I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest article, “Confessions of an Early Sustainability Educator: Autoethnographic Reflections on Questionable Beliefs in and about Sustainability Education”, in the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.
Why This Matters
Sustainability education (SE) is often seen as a transformative force for addressing global challenges. Yet, like any evolving field, it is not immune to myths, misconceptions, and oversimplifications. In this article, I use analytic autoethnography to critically examine my own journey as an early-career sustainability educator—identifying, interrogating, and deconstructing questionable beliefs (or “myths”) that have shaped my teaching, research, and faculty development work.
This study is part of a broader research agenda aimed at developing the MYTHSE-Navigator, an open educational resource for identifying, understanding, and challenging myths in sustainability education.
Read the Article
The full article is available here:
- Siegel, Stefan T. (2026). Confessions of an early sustainability educator: Autoethnographic reflections on questionable beliefs in and about sustainability education. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSHE-06-2025-0564
I welcome your thoughts, critiques, and experiences with sustainability education myths—let’s continue the conversation on evidence-informed sustainability education!