“The Value of Mixed Teaching Methods
in the Context of the Sustainable
Development Goals—An Evaluation
of a Compulsory Course Using
the Example of a Large Group
of Students”
Nadine Husenbeth and Merle Katrin Tegeler
1 The Sustainable Development Goals
The first earth summit was held in June 1992 with 178 participating countries in the
city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The countries came together to develop the Agenda
21 which had the goal to produce a global cooperation for sustainable development
in humans and climate (United Nations Department of Public Information 2019). For
example, the agenda included sections to save global resources and the strengthening
of disadvantaged human groups (Mccammon 1992). In 2000 the millennium summit
decided unanimously on the millennium agreement. This agreement includes eight
different millennium development goals (MDG) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
The main goal was to minimize the group of people who live below an average of
$1.25 on a daily basis (by half). This was achieved before the deadline of 2015,
even if the agreement did not have legally binding mechanisms for regulations. The
economic growth before 2015 in countries like china, who have a high population
density, could be the reason why they reached the goal earlier. In 2012 the united
nation conference of sustainable development decided the start of a new duty to
achieve a bigger frame of sustainable development. They called it the sustainable
development goals (SDG) which should be built upon the outcomes of the Agenda
21 and the MDG’s. In 2013 they built a task force of 30 members for the development
of these goals. 2015, after a three years’ preparation process the sustainable development goals were implemented in the Agenda 2030. This agenda included 17 main
goals and 169 lower goals, which cover factors like the reduction of world hunger and
N. Husenbeth · M. K. Tegeler (B)
University of Bremen, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 1, Postfach 330 440, 28359 Bremen, Germany
e-mail: tegeler@uni-bremen.de
N. Husenbeth
e-mail: nadine.husenbeth@uni-bremen.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_23
349
in the Context of the Sustainable
Development Goals—An Evaluation
of a Compulsory Course Using
the Example of a Large Group
of Students”
Nadine Husenbeth and Merle Katrin Tegeler
1 The Sustainable Development Goals
The first earth summit was held in June 1992 with 178 participating countries in the
city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). The countries came together to develop the Agenda
21 which had the goal to produce a global cooperation for sustainable development
in humans and climate (United Nations Department of Public Information 2019). For
example, the agenda included sections to save global resources and the strengthening
of disadvantaged human groups (Mccammon 1992). In 2000 the millennium summit
decided unanimously on the millennium agreement. This agreement includes eight
different millennium development goals (MDG) to reduce extreme poverty by 2015.
The main goal was to minimize the group of people who live below an average of
$1.25 on a daily basis (by half). This was achieved before the deadline of 2015,
even if the agreement did not have legally binding mechanisms for regulations. The
economic growth before 2015 in countries like china, who have a high population
density, could be the reason why they reached the goal earlier. In 2012 the united
nation conference of sustainable development decided the start of a new duty to
achieve a bigger frame of sustainable development. They called it the sustainable
development goals (SDG) which should be built upon the outcomes of the Agenda
21 and the MDG’s. In 2013 they built a task force of 30 members for the development
of these goals. 2015, after a three years’ preparation process the sustainable development goals were implemented in the Agenda 2030. This agenda included 17 main
goals and 169 lower goals, which cover factors like the reduction of world hunger and
N. Husenbeth · M. K. Tegeler (B)
University of Bremen, Enrique-Schmidt-Str. 1, Postfach 330 440, 28359 Bremen, Germany
e-mail: tegeler@uni-bremen.de
N. Husenbeth
e-mail: nadine.husenbeth@uni-bremen.de
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
W. Leal Filho et al. (eds.), Universities, Sustainability and Society: Supporting
the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, World Sustainability Series,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63399-8_23
349