Sustainability in primary education in Spain: An approach through textbooks
Autor
Arrebola Haro, José Carlos
Martínez Medina, Ramón
Editor
European Association of Geographers (EUROGEO)Fecha
2019Materia
Education for SustainabilityTextbook analysis
Primary Education
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The great development of the last decades, especially in developed countries, has led to the emergence of environmental problems that have made essential to promote sustainable development. Proof of itis the emphasis placed on Education for Sustainability by the United Nations and the increaseof the specific weight of these issues in nationals’educational curricula, as reflected in recent educational reforms, as it has happened in Spain. In this paper it is studiedhow the Spanishtextbooks of Primary Education approach sustainable development, also performing an analysis of the activities related to this concept that are included in them.To carry out the relevant analysis it has been adapted an instrument in which three categories have been established for each textbook ‘identification, characterization and how sustainability is treated’. The results suggest that there is no ideal book, and that the suitability would depend on the teacher's criterion.