Exploring sustainable development perceptions among higher education students: An empirical study on knowledge, attitudes, and behaviours

IF 3.7 Q2 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI:10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100223
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Higher education institutions have a role to play in developing sustainability skills and changing students' attitudes and behaviour towards sustainability issues and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This article aims to explore the knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of higher education students towards sustainability and understand how these vary in line with gender, age, level of education, the field of study and familiarity with the SDGs. A questionnaire survey was carried out among higher education students. A sample of 716 students from different European countries and Türkiye was obtained. The results show that the relationship between students' knowledge of sustainability and their behaviour towards sustainability issues is partly mediated by their attitudes towards sustainability. The practical implications of this study are that it highlights the need to strengthen education on sustainable development and the SDGs in all areas and at all levels of higher education and to provide sound training in this field from the moment students enter higher education. Although knowledge and attitudes towards sustainability are well developed, higher education institutions must train students to change their behaviour.

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探索高校学生的可持续发展观念:关于知识、态度和行为的实证研究
高等教育机构在培养可持续发展技能、改变学生对可持续发展问题和可持续发展目标 (SDGs)的态度和行为方面可以发挥作用。本文旨在探讨高等院校学生对可持续发展的认识、态度和行为,并了解这些认识、态度和行为因性别、年龄、教育水平、学习领域和对可持续发展目标的熟悉程度而有所不同。对高等教育学生进行了问卷调查。调查样本包括来自不同欧洲国家和土耳其的 716 名学生。结果表明,学生的可持续发展知识与他们在可持续发展问题上的行为之间的关系部分地受到他们对可持续发展的态度的影响。这项研究的实际意义在于,它强调了在高等教育的各个领域和各个层次加强可持续发展和可持续发展目标教育的必要性,以及从学生进入高等教育的那一刻起就在这一领域提供良好培训的必要性。虽然对可持续发展的知识和态度已经形成,但高等教育机构必须培训学生改变他们的行为。
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Cleaner and Responsible Consumption
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption Social Sciences-Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
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