Integrating Sustainability Literacy Cultivation into STEM Education: A Pathway for Teacher Professional Development
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In the context of intensifying climate change, depletion of natural resources, and biodiversity loss, education has the responsibility for fostering sustainability literacy in future citizens. Sustainability literacy, one of the key 21st-century competencies, enables the individual learners to understand the interconnections between the environmental, economic, and social dimensions of sustainable development, as well as to make informed decisions in complex real-world situations (Evans et al., 2017).
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Awad, M. J., Al Kaabi, N. A., & Al Awadhi, M. A. (2025). STEM and sustainability: Shaping future eco-leaders. In E. Alqodsi & A. Abdallah (Eds.), Legal Frameworks and Educational Strategies for Sustainable Development (pp. 261-284). IGI Global. DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-2987-0.ch014
Barth, M., & Rieckmann, M. (2016). State of the art in research on higher education for sustainable development. In M. Barth, G. Michelsen, M. Rieckmann, & I. Thomas (Eds.), Routledge handbook of higher education for sustainable development (pp. 100-113). Routledge.
Chan, M.-N., & Nagatomo, D. (2022). Study of STEM for sustainability in design education: Framework for student learning and outcomes with design for a disaster project. Sustainability, 14(1), 312. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su14010312
Evans, N., Stevenson, R. B., Lasen, M., Ferreira, J.-A., & Davis, J. (2017). Approaches to embedding sustainability in teacher education: A synthesis of the literature. Teaching and Teacher Education, 63, 405-417. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2017.01.013
Fathurohman, I., Amri, M. F., Septiyanto, A., & Riandi. (2023). Integrating STEM-based education for sustainable development (ESD) to promote quality education: A systematic literature review. Jurnal Penelitian Pendidikan IPA, 9(11), 1052-1059. DOI: https://doi.org/10.29303/jppipa.v9i11.4430
Ferreira, J. A., Evans, N. S., Davis, J. M., & Stevenson, R. B. (2019). Learning to Embed Sustainability in Teacher Education. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9536-9
Sihombing, R. A., Rochintaniawati, D., Agustin, R. R., Muslim, & Rahman, T. (2025). STEM-based teaching materials to support scientific literacy and sustainability awareness: A critical review. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology, 13(3), 597-622. DOI: https://doi.org/10.46328/ijemst.4790.
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Tang, Y. (2026). Integrating Sustainability Literacy Cultivation into STEM Education: A Pathway for Teacher Professional Development. Science Insights Education Frontiers, 34(1), 5403–5405. https://doi.org/10.15354/sief.26.co045
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