General information

The aim of the Students and Teachers on Sustainability research series, which has been held every year since 2020 in the framework of the Sustainability Thematic Week, is to find out students' and teachers' views on sustainability and related issues, and to assess the experiences of students who have participated in the Sustainability Thematic Week.

1. Students on sustainability

Each year, the Carpathian Basin student survey is carried out using a questionnaire available on smartphones and other digital smart devices. The online questionnaires, which take about 15 minutes to complete, have focused on the following topics over the years:

• environmental attitudes,
• knowledge of environmental problems,
• knowledge of solutions to environmental problems,
• opinions on sustainability,
• pro-environmental behavior,
• sustainable fashion,
• biodiversity,
• waste,
• experiences and opinions on the Sustainability Thematic Week.

The questionnaires used were not designed to identify individuals, only basic demographic and socio-economic data were collected. The research is carried out every year with the permission of the Faculty Research Ethics Committee of ELTE PPK.

2. Teachers on sustainability

We are conducting an online survey to get the views and feedback of teachers participating in the Sustainability Thematic Week. The questionnaire, which can be completed in up to 10 minutes, is voluntary and anonymous.

Cooperating partners

• Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Institute of People-Environment Transaction, Budapest
• University of Debrecen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Psychology
• Széchenyi István University Apáczai Csere János Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Győr
• University of Pannonia, Faculty of Humanities, Institute of Education
• Forsense Institute
• Pixrating Ltd.
• Hungarian National Committee for UNESCO - Committee of Experts on Education
• University of Nyíregyháza, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Department of Biology
• Neumann János University of Kecskemét
• Selye János University, Faculty of Teacher Education (Komárom, Slovakia)
• Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Sciences (Brno, Czech Republic)
• Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic (Prague, Czech Republic)

Sponsors

The research programme is funded by the State Secretariat for Public Education (predecessor of the Ministry of Human Resources), the National Office for Vocational and Adult Education, the Blue Planet Foundation and the Alliance for Fundamental Rights Foundation.

Publications

In Hungarian

Mónus, F., Bacskai, K., Varga, A., Berze, I. Z., Néder, K., & Dúll, A.

(2022). Factors determining the environmental awareness of primary and secondary school students based on a large sample survey of the Sustainability Week 2021. School Culture, 32(7), 47-68.

https://doi.org/10.14232/ISKKULT.2022.7.47

In English

Berze, I.Z.; Varga, A.; Mónus, F.; Néder, K.; Dúll, A.

Measuring Environmental Worldviews: Investigating the Dimensionality of the New Environmental Paradigm Scale for Children in a Large Central European Sample. Sustainability 2022, 14, 4595.

https://doi.org/10.3390/su14084595

Attila Varga, Iván Zsolt Berze, Ábel Zoltán Szabó, Hanna Emília Kristóf, Katalin Néder, Andrea Dúll

Schooling Could Be Too Much, Family and Friends Could Not - Associations of Pro-Environmental Behaviours and Intentions with Social Factors

European Conference of Educational Research 2022

https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/27/contribution/53098/

Attila Varga, Katalin Néder Iván Zsolt Berze, Andrea Dúll

Successes and Pitfalls in a National Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Program – The Case of the Sustainability Thematic Week in Hungary

European Conference of Educational Research 2021

https://eera-ecer.de/ecer-programmes/conference/26/contribution/50110/