From Worldview 2 Sustainability: Students perceptions of future proof sustainability teaching

“Students survey – Tackling sustainability challenges with hearts desires”, Harald Bolsinger together with Asmaa Benghabrit and Sindhu Shantha Nair.

We carried out an online survey in the first half of 2025 in our surroundings amongst students in Germany, Morocco and India. Our dataset contains 187 rows as observations and several columns as variables. These variables show demographic information (e.g. age, gender, country of birth, religion, country of study), as well as aspects related to personal vision, values, and commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of students. The online survey was done multilingual in English and German and the results then consolidated into an English dataset for analysis. Here we show the questions asked to accompany future publications about our findings and interpretation:

• What’s your gender?
  Female
  Male
  Diverse
• How old are you in years?
• In what country are you born?
• What is your main religious background?
  Muslim
  Christian
  Hindu
  Buddhist
  Atheist
  Other
• In what country are you studying?
• What degree program are you studying at the moment?
• Have you ever worked professionally on a personal vision for your life?
  y/n
• Have you ever reflected your own worldview?
  y/n
• When dealing with worldview reflection would you like to….
  Get an overview of the largest generic worldviews
  Get an overview of common values of different nations
  Get HowTos for exemplary Vision building in the largest generic worldviews
  Explore spiritual intelligence as a personal motivation source
  Other (please specify):
• Do you know your main values and where they come from?
  y/n
• Have you ever linked your personal values to the sustainability goals of the united nations?
  y/n
  y => If you ever linked your personal values to the sustainability goals of the united nations, please explain how.
• Do you think these topics should be part of your study program based on scientific foundations?
  – Personal Values Definition
  – Vision building for personal life
  – Vision building for professional life
  – Vision building for an own entrepreneurial venture
  – Link of personal values to sustainability goals
  – How-tos for using the found results for becoming a unique person with high integrity in professional life.
  Strongly disagree, Disagree, Neither agree nor disagree, Agree, Strongly agree
• Which of these topics you think should be part of your study program ?
  Personal Values Definition
  Vision building for personal life
  Vision building for professional life
  Vision building for an own entrepreneurial venture
  Link of personal values to sustainability goals
  How-tos for using the found results for becoming a unique person with high integrity in professional life
  None of them (then tick only here, please)
• When you think about the format for such content. How would you profit most? Please choose up to 5 options:
  Classic lecture with explanations from the professor
  Preproduced online lecture with explanations from the professor
  Lecture with group work and optional transparency for each other
  Lecture with individual work and optional transparency for each other
  Lecture with individual work and full privacy of the outcome
  Playing a Card-Game together in class with optional transparency for each other
  Playing a Roleplaying-Game online alone with full privacy of the outcome
  Playing a Roleplaying-Game online alone with optional transparency for each other
  Playing a Roleplaying-Game together with anonymous transparency for each other
  Other ideas (please specify your wishes):

Please contact us if you are interested in the raw data for own analysis.