20.500.12556/DKUM-96379 Students' reflection on the contribution of common teaching methods and compulsory school subjects to sustainable development in Montenegro Youth education is key to building skills and awareness for meaningful change that leads to a sustainable future. The main objective of the survey was to identify the most commonly used teaching methods and to explore Montenegrin students' reflections on the importance of and satisfaction with the teaching of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in 9-year compulsory school subjects. The data was collected between September and November 2022 using an online application, with 705 students responding. The results showed that traditional teaching methods, characterised by teacher-centred instruction and passive student engagement, are still the predominant approach in compulsory education, indicating a gap between current practices and the holistic learning objectives of the ESD guidelines. Secondly, the study showed that the Native language had the greatest influence on students' sustainable habits, followed by biology, geography, maths, and nature. This suggests that the number of lessons per week can influence students' ESD knowledge, although subjects with fewer lessons can still have an impact if they are centred on ESD topics. The third conclusion is that students were equally satisfied with the ESD knowledge acquired in all subjects. The results underline the urgent need for student-centred methods that focus on connecting students with nature, for more hours per week in ESD-related subjects, and for a stronger inclusion of ESD content in general-taught subjects. ESD teaching methods subjects importance satisfaction students metode poučevanja predmeti pomen zadovoljstvo učenci true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Črna gora Znanstveno delo 2025-12-23 10:29:59 2025-12-23 10:30:00 2025-12-24 03:19:42 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 13 str. št. 1, št. članka e2603 Letn. 22 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2026-01-01 37.091.3 262693891 10.29333/ijese/17563 2633-6537 RAZ_Ljesnjak_Snezana_2026.pdf RAZ_Ljesnjak_Snezana_2026.pdf 1 0BF36D204094C10447A5CE3D56CA923D ebd3fb385605ab242cd23a2c1982852db7443a6f973459b7ad66fa7edebaba14 409d8d4b-dfe4-11f0-8aa3-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201665 https://doi.org/10.29333/ijese/17563 1 f60bdd78-dfe1-11f0-8aa3-00155d580e02 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=201663 Fakulteta za naravoslovje in matematiko 0 0 0