Silva, A.R.; Boaventura, D.; Sequeira, V. Promoting Sustainable Fish Consumption in Portuguese 4th-Grade Students. Sustainability2024, 16, 579.
Silva, A.R.; Boaventura, D.; Sequeira, V. Promoting Sustainable Fish Consumption in Portuguese 4th-Grade Students. Sustainability 2024, 16, 579.
Silva, A.R.; Boaventura, D.; Sequeira, V. Promoting Sustainable Fish Consumption in Portuguese 4th-Grade Students. Sustainability2024, 16, 579.
Silva, A.R.; Boaventura, D.; Sequeira, V. Promoting Sustainable Fish Consumption in Portuguese 4th-Grade Students. Sustainability 2024, 16, 579.
Abstract
Consuming fish sustainably means consuming less and better, considering environmental, social, and economic impacts. This demands more knowledge to make informed decisions. In this study, the main goal was to understand how sustainability education can be used as a tool to raise awareness and promote new habits regarding the sustainable consumption of fish in 4th-grade students at primary school. During the COVID-19 pandemic, face-to-face and online learning methodologies were used in two different groups of students to understand whether the teaching method impacted learning. A sequential explanatory mixed methodology was applied, with a pre-test/post-test design, combined with focus group sessions. Between the pre and post-tests three learning modules were performed. The results showed that the students were unaware of many aspects related to fish sustainable consumption, but the developed activities significantly increased their knowledge of the subject and impacted students to change their consumption behaviours. It was also found that the construction of knowledge by the students after the activities was achieved either by face-to-face or online learning. Interviews from focus group sessions showed that students got to know new fish species, learned about the concept of minimum landing size and closure season and that fish are labelled like other types of food.
Keywords
Sustainable fish consumption; primary school; face-to-face learning; online learning; ocean literacy; 4th-grade students
Subject
Social Sciences, Education
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