2020 Volume 61 Issue 2 Pages 207-217
SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) is an international set of goals and targets that, taken together, aim to create a sustainable society by 2030. The SDGs consist of 17 goals and 169 targets, and a pledge that no one will be left behind. To implement the SDGs, we must make a decision and generate new scientific knowledge for a sustainable society because the issues related to the SDGs are affected by people’s interests. Therefore, all countries and all stakeholders must, acting in collaborative partnership, have the will to implement this plan if it is to be successful. The approach best suited to achieve the SDGs is designated as trans-disciplinary, which is to advance science while creating a sustainable society. This approach can connect people’s decision-making with the creative knowledge, however, we need to recognize that science should advance with purpose toward creating a sustainable society. In this paper, we investigated whether lower secondary school students could relate science to a sustainable society using a nexus related to SDGs. Nexus refers to the relationship between multiple issues. The results of our study reveal that students were able to recognize the need for scientific advancement in a sustainable society. However, some students do not transition effectively from inter-disciplinary to trans-disciplinary, as they do not ask scientific questions for creating a sustainable society.
