Sustainable literacy as a challenge for education in Northeast Mexico
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https://doi.org/10.33010/ie_rie_rediech.v16i0.2265Keywords:
education for sustainable development, Sulitest, sustainable literaciesAbstract
Sustainability is a priority issue on the global agenda, to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN Agenda 2030. Educational institutions play a crucial role in providing sustainability knowledge to students. In this context, the concept of sustainable literacy arises. In Tamaulipas, a study is carried out through Sulitest to evaluate the level of knowledge about sustainability of high school and higher education students, with a sample of 907 students from three geographical areas, aiming to identify if higher education institutions make a difference in the level of knowledge of young people when moving from high school to university. The results revealed that more than 80% of the young people did not pass the test, with no significant differences being found between the levels of knowledge among high school and university students, nor between the three different geographical areas in which the State was delimited.
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