Case study teaching method in effective higher environmental education for sustainable development goals

Abstract

Higher environmental education has an important role in the development of quality of human resources, bearing in mind that it has as a goal directing of young people as carriers of the future development towards sustainability. The reason lies in the fact that higher environmental education “produces” environmental educated students for the extensive social changes needed for achieving sustainable development goals. On the other side, the case study teaching method is becoming an increasingly common teaching strategy in education and specially higher education. The authors of the paper stand that the use of case study teaching method effectively achieves the fulfillment of specific learning objectives and outcomes of higher environmental education for sustainable development goals. The results reported in the paper represent organized Competition in environmental case study “Activism and local community: environmental volunteer actions in the River Basin of West Morava“ at the University of Belgrade - Faculty of Organizational Science, Serbia.