Education for Sustainable Development in Primary Education Textbooks—An Educational Approach from Statistical and Probabilistic Literacy

Based on the Stochastic Education Approach to Sustainability Education, the statistical and probability tasks for sustainability education in a collection of primary school mathematics textbooks in Chile (6–14 years old) were analyzed. A content analysis was carried out based on four categories: con...

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Published in:Sustainability 2021-03, Vol.13 (6), p.3115
Main Authors: Vásquez, Claudia, García-Alonso, Israel, Seckel, María José, Alsina, Ángel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Attitudes
Citizenship
Classrooms
Content analysis
Curricula
Decision making
Education
Educational objectives
Environmental education
Learning
Literacy
Mathematics
Memory
Reflective teaching
Statistical analysis
Statistics
Stochasticity
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Teacher education
Teaching
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Summary:Based on the Stochastic Education Approach to Sustainability Education, the statistical and probability tasks for sustainability education in a collection of primary school mathematics textbooks in Chile (6–14 years old) were analyzed. A content analysis was carried out based on four categories: contexts for sustainability, levels of articulation, cognitive demand, and authenticity. The results show that: (1) there is a low presence of contexts for sustainability; (2) the tasks are not articulated to develop any of the Sustainable Development Goals; (3) there is a clear predominance of memorization tasks; (4) the teaching of statistics and probability in textbooks is not aligned with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). These results are the roadmap for a new educational approach that allows the design of statistical and probability tasks to educate for sustainability in Primary Education. This new approach should promote that, through the progressive development of statistical and probabilistic literacy, students understand the different problems (social, economic and environmental) that we are faced with, as well as the measures that must be adopted to transform and act for a more sustainable world.
ISSN:2071-1050
2071-1050
DOI:10.3390/su13063115