Learning solidarity through the Sustainable Development Goals: An experience with future primary school teachers
Keywords:
Sustainable Development Goals –SDG; school activities design; students of the Primary Education Degree.Abstract
Within the framework of social responsibility that universities have to assume and articulate in their vision and mission, the Cooperation Unit of the University of Alicante (UA) has called for the integration of the Sustainable Development Goals-ODS in the curricular plans of the students of this institution. Responding to this impulse towards solidarity, this communication
presents the actions carried out by the authors and the results obtained. The findings of this case study with students of the Primary Education Teacher Degree show the positive response of teachers in initial training and their preparation to integrate the SDGs in school classrooms.
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