Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula

The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the European Union’s strategies both set goals for solving environmental challenges faced by societies and communities. As part of solving these challenges, both the UN and the EU stress the development of entrepreneurial and innovative e...

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Autores principales:	Jaana Seikkula-Leino, Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir, Marcia Håkansson-Lindqvist, Mats Westerberg, Sofia Eriksson-Bergström
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	entrepreneurship education sustainability sustainable education teacher education curriculum Nordic education Environmental effects of industries and plants TD194-195 Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 Environmental sciences GE1-350
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:183480be11ca4e0eb1389233963f0ddc2021-11-25T19:04:41ZResponding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula10.3390/su1322128082071-1050https://doaj.org/article/183480be11ca4e0eb1389233963f0ddc2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/22/12808https://doaj.org/toc/2071-1050The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the European Union’s strategies both set goals for solving environmental challenges faced by societies and communities. As part of solving these challenges, both the UN and the EU stress the development of entrepreneurial and innovative education. Teacher education plays a crucial role in these efforts, since teachers and teacher educators have a significant impact on educating citizens far into the future. In this research, we studied how Nordic (Finnish, Swedish, and Icelandic) primary teacher education curricula involve entrepreneurial, sustainable, and pro-environmental education. For this study, the authors analyzed the B.Ed. curricula of three academic teacher education institutions in Spring 2021. We used qualitative content analysis as our research method. According to the results, all three curricula incorporated both entrepreneurship education and sustainable development to some extent, although often not very explicitly. Given the urgency of problems such as global climate change, the educational goals and contents in these curricula related to entrepreneurial education and sustainable development are very limited. The idea of integrating environmental/sustainable and entrepreneurship education could be promoted in the future more explicitly, with these interdisciplinary educational themes emphasised more strongly in the curricula and education policies.Jaana Seikkula-LeinoSvanborg R. JónsdóttirMarcia Håkansson-LindqvistMats WesterbergSofia Eriksson-BergströmMDPI AGarticleentrepreneurship educationsustainabilitysustainable educationteacher educationcurriculumNordic educationEnvironmental effects of industries and plantsTD194-195Renewable energy sourcesTJ807-830Environmental sciencesGE1-350ENSustainability, Vol 13, Iss 12808, p 12808 (2021)
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spellingShingle	entrepreneurship education sustainability sustainable education teacher education curriculum Nordic education Environmental effects of industries and plants TD194-195 Renewable energy sources TJ807-830 Environmental sciences GE1-350 Jaana Seikkula-Leino Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir Marcia Håkansson-Lindqvist Mats Westerberg Sofia Eriksson-Bergström Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula
description	The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the European Union’s strategies both set goals for solving environmental challenges faced by societies and communities. As part of solving these challenges, both the UN and the EU stress the development of entrepreneurial and innovative education. Teacher education plays a crucial role in these efforts, since teachers and teacher educators have a significant impact on educating citizens far into the future. In this research, we studied how Nordic (Finnish, Swedish, and Icelandic) primary teacher education curricula involve entrepreneurial, sustainable, and pro-environmental education. For this study, the authors analyzed the B.Ed. curricula of three academic teacher education institutions in Spring 2021. We used qualitative content analysis as our research method. According to the results, all three curricula incorporated both entrepreneurship education and sustainable development to some extent, although often not very explicitly. Given the urgency of problems such as global climate change, the educational goals and contents in these curricula related to entrepreneurial education and sustainable development are very limited. The idea of integrating environmental/sustainable and entrepreneurship education could be promoted in the future more explicitly, with these interdisciplinary educational themes emphasised more strongly in the curricula and education policies.
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author	Jaana Seikkula-Leino Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir Marcia Håkansson-Lindqvist Mats Westerberg Sofia Eriksson-Bergström
author_facet	Jaana Seikkula-Leino Svanborg R. Jónsdóttir Marcia Håkansson-Lindqvist Mats Westerberg Sofia Eriksson-Bergström
author_sort	Jaana Seikkula-Leino
title	Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula
title_short	Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula
title_full	Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula
title_fullStr	Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula
title_full_unstemmed	Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula
title_sort	responding to global challenges through education: entrepreneurial, sustainable, and pro-environmental education in nordic teacher education curricula
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/183480be11ca4e0eb1389233963f0ddc
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Responding to Global Challenges through Education: Entrepreneurial, Sustainable, and Pro-Environmental Education in Nordic Teacher Education Curricula

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