Understanding Sustainability with Pedagogical Practice - A Contribution from Geography Education

This book shares with an international audience of teachers, scholars, and policymakers the experience of pedagogical practices to facilitate sustainability in the world. Sustainability is seen here as a journey toward the end state of sustainable development. Therefore, the authors contribute different roads to engage teachers and students with pedagogical discourse. Overall, the book demonstrates the value of powerful knowledge through action-oriented learning based on a bottom-up process. Consequently, pedagogical practices are understood as the instructional approaches based on a social constructivist model in which active learning is performed with student-to-student engagement.
Secondary teachers in social sciences and university professors in geography find the study to be a valuable source of stimulation for incorporating new ideas and resolving common problems in their learning and teaching environments. Education policymakers around the world also benefit from the only publication that presents international perspectives on geographical knowledge related to sustainability.
The contributing authors are experienced scientists in the field of geography education who are giving special attention to pedagogical practices that promote new directions toward sustainable thinking.
This book is the first outcome of an international collaboration officially established in 2023 between the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University and the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth.


Osvaldo Muñiz Solari is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University, USA. His major research interests in geography education are new technologies for global collaboration, learning strategies, and recontextualization of knowledge. He is an advisory member of the International Geographical Union-Commission on Geographical Education steering committee, and a member of the US national section of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History.

Gabriele Schrüfer is a professor and the chair of Didactics of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her major research interests in geography education are education for sustainable development, global learning, intercultural learning, decolonization of Africa in geography lessons, and the learning of geography in the age of digitality. She founded the Center for Global Learning at the University of Bayreuth and chairs the working group for the Orientation Framework on Global Development for the subject of geography. She is also a member of the Cluster of Excellence 'Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies'.