Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Diğer, ss.1-55, 2023
The concept of education for sustainable development (ESD) has emerged as one of the important educational themes in the past two decades. Advocates of ESD believe that ESD can lead to socio-economic and environmental justice. UNESCO (2019) declared ESD as a key enabler to achieve 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Teacher education has a pivotal role in developing prospective teachers’ capacities to engage with education for sustainable development (ESD). Recognizing the key role of teacher education in promoting ESD in K-12 education, ESD has been made a part of Professional Standards for Teachers in some countries such as Scotland and Sweden. There is also an increasing interest among researchers (Bezeljak et al., 2020; Soysal and Ok, 2021) to investigate the impact of teacher education programmes on student teachers’ (prospective teachers) conceptions of ESD. However, there is lack of research on the influence of teacher education programme on student teachers’ conceptions of ESD and their future commitment for ESD. This timely, international research aimed at understanding student teachers’ conceptions of ESD, emphasis on ESD in teacher education programmes as perceived by student teachers, the importance the student teachers perceive of sustainable development as part of their future teaching, and the ways they intend to engage with ESD in future.