Abstract
Achieving environmental sustainability has been on the global agenda since 1987 with the World Commission releasing a report titled Our Common Future. Since the adoption of sustainability as the overarching principle of environmental governance, scholars have not only debated what it means, but also how to achieve sustainability (Holden, Linnerud, and Banister 2017). One of the key means by which we, as a global citizenry, are to achieve sustainability is through education (Woodworth, Steen-Adams, and Mittal 2011). It is argued that through understanding the environment and our relationship with the environment we can foster mindsets that promote sustainable actions at an individual level (Dietz, Fitzgerald, and Shwom 2005). This study seeks to examine the environmental worldviews of a first year cohort of education students prior to and after completing a course on environmental resource management, within the geography program. The importance and necessity of this study is twofold. Firstly, it will examine the impact that environmental education has in changing students mindsets. Secondly, the students under study are future educators who will go on to educate pupils in a school setting. The importance of understanding their worldviews, and whether they will teach in a manner that promotes environmental sustainability, is crucial given the many generations they will in future influence through their teaching
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