Education for Sustainable Development in Secondary School: A Review and Bibliometric Analysis
Abstract
Education for sustainable development (ESD) should be implemented at all levels of education, including secondary schools. This article aimed to give a thorough bibliometric assessment of the literature on “education for sustainable development in secondary schools.” The article was discovered in the Scopus database. The Scopus database reviewed in this study yielded 100 papers from 1998 to 2022. The VOS viewer software was then used to organize, classify, and visualize the selected references. Overall, this evaluation serves as a good starting point for more research into secondary school “education for sustainable development.”
Keywords: education for sustainable development, secondary school. a review, bibliometric analysis
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