Students’ Participation in Search for Sustainability: A Case Study from Lithuania

Q2 Social Sciences

Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability Pub Date : 2019-12-01 DOI:10.2478/jtes-2019-0017

Asta Valackienė, B. Kairienė

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Abstract

Abstract While many studies explain the contributions of economics and environmental protection to social sustainability, and discuss how to achieve sustainable development (SD) through education, less is known about change processes in order to ensure the sustainable development at school. The authors emphasize that as active members of the school community, students should get involved in the school transformation processes. However, is a contemporary school ready for this? The study aims at answering the following questions: How are students as active participants of educational relationship involved in the change processes and how should their involvement be managed seeking sustainability by examining the education institution located in Lithuania? The findings demonstrate that the process of the student involvement in the school transformation process has been explored applying the qualitative approach strategies (integrated theoretical model for change management and case study) from two points of view: theoretical (by analyzing the documents governing the school transformation process) and practical (by analyzing the reflections of the school principal’s in-depth interview concerning the student involvement in school transformation processes).

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学生参与寻求可持续发展：立陶宛案例研究

虽然许多研究解释了经济和环境保护对社会可持续发展的贡献，并讨论了如何通过教育实现可持续发展(SD)，但对确保学校可持续发展的变革过程知之甚少。作者强调，作为学校社区的积极成员，学生应该参与到学校的转型过程中。然而，当代学校是否为此做好了准备?该研究旨在回答以下问题:学生作为教育关系的积极参与者如何参与变革过程，如何通过审查位于立陶宛的教育机构来管理他们的参与，以寻求可持续性?研究结果表明，运用定性方法策略(变革管理综合理论模型和案例研究)，从两个角度探讨了学生参与学校转型过程的过程:理论(通过分析管理学校转型过程的文件)和实践(通过分析学校校长关于学生参与学校转型过程的深度访谈的反思)。

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Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability Social Sciences-Education

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期刊介绍： Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability (JTEFS) is a forum for the meeting of different views, ideas and research to promote the further development of studies and practice of teacher education in all areas of formal and non-formal education in relation to sustainability. Contributors are encouraged to submit articles with relevance to content and forms of teacher professional and academic education, problems and tasks of teacher in-service education and other issues to help teachers to become responsible mentors for the sustainable development.