EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABILITY: A LOOK AT THE LIGHT OF PERSONAL VALUES AND MOTIVATION

Abstract

Inserted in Education for Sustainability, the research showed qualitative and descriptive, aiming to investigate how to configure personal values, motivation and knowledge of sustainability of according perception of five teachers of an Administration course of a public university Brazilian. The data collection was through semi-structured interviews, and set the a priori categories for interviews by adapting the Profile Questionnaire of Values of Tamayo and Porto (2009), the Motivation Scale at Work proposed by Gagné et al. (2010) and questions about the specific knowledge about sustainability. It was evidenced that, in general, teachers seek to use innovative techniques in their disciplines, believe that they are well viewed by society, care about individuals who live with and about the instability of society, feel fulfilled and identify with their profession, find it important and seek to bring sustainability in their disciplines and have already carried out research on the sustainability theme. As limitations of the research, interviews with only five professors of an Administration Course are mentioned, so it is suggested to extend the study, with a larger sample and in other courses and areas of knowledge.