Moral impasses in sustainability education? Empirical results from school geography in Austria and Germany

Figures & data

Figure 1. Importance of different criteria when students buy a mobile phone (sample: 1001 students). Source Authors 2017–2018.

Figure 2. Raw materials listed by students (sample: 1001 students). Source Authors 2017–2018.

Figure 3. Student drawing on sustainability. Source Secondary student from Lower Saxony, 2017.

Figure 4. Student drawing on sustainability. Source Secondary student from Austria, 2018.

Table 1. Methods and media used in geography teaching in the frame of sustainability education, according to the interviewed students (several answers possible). Source Authors 2017–2018.

	Method/medium	Number of answers	Percentage
1.	Textbook	415	33.8
2.	Film/video	250	20.4
3.	Worksheet	182	14.8
4.	Photos	143	11.7
5.	Classroom discussion	20	1.6
6.	Fieldtrip	19	1.5
7.	Teacher lecture	8	0.7
8.	Web search	7	0.6
9.	Atlas	6	0.5
10.	Original items	5	0.4
11.	Oral presentation	4	0.3
12.	Experiment	3	0.2
13.	Overhead transparency	1	0.1
14.	Project	1	0.1
15.	Game	1	0.1
16.	Caricature	1	0.1
17.	Learning in stops	1	0.1
18.	Diary	1	0.1
19.	Others	16	1.3
20.	Don’t know anymore	143	11.7
Total		1.227	100