Empowering adolescents for Eco-Literacy: Integrating Life Cycle Assessment and Carbon Footprint Analysis in Sustainability Education
Suominen, Weera (2024)
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024072924026
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2024072924026
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Motivating young people and raising awareness is absolutely important in order to improve our readiness to respond to urgent environmental challenges and meet the needs of current and future generations while taking care of the environment we live in and the goal of this thesis is to create three different concepts for the development of sustainable development education in the German school system and thus motivate the students participating in the workshops towards more sustainable consumption habits and give them information for informed decision-making. Getting to know the LCA (Life cycle assessment) method and more precisely the use of the OpenLCA application as an LCA tool is also one part of this thesis. The target group of these workshops are young people aged from 14 to 18 and they aim to focus on informing, encouraging reflection and promoting more sustainable consumption patterns in their daily lives. The thesis will explore different teaching methods, examine motivation and design teaching methods and approaches appropriate to the target group and the workshops based on these findings.
The outcomes of the thesis are three different workshop concepts for sustainability education in schools inlcuding timelimes, a motivation and learning study, learning materials required for the workshops, and also instructions for using the openLCA application. The design of the workshops includes the planning and selection of the topics to be covered, the design of the learning platform to be used in the workshops, including the search for the necessary data package, the implementation of the platform and the instructions for its implementation. Evaluation plan has also been created for each workshop, for their development and deployment, and the necessary steps for their implementation are also listed in the thesis. This thesis focuses on designing the workshops, their theoretical basis and goals, the production of the necessary materials, and the educational purposes of including openLCA. Due to time constraints, practical implementation is not possible within the framework of this thesis.
The outcomes of the thesis are three different workshop concepts for sustainability education in schools inlcuding timelimes, a motivation and learning study, learning materials required for the workshops, and also instructions for using the openLCA application. The design of the workshops includes the planning and selection of the topics to be covered, the design of the learning platform to be used in the workshops, including the search for the necessary data package, the implementation of the platform and the instructions for its implementation. Evaluation plan has also been created for each workshop, for their development and deployment, and the necessary steps for their implementation are also listed in the thesis. This thesis focuses on designing the workshops, their theoretical basis and goals, the production of the necessary materials, and the educational purposes of including openLCA. Due to time constraints, practical implementation is not possible within the framework of this thesis.