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Environmental Education: High School Students’ Perception of Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 380

Special Issue Editors

Faculty of Education, J. E. Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem, 400 96 Ústí nad Labem-město, Czech Republic
Interests: environmental education; science education; attitudes toward science as a subject; motivation to protect nature; alternative conception
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Department of Preschool & Primary Education, Faculty of Education, J. E. Purkyne University, 40096 Usti nad Labem, Czech Republic
Interests: outdoor education; environmental education; environmental sensitivity

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to announce the Special Issue “Environmental Education: High School Students’ Perception of Sustainability”.

Sustainability is characterized as the avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance. The present situation with the Earth’s natural resources is critical. Mining and quarrying is associated with a number of environmental problems, not least in connection with the processing of extracted minerals. Surface and underground mining of minerals has a significant impact on the relief of the landscape. During operation, we do not avoid the accumulation of ballast (waste) material. Heaps of such waste (tailings) represent not only a visually disturbing element in the country, which will overgrow vegetation over time, but also a potential risk of leaching of minerals into the water. During the extraction of minerals, the water regime often changes. Water can accumulate in underground spaces created during mining, or surface heaps can prevent natural water runoff, creating artificial lakes and alternative runoff.

Many people have distorted ideas about the mining of natural resources, and they do not know about the impact of this process on nature, health, and quality of life. The manuscripts submitted to this Issue are expected to discuss the concept of sustainability with connection to environmental education. For this Special Issue, we welcome manuscripts analyzing:

- The anchoring of sustainability in the curriculum of environmental education with respect to national school policy and legislative processes;

- Quantitative or qualitative research with a focus on the perception of high school students on the sustainability and the elements which are creating the concept;

- Theoretical framework of the ways to change the conceptual understanding of the sustainability concept in the mind of high school students.

Dr. Milan Kubiatko
Dr. Tereza Strejčková
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • conceptual change
  • environmental education
  • high school students
  • perception
  • sustainability

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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