Active Methodologies for Sustainable Development in Teacher Education. Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

One of the current challenges of university education is sustainability and social justice. From the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to achieve these challenges is to take into account the socio-economic and cultural changes. In this sense, university teacher training must be the key between these two variables. To this end, it is necessary to commit to the use of active teaching methodologies that contain a sustainable curriculum and reflect social justice. The aim of this research is to carry out a bibliometric study of the scientific production related to curricular sustainability and the use of active methodologies in the initial teacher training process. This study is descriptive and cross-sectional-retrospective in nature, and also examines the scientific production in this field. One of the most important results shows a growing research productivity in recent years. This shows the importance of these issues among the scientific community, with Spain being the most prolific country in this field of study. This situation has generated a renewed impetus in research on this subject, with a significant and increasing number of publications in recent years.