What do Youth Really Care for? Towards Ethical Education, Education for Sustainable Development and Youth Values

Anna  Sádovská

doi:10.21697/fp.2019.2.39

Published: 2020-01-16

Vol. 9 No. 2/2 (2019)

What do Youth Really Care for? Towards Ethical Education, Education for Sustainable Development and Youth Values

Anna Sádovská

Pedagogical Forum

Section: Colloquia

https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2019.2.39

Abstract

Article contains some thoughts and ideas on how education for sustainable development can be included in school education and its interconnection with Ethical Education that could become a school subject, in which education for sustainable development is developed. Results of research focused on pupils´ values oriented on environmental care and their correlation with self-perceived prosocial behaviour and the so-called social pessimism are presented. These results show a significant correlation between hedonism and universalism, between self-perceived prosocial behaviour and universalism. It was found that a lower scale of social pessimism correlates with a higher scale of values of universalism.

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Ethical Education; sustainable development; youth; values

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Sádovská , A. . (2020). What do Youth Really Care for? Towards Ethical Education, Education for Sustainable Development and Youth Values. Pedagogical Forum, 9(2/2), 205–218. https://doi.org/10.21697/fp.2019.2.39

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Anna Sádovská

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Faculty of Education Trnava University in Trnava Slovakia Slovakia

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Anna Sádovská– PhD, her interests are focused on methodology of Ethical Education, Moral Education, educational counselling and multicultural education in her research and educational activities. She also researches prosocial behaviour and moral reasoning of pupils, field of perception of cultural diversity by pupils and inclusion of pupils in mainstream schools. As a member of Central Committee for Ethical Education she has taken part in improving of educational content of Ethical Education. E-mail-Address:anna.sadovska@gmail.com.