At the Academic Poster Session of the oikos Sustainability Week 2026 at the University of St. Gallen (HSG), the MYTHSE Navigator was presented as an evidence-informed infrastructure for identifying and refuting persistent myths in and about sustainability education (SE).
The poster outlined the project’s theoretical basis, methodological approach, and current state of development. Central to the presentation was the argument that myths in SE are not mere misunderstandings but structurally embedded misconceptions that resist correction without systematic, evidence-grounded intervention. The MYTHSE Navigator addresses this by combining a curated refutation wiki — the SE-Mythology — with a modular toolbox, including the Myth Identification Heuristics, a Decision Tree, and the Educational Myths Refutation Canvas.
The Academic Poster Session provided a productive forum for exchange with researchers and practitioners working at the intersection of sustainability, education, and science communication. Responses to the project confirmed both the relevance of the problem and the need for accessible, open tools that go beyond awareness-raising toward structured mythbusting.
Development of the MYTHSE Navigator continues.
Read on here 📚🤓:
Siegel, Stefan T. (2025). The Myths in Sustainability Education Navigator: Development, Design, and Uses-Cases of An Evidence-informed, and Accessible SE-Mythology. In Eva Matthes, Péter Bagoly-Simó, Britta Juska-Bacher, Sylvia Schütze und Jan Van Wiele (Hrsg.). Nachhaltigkeit und Bildungsmedien. Julius Klinkhardt.
https://doi.org/10.35468/6206-17