The Impact of Lessons Addressing Sustainability on Vocational College Students’ Attitudes Towards Sustainability
Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The great importance that topics such as environmental protection and sustainability currently have for teenagers cannot be ignored. In addition to the Fridays for Future movement, the Shell Youth Study also confirms the personal involvement of young people with regard to the issue of sustainability. Recently conducted studies have demonstrated the immense influence of school on students and their attitudes towards sustainability. The combined effect of this positive impact of school lessons and the high level of personal involvement of teenagers or students regarding the topic of sustainability reveals a research topic that is addressed in the study at hand. Hereby, the focus lies on a group of students that is often overlooked in this context: students in vocational colleges. Using a survey consisting of 39 participants, the effect that teaching the topic of sustainability has on their attitudes towards this topic was investigated. To this end, two differently de-signed lessons were taught. The lesson concepts differ in their orientation: within the first one, the students dealt with sustainability from a consumer perspective; in the other, they dealt with sustainability from a company perspective. The evaluation of the questionnaires based on differently oriented dilemmas was carried out by means of a Wilcoxon signed-rank test.
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4285156133