pääsky, Leena – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2020
In this study, the authors analyze how students from the University of Oulu (N=1585) reflect on their possibilities to affect climate matters through social activity. The data was collected with an online survey in the autumn of 2019 and was analyzed with quantitative and qualitative methods. Readiness for climate actions in social activity was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Readiness, Social Change
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Knif, Leena; Kairavuori, Seija – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2020
This article presents a discussion about primary school visual arts education from the point of view of social sustainability and in the context of teacher education in Finland. The study focuses on the student teachers' understanding and pedagogic thinking of the equality construction in visual arts. In this case study the research data comprises…
Descriptors: Art Education, Visual Arts, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
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Keinonen, Tuula; Palmberg, Irmeli; Kukkonen, Jari; Yli-Panula, Eija; Persson, Christel; Vilkonis, Rytis – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2016
This study aims to find higher education students' perceptions about environmental issues and how the perceptions are related to perceptions of media coverage. This study investigates higher education students' perceptions of the seriousness of environmental issues and their relation to perceptions of media coverage. Higher education students…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Conservation (Environment), Pollution
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Makrakis, Vassilios – Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education, 2012
With the development of science and technology, a basically optimistic ideology of progress has emerged. This deterministic attitude has been challenged in recent decades as a result of harmful side-effects generated by the way technology and science have been approached and used. The study presented here is a part of a larger international and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Technological Advancement, Ideology, Political Attitudes