TY - JOUR

T1 - Time and sustainability

T2 - A missing link in formal education curricula

AU - Grauer, Claire

AU - Fischer, Daniel

AU - Frank, Pascal

N1 - Funding Information: Research and writing were conducted as part of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)?funded project Time Rebound, Time Affluence and Sustainable Consumption (ReZeitKon), funded by the BMBF under grant number 01UT1708C. We would like to thank our student assistant Celine Ebeloe for her support with data analysis and the editing of the manuscript. Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

PY - 2022/3/29

Y1 - 2022/3/29

N2 - Time is an essential dimension of sustainability and its premise of intra- and intergenerational justice. Moreover, prevailing sociocultural practices of time use are drivers of unsustainability. Educational institutions convey social norms on time and are thus places where time is "learned." It is therefore of relevance for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to understand how exactly time is addressed in education. This study from Germany introduces the concept of time as a resource for sustainability before presenting an analysis of how time in this sense is addressed in 2,149 German curricula, covering all grades and school forms. Our study shows that, overall, an engagement with time as a resource for sustainability is rare in formal education. Time is mostly addressed in ethical reflections on lifetime or in teaching time management skills. We discuss implications of our findings and sketch avenues for future research on time as a resource for sustainability.

AB - Time is an essential dimension of sustainability and its premise of intra- and intergenerational justice. Moreover, prevailing sociocultural practices of time use are drivers of unsustainability. Educational institutions convey social norms on time and are thus places where time is "learned." It is therefore of relevance for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) to understand how exactly time is addressed in education. This study from Germany introduces the concept of time as a resource for sustainability before presenting an analysis of how time in this sense is addressed in 2,149 German curricula, covering all grades and school forms. Our study shows that, overall, an engagement with time as a resource for sustainability is rare in formal education. Time is mostly addressed in ethical reflections on lifetime or in teaching time management skills. We discuss implications of our findings and sketch avenues for future research on time as a resource for sustainability.

KW - Sustainability education

KW - time

KW - curriculum

KW - consumption

KW - school

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85124336867&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/00958964.2021.2009429

DO - 10.1080/00958964.2021.2009429

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 53

SP - 22

EP - 41

JO - Journal of Environmental Education

JF - Journal of Environmental Education

SN - 0095-8964

IS - 1

ER -