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June 4, 2021SustainabilityOpen Access

Fostering Sustainability and Critical Thinking through Debate—A Case Study

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ARAlfonso Rodríguez-DonoAHAntoni Hernández-Fernändez

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Overview

Randomized trial assesses debate's effectiveness in enhancing critical thinking and sustainability in engineering students, suggesting positive learning outcomes.

Key Points

  • The aim is to evaluate how effective debate is as a teaching method for fostering sustainability and critical thinking in engineering students.
  • Conducted a debate activity with 13 engineering students comparing Sustainable Development and Degrowth.
  • Utilized pre-post tests and various surveys, including the SEEQ survey, to gather feedback on student learning.
  • Analyzed student responses to measure the impact of the debate on knowledge acquisition and skill development.
  • Pre-post tests indicated a significant increase in knowledge acquisition post-debate.
  • Feedback from students highlighted enhanced critical thinking skills as a result of participating in the debate.
  • Overall, the debate was shown to be an efficient learning tool for fostering sustainability competencies.

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Rodríguez-Dono et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a2112baebdc74302e02a935https://doi.org/10.3390/su13116397
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