Environmental Education in Pre-Service Teacher Training: A Literature Review of Existing Evidence

• Authors: Olaya Álvarez-García , Jaume Sureda-Negre , Rubén Comas-Forgas
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The importance of pre-service teacher training regarding environmental education (EE) has been vastly demonstrated. This systematic review examined the existing evidence from studies evaluating and analysing the relationship between EE, including environmental competences and pre-service primary school teacher training. The literature review performed included 24 documents (22 peer reviewed journal articles and two doctoral theses). The strategy followed consisted in locating documents by a reliable search strategy; establishing the criteria for the selection of documents to analyse from the documents located and rigorously analysing the documents selected based on clear and precise criteria and dimensions. In general terms, the literature review analysis has emphasised the lack of environmental competences amongst pre-service teacher students and the gaps in the teacher training curriculums regarding EE. The overall scarcity of research in this area, jointly with certain gaps and methodological limitations, affirms the need for strengthening the evidence base.

Keywords

EN

environmental education; pre-service teacher training; education for sustainable development; environmental competencies; literature review

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 17
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 72-85

Dates

published

2015-06-01

online

2015-10-06

Contributors

author

Olaya Álvarez-García

• University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

author

Jaume Sureda-Negre

• University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

author

Rubén Comas-Forgas

• University of the Balearic Islands, Spain

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/jtes-2015-0006