Figure 5.
A conceptual diagram integrates 3 learning approaches for sustainability mindset development across schools and higher education institutions.The centre contains sustainability mindset development. Transformative learning, T L, curricular nuances, and autonomy-supportive learning connect through two-way interactions. Curricular nuances draw on education for sustainable development, E S D, principles including critical and ecological thinking, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives on responsible behaviour, relational accountability, and problem-identification and problem-solving. Autonomy-supportive learning includes socio-constructivism and socio-constructionism, self-regulation and self-directed learning, S D L, and slow pedagogy. Lifelong learning, L L L, surrounds the framework, linking schools with higher education institutions, H E I s, and teacher education through a continuous cycle.

Theory synthesis on developing sustainability mindsets

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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