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Learning Culture for Eco-Friendly Responsibilities: Emerging Trends and Practices
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Learning Culture for Eco-Friendly Responsibilities: Emerging Trends and Practices

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 6 June 2025 | Viewed by 5459

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Dr. Miftachul Huda

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Faculty of Human Sciences, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris, Tanjung Malim 35900, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia
Interests: digital ethics; learning technology; innovation; religion
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The strategic practice to achieve environmental awareness is stabilized through enhancing the learning culture in both schools and the community. The main aim of this Special Issue is to fulfil current demands, especially, assisting in developing eco-friendly responsibilities. Such ideas play a significant role in providing learners with the intellectual capacity to create an environmental awareness. Moreover, eco-friendly accountability could be further advanced through developing their trained skills in order to achieve and sustain a healthy community. As an attempt to empower the growth development of learners, the strategic role to expand the committed awareness of enhancing the skills to be developed and trained further should enforce a harmony between academic and environmental accountability. As a result, the strategic enhancement of promoting a healthy community is related to using the initiative to enhance the responsible management and awareness of creating a stabilized balance between human beings and natural resources. In this sense, the ongoing process of critically observing learning pathways in response to environmental circumstances may begin with enhancing the duties of managing its role to initiate an innovative learning culture. In order to achieve this, the strategic approach of empowerment at the school level to harness human potential can be further developed to advance sustainability goals towards eco-friendly responsibility engagement. From this perspective, attempts to strengthen a multi-task engagement to assist the environmental consciousness with the capacity to empower sustainable communities should be taken into consideration, in particular by enhancing the eco-friendly potential. This Special Issue examines eco-friendly practices to improve the health of communities through the education institution setting, both formal and informal. With the critical investigation of recent trends, beliefs and practices, a practice and theory framework can be advanced to further create an innovative learning culture. Such guidelines are offered to strengthen the link between environmental and social responsibilities in line with the sustainability goal achievement program. This Special Issue will contribute to enrich the knowledge and theoretical basis of sustainability, lifelong learning and social community. Topics may include, but are not limited to: field school model in childhood education; learning culture for healthy communities; eco-friendly responsibilities in the school setting; formal and informal education institutions for the field learning process; experience and skill development in field school; eco-friendly responsibilities and healthy communities; individual caring of environmental responsibility and social community; advancing the innovative implementation of sustainability goal achievement program; experiential learning of environmental sustainability for social community.

Dr. Miftachul Huda
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • learning culture
  • eco-friendly responsibilities
  • healthy community
  • present practice
  • future direction

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Exploring Attitudes toward Sustainability Education in a Group of Italian Preservice Teachers: The Role of Environmental Identity and Sense of Community Responsibility
by Francesco Sulla, Stefania Fantinelli, Giusi Antonia Toto, Guendalina Peconio and Ciro Esposito
Soc. Sci. 2024, 13(5), 241; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci13050241 (registering DOI) - 28 Apr 2024
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In the current educational context, international institutions are being called to rethink education and declining new strategies that aim to teach sustainable behaviors. From this perspective, the present study aims to investigate the attitudes towards the sustainability of trainee teachers, verifying their connection [...] Read more.
In the current educational context, international institutions are being called to rethink education and declining new strategies that aim to teach sustainable behaviors. From this perspective, the present study aims to investigate the attitudes towards the sustainability of trainee teachers, verifying their connection with psycho-social variables, such as environmental identity and sense of community responsibility, and exploring their most common dispositions. In total, 126 Italian preservice teachers were involved in a mixed method study where they were asked to complete a questionnaire and participated in focus groups. The use of a combination of quantitative–qualitative methodologies has allowed us to obtain in-depth information about sustainability education. Quantitative data showed a virtuous circular relationship between environmental identity, attitudes towards education for sustainability, and the sense of community responsibility. Qualitative data showed the high frequency of two key action verbs, avoid and respect, but no specific reference to the educational field. After creating the target concept ‘to teach’, we observed a worrying absence of lemmas related to emotional dimension, and that the communication perspective is set on adults’ point of view, rather than on pupils. Limitations, strengths, and practical implications have been extensively discussed, especially in relation to the field of teacher education. Full article
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Enhancing the Competitiveness of the Show Business Industry for Cultural Export as a Means of Creative Economy Development and Tourism Promotion in the Future New Normal Era: The Case of Thailand
by Chayapoj Lee-Anant, Therdchai Choibamroong and Boonnawat Srikhwan
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(12), 690; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12120690 - 18 Dec 2023
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The tourism industry is considered the greatest economic generator in Thailand. Nonetheless, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic thoroughly shifted its image of tourism stability and trustworthiness. The show business industry is an element of Thai tourism that attracts more than a million [...] Read more.
The tourism industry is considered the greatest economic generator in Thailand. Nonetheless, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic thoroughly shifted its image of tourism stability and trustworthiness. The show business industry is an element of Thai tourism that attracts more than a million tourists nationwide. The show business industry not only attracts quality multinational tourists as visitors, but also indirectly establishes ‘soft power’ with audiences. This research aimed to (1) study the alternative future scenario of Thailand’s cultural show business industry with respect to cultural export and the creative economy; (2) determine the competitive potential of Thailand’s show business industry by comparing it with the global show business industry; (3) examine the market demands and behaviors within Thailand’s cultural show business industry for cultural export and the creative economy; and (4) present a strategy for elevating the competitive potential of the show business industry for cultural export, promoting a creative economy and fostering tourism in the post-pandemic ‘New Normal’ era. The results of this study found that the ‘Alternative Future Scenario’ of Thailand’s cultural performance industry with respect to cultural exports and the creative economy consists of three scenarios: (1) a mass show business tourism industry, (2) an exclusive show business tourism industry, and (3) a new mega show business tourism industry. It also revealed the competitive potential of the Thai show business industry. By comparing it with the international performing arts industry in terms of competitiveness, it was found that the show business industry in Thailand meets world-class standards. Given its clear, outstanding, and unique culture and traditions, Thailand is ready to serve as a major cultural exporter via cultural performance. Furthermore, the data analysis revealed a total of 10 significant strategies for enhancing the competitiveness of the show business industry in Thailand. Full article
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Examining the Relationship between Environmental Education and Pro-Environmental Behavior in Regular Basic Education Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
by Edwin Gustavo Estrada-Araoz, Néstor Antonio Gallegos Ramos, Yolanda Paredes Valverde, Rosel Quispe Herrera and Jaime Mori Bazán
Soc. Sci. 2023, 12(5), 307; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12050307 - 18 May 2023
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In recent decades, a series of environmental problems such as pollution, climate change and the loss of biodiversity are being perceived. Given this context, the need to implement strategies arises, such as environmental education, to mitigate the mentioned problems. Therefore, the objective of [...] Read more.
In recent decades, a series of environmental problems such as pollution, climate change and the loss of biodiversity are being perceived. Given this context, the need to implement strategies arises, such as environmental education, to mitigate the mentioned problems. Therefore, the objective of this research was to determine if environmental education is related to the pro-environmental behavior of regular basic education students in the Peruvian Amazon. The research approach was quantitative, the design was non-experimental, and the scope was cross-sectional correlational. The sample was obtained of 293 students of the seventh cycle of regular basic education who were administered the Environmental Education Questionnaire and the Environmental Behavior Questionnaire, instruments with adequate metric properties. According to the results, the students were characterized by perceiving that the environmental education that was implemented in the educational institutions was partially adequate. Similarly, pro-environmental behavior was found to be unusual. On the other hand, it was found that the Pearson correlation coefficient between both variables was 0.877, and the p-value was below the significance level (p < 0.05). It was concluded that there is a direct and significant relationship between environmental education and the pro-environmental behavior of regular basic education students in the Peruvian Amazon. Full article
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