IMPACT OF ACTIVE METHODOLOGIES ON SUSTAINABILITY IN INITIAL TEACHER TRAINING: AN EDUCATIONAL INNOVATION

The training of committed and skilled professionals to face environmental, economic and social challenges is an unavoidable need in the current context.Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is presented as a key pillar for transforming society, promoting essential skills such as systems thinking, anticipation, collaboration, critical thinking, strategic action and responsibility.In this sense, university students, as future graduates, play a central role in building a more sustainable world, so their training in this area is essential.An Innovation Project was carried out with the aim of analyzing how university students perceive the sustainability training they have received and its link with the use of active methodologies in their degrees.For this purpose, a quantitative study was carried out, with a descriptive and inferential design, in which 460 students of the Education degrees of the University of Jan participated.This paper presents the final results obtained from a questionnaire developed specifically for this study, with Likert-type questions on a scale of 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree).The data were then analyzed using SPSS software.The study shows the positive impact of active methodologies on the development of knowledge, competences and satisfaction of university students in relation to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and sustainability.The innovation experience carried out highlights the beneficial effect of active methodologies in training on SDGs and sustainability together with a sense of satisfaction among students.In addition, the training has had an egalitarian impact as no gender or age differences were found.