Mainstreaming Education for Sustainable Development …
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4.1 Finding 1: Topics Rarely Challenge Social Practices (P)
or Values (V)
As indicated by Fig. 5, the corpus presents environmental topics but very few strong
themes emerge from the corpus. In terms of the KPV model, the texts generally
provide students with factual and accurate information (K) but do not seem to be
addressing student values (V). This means that students studying these environmental topics from their EFL textbooks are gaining some scientific knowledge and
Fig. 5 Word cloud visualization of words found in the corpus with a frequency of over 30 instances
557
4.1 Finding 1: Topics Rarely Challenge Social Practices (P)
or Values (V)
As indicated by Fig. 5, the corpus presents environmental topics but very few strong
themes emerge from the corpus. In terms of the KPV model, the texts generally
provide students with factual and accurate information (K) but do not seem to be
addressing student values (V). This means that students studying these environmental topics from their EFL textbooks are gaining some scientific knowledge and
Fig. 5 Word cloud visualization of words found in the corpus with a frequency of over 30 instances