Article 31 May 2025
Vassilios Makrakis, Nelly Kostoulas-Makrakis, Omar Ramzy and Mohammed Anwar
https://doi.org/10.54175/hsustain4020009
Increasing numbers of refugee children enter host countries’ public schools. Yet, most refugee children’s education is carried out through refugee community schools, mainly by unqualified teachers. This study examines critical elements impacting teacher training satisfaction, emphasizing
Increasing numbers of refugee children enter host countries’ public schools. Yet, most refugee children’s education is carried out through refugee community schools, mainly by unqualified teachers. This study examines critical elements impacting teacher training satisfaction, emphasizing instructors’ preparedness and skill, and the effectiveness of training outcomes within a post-graduate program to improve education for refugee children. It supports the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), especially SDG10, which calls for lowering inequality, and SDG4, which strongly emphasizes high-quality education. A sizable sample of 306 out of 386 individuals who had finished the RefTeCp capacity-building program participated in the study. These people worked in various educational environments, such as community schools for refugees and private establishments. The study guaranteed its legitimacy through a thorough reliability analysis and content evaluation. Multiple regression techniques were used in data analysis to identify the crucial factors influencing teacher training satisfaction. According to key findings, the efficiency of teaching materials and instructors’ abilities to manage blended learning environments substantially correlate and explain teacher training satisfaction. The study’s results highlight several essential facets of teacher professional development, such as focusing on suitable high-quality blended learning materials and resources to improve refugee students’ learning needs and experiences. Continuing teacher capacity-building interventions, and allowing refugee teachers to participate, can significantly contribute to reducing inequities and, ultimately, to a more equitable and just society.
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Review 21 May 2025
Hüseyin Emre Ilgın and Özlem Nur Aslantamer
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 122–145
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 122–145
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Article 16 April 2025
Enrique Javier Díez Gutiérrez, Luisa María García Salas, Sara Aguilar Moya, Kelly Romero Acosta, Antonio Pérez Robles, José Jesús Trujillo Vargas, Ignacio Perlado Lamo de Espinosa and Luis Miguel Mateos Toro
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 108–121
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 108–121
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Article 3 April 2025
Martin Wynn and Peter Jones
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 95–107
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 95–107
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Review 25 March 2025
Phoenix Eskridge-Aldama, Aden Stern, Anna Vaughn and Diana Stuart
As global temperatures continue to rise, those in favor of rapid climate mitigation face critical questions regarding maintaining current levels of economic growth. On a global scale, there remains a clear positive correlation between economic growth
As global temperatures continue to rise, those in favor of rapid climate mitigation face critical questions regarding maintaining current levels of economic growth. On a global scale, there remains a clear positive correlation between economic growth and carbon emissions, leading many climate scientists to call for a move away from a growth-focused economy. In this article, we draw from recent research to compare possible outcomes in terms of social well-being and climate mitigation for green growth and degrowth pathways. Green growth aims to maintain economic growth while reducing carbon emissions. Degrowth calls for a purposeful contraction of economic growth in wealthy countries. Drawing from recent studies, we compile evidence to compare these pathways and assess how each of these key strategies is evaluated and framed in the literature. We find that research indicates clear differences between these pathways in terms of mitigation potential and risks to human welfare, and we call for future research on specific topics related to a degrowth transition. Additionally, we identify issues of feasibility as primary concerns within both paradigms.
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Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 69–94
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 2, pp. 69–94
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Article 22 February 2025
Assitan Diaby, Mehdi Seraj and Huseyin Ozdeser
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 56–68
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 56–68
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Article 20 February 2025
Anna C. Schomberg, Clemens Mostert and Stefan Bringezu
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 38–55
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 38–55
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Article 1 February 2025
Bogusław Ślusarczyk, Małgorzata A. Kozłowska and Zuzanna A. Kozłowska
Highlights of Sustainability
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 16–37
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 16–37
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Article 15 January 2025
Michael Tarrant, Mikell Gleason, Steven Boyd and Tony Wellington
We adopt a normative model of crowd tolerance (expressed as a willingness to support more or fewer tourists) as a proxy for overtourism. Consistent with Social Exchange Theory, it is proposed that a person will perceive
We adopt a normative model of crowd tolerance (expressed as a willingness to support more or fewer tourists) as a proxy for overtourism. Consistent with Social Exchange Theory, it is proposed that a person will perceive the impacts of tourism at a destination as positive or negative depending on the extent to which they view visitor levels as under or over a threshold that they expect or support (i.e., their norms or tolerance level). A total of 420 residents and 1048 visitors completed a survey interview in the tourist shire of Noosa between 2022 and 2024. Results show that residents and visitors differed significantly on many of the perceived tourism impacts, with long-term residents less favorable to the positive impacts than visitors. There was broad consensus across both residents and tourists, and the highest level of agreement, with negative impacts (especially that tourism contributes to traffic and parking congestion, and higher prices). The lowest levels of agreement with positive tourism impacts were found for “over tourists” (respondents who supported a fewer number of tourists). Implications for sustainable destination management are discussed in the context of the Quadruple Bottom Line, including efforts that enable tourism communities to grow well using a guardianship ethos and collective action of Gifts and Gains.
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Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 1–15
Volume 4 (2025), Issue 1, pp. 1–15
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