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Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Education and Approaches".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2019) | Viewed by 10572

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vasiliki Brinia

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Scientific Responsible of Teacher Education Programme, Department of Informatics, School of Information Sciences and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, 104 34 Athens, Greece
Interests: art-based education; project-based learning; cultural heritage and education; social entrepreneurship; experimental; collaborative and innovative way of learning
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Dr. Dimitrios Halkiotis

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Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece
Interests: Educational Policy for sustainability; Economics of Education; Growth Economics; Economics for Sustainable Development; Entrepreneurship

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleague,

Sustainability always has been a great concern regarding the world’s economic growth given the finite nature of the planet’s natural resources that provide the input for modern economies and where the waste output accumulates. It has become clear over the last decades that the world needs to find a way to harmonize ecology with prosperity. The idea of Education for Sustainable Development has recently been at the forefront of the education field, since the world has so far failed to efficiently tackle the ‘high growth–high carbon’ trend and the use of natural resources. This failure of today’s economies to efficiently address sustainability could be regarded as a failure of the current educational system, which does not sufficiently provide people with innovative ways of thinking in order to become responsible citizens capable of critical thinking and able to seek new business opportunities that will achieve economic well-being while retaining the health of our planet. Nowadays, we accept that there is a lack in education pedagogies with regard to sustainability competences. As a result, a new pedagogy has to be introduced that will provide people with the key competences to address sustainability. The aim of this special issue of Sustainability on “Vocational Education and Training for Sustainable Development” in the section “Sustainable Education and Approaches” is to propose innovative pedagogical approaches in a promising way to address the problems in education with regard to sustainability.

Dr. Vasiliki Brinia
Dr. Dimitrios Halkiotis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Pedagogy for Sustainable Development
  • Digital Transformation and Sustainable Development
  • Experimental ways of thinking
  • Project-based learning
  • Art-based practices
  • Entrepreneurship for sustainability

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Examining the Impact of a Gamified Entrepreneurship Education Framework in Higher Education
by Foteini Grivokostopoulou, Konstantinos Kovas and Isidoros Perikos
Sustainability 2019, 11(20), 5623; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205623 - 12 Oct 2019
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Entrepreneurship education constitutes a top priority in policy agendas across the globe as a means to promote economic growth, fight unemployment and create social capital. An important premise of entrepreneurship education is that it can be learned and students can be taught to [...] Read more.
Entrepreneurship education constitutes a top priority in policy agendas across the globe as a means to promote economic growth, fight unemployment and create social capital. An important premise of entrepreneurship education is that it can be learned and students can be taught to formulate entrepreneurial mentality, skills and competencies, something that can result in the formulation of startups and business initiatives. Given the importance of entrepreneurship, the necessity to formulate efficient entrepreneurship education frameworks and training programs arise. In this work, we present the design of an entrepreneurship educational environment that is based on learning in 3D virtual worlds. Innovative 3D virtual reality technologies were utilized to provide immersive and efficient learning activities. Various topics of entrepreneurship education courses were designed and formulated to offer students the opportunity to obtain theoretical knowledge of entrepreneurship. The 3D virtual reality educational environment utilizes pedagogical approaches that are based on gamification principles, allowing students to study in immersive ways as well as in game-based learning activities on real challenges that can be found in business environments. The game-based learning activities can help students gain necessary skills, helping them to tackle everyday obstacles on their entrepreneurial pathways. An experimental study was performed to explore the learning efficiency of the environment and the gamified learning activities as well as assess their learning impact on student’s motivation, attitude, and overall learning experience. The evaluation study revealed that the framework offers efficient gamified learning activities that increase students’ motivation and assist in the formulation of entrepreneurship mentality, skills and competencies. Full article
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How to Instill Cultural Values in the New Generation through Cultural Promenades and Ancient Drama: A Field Research
by Vasiliki Brinia, Paraskevi Psoni and Eleni-Konstantina Ntantasiou
Sustainability 2019, 11(6), 1758; https://doi.org/10.3390/su11061758 - 23 Mar 2019
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The present study investigates whether experiential learning through cultural promenades and ancient Greek drama can constitute an effective method of instilling cultural values in the new generation. For this reason, field research was conducted in the broader area of Acropolis in Athens, Greece. [...] Read more.
The present study investigates whether experiential learning through cultural promenades and ancient Greek drama can constitute an effective method of instilling cultural values in the new generation. For this reason, field research was conducted in the broader area of Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Qualitative research through in-depth interviews followed, in order to record 42 student teachers’ perceptions after their own experiential contact with the method of cultural promenades. This research method with teacher candidates during their vocational training as future teachers is of great importance, as it will indicate whether the method of instilling cultural values through cultural promenades and ancient Greek drama is effective enough to be adopted in later teacher candidates’ teaching in schools. The choice of the sample is strategic, since the teaching specialty of the majority is economics and management, and thus teachers get acquainted with an innovative experiential methodology on teaching economic and cultural sustainability, which—according to literature—are interconnected. The findings reported valuable insights on the effectiveness of the said teaching methodology. The present research is the first that focuses on the descriptive interrelations among cultural promenades, experiential learning, cultural values, and sustainability, and thus it provides policy makers and teachers with invaluable insights. Full article
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