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Awareness in Educational Ethics

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Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Education for Sustainability (EFS); Education for Sustainable Development (ESD); Environmental Education (EE); Moral development, Sustainability ethics; Sustainable Development (SD); Values education

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Awareness in educational ethics forms the basic value system that drives the education of future citizenry around the world. Educating people can be understood as an inherent ethical enterprise and is informed by assumptions and values, both implicit and explicit, about how educational practices should and are carried out. In its narrowest sense, educational ethics can be seen taking place in the classroom or educational institutes; however, in its broadest sense, educational ethics covers knowledge, capacities, attitudes, and understandings about learning, and education can be formal, informal, and nonformal in nature. This ethic is advanced considering current political, economic, and environmental challenges and is expressed through conceptual frameworks like...

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  1. Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies (GSGES), Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Joshua J. Jodoin

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Passo Fundo University, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Centre for Global Sustainability Studies, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia

    Theam Foo Ng

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Jodoin, J.J. (2020). Awareness in Educational Ethics. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Quality Education. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95870-5_96

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