Integrating digital learning platforms to raise awareness of environmental sustainability among teachers
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https://doi.org/10.52152/800005Keywords:
management; Learning platform; Environment; Sustainable development; TeacherAbstract
At present, teachers generally lack the systematic concept of environmentally sustainable development in environmental education, especially in higher teacher education. The curriculum fails to integrate environmental education content effectively, resulting in the lack of environmental science quality teachers. This paper presents the importance of integrating digital learning platforms to increase teachers' awareness of environmental sustainability. According to the data collected through questionnaires and interviews, 37.50% of the respondents said that the organizational management mechanism for the development of teachers' environmental sustainability concept is generally perfect, 34.17% of the respondents said that the school's organizational management mechanism is relatively imperfect, and 16.67% of the respondents said that the organizational management mechanism under the study is very imperfect. The proportion of those who think it is relatively perfect is 10.00%, and the proportion of those who think it is very perfect is only 1.67%. The environmental awareness of teachers is closely related to the quality of their education. The experimental results show that after training and the use of digital learning platforms, the environmental awareness of teachers has been significantly improved and can be better integrated into classroom teaching. In addition, the results of regression analysis show that there is a significant positive correlation between teachers' sustainable development knowledge and their sustainable development literacy, especially the closest relationship between climate change knowledge and teacher quality. The linear regression model of sustainable development knowledge on sustainable development literacy did not pass the F-test (F=1.741, P=0.069>0.05), indicating that there was no direct relationship between sustainable development knowledge indicators and teachers' sustainable development literacy. Therefore, it is not possible to analyze the relationship between the variables of sustainable development knowledge and sustainable development literacy.
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