Education for Sustainable Development with Active Learning Methods in Primary Grades

Abstract

The current study presents the results of an experimental study implemented within the framework of a larger scientific work. The focus is on the dynamics in the knowledge and attitude of third and fourth grade students towards sustainable development within one academic year, through work with and without the author's didactic versions of short lessons related to the topics of sustainable development and based on methods and techniques for active learning. Participants in the study are 382 third- and fourth-grade students from different settlements in Bulgaria, divided into a control and an experimental group. The measurement was carried out using a proven author's methodology in the form of a questionnaire. The results testify that the systematic work with the proposed didactic versions leads to an increase in indicators in both dimensions under investigation. The described mathematical-statistical procedures confirm that the obtained results are not accidental, but are due to the applied experimental activity