Tag: green pedagogy

  • Chapter on Green Pedagogy available online

    Chapter on Green Pedagogy available online

    One of the most significant advantages of being a partner in the ProfESus project was learning about the Green Pedagogy approach to sustainability education. One of the originators of the Green Pedagogy approach, Christine Wogowitsch, and I have co-authored a chapter to bring the pedagogy to the English-speaking world from its Austrian origins and it…

  • Exploring learning journals

    Exploring learning journals

    Can you detect the effect of professional development interventions by examining teacher learning journals? I and my two co-authors attempted to find this out by applying content analysis to the learning journals we asked participants to keep during the Prof E Sus course on Developing a Sustainable Mindset. We used the Leximancer content analysis software…

  • Green Pedagogy deconstructed

    Green Pedagogy deconstructed

    The University College for Environmental and Agrarian Pedagogy in Vienna created the concept of Green Pedagogy. It is a challenge to translate the Green Pedagogy model from German to English so I interviewed Johanna Michenthaler, project coordinator of the Prof E Sus project and professor at the university, about the approach and she used a…

  • Mindset visualised

    Mindset visualised

    An important point to emphasise is that the Prof E Sus project is very much about how to cultivate, promote and maintain a sustainable mindset in your (home-economics) learners. It has been very challenging to refer to this very abstract concept. Turns out that visualisations are one very useful tool to help others understand our…

  • Sustainable mindset teacher training curriculum

    Sustainable mindset teacher training curriculum

    Could showing a curriculum in graphic format reach a wider audience? In the Prof E Sus project we have been developing and piloting a course, Discovering a Sustainable Mindset, for home economics teachers and trainers to help them promote sustainable ways of working in their learners. Our second major product was a curriculum document designed…

  • Promotion of sustainable development through innovative teaching

    Promotion of sustainable development through innovative teaching

    Come to Vienna at the end of November to this free conference to learn more about cultivating a sustainable mindset through relevant pedagogies. International Education Conference 2018 enabling – provocation – reflection Education 4.0 – Promotion of Sustainable Development through Innovative Teaching University College for Agrarian and Environmental Pedagogy 29th and 30th of November, 2018…

  • Change management for sustainability

    Change management for sustainability

    There is no shortage of material written about change management but change managment for sustainability deserves specific consideration for several reasons. The Prof E Sus course on Discovering a Sustainable Mindset aimed at teachers of Home Economics ends with a call to make plans for change. This is relevant regardless of whether we are talking…

  • Building a collaborative presentation

    Building a collaborative presentation

    One of the five main aspects of sustainability is the ability to collaborate with others. This is necessary in order to achieve large-scale effects that would not otherwise be possible. Given that a sustainable future is a large-scale project then collaboration makes sense. One idea to make this advantage of collaboration concrete is to contribute…

  • Why confrontation?

    Why confrontation?

    Why do we need confrontation? Green pedagogy (PDF) advocates starting a learning session by presenting learners with a confrontation, provocation or contradiction. One of our challenges is translating the original Austrian idea of Green Pedagogy which has been described in German, into other languages. So whether the German konfrontation should be translated as contradiction, provocation or…

  • High commitment and many ideas

    High commitment and many ideas

    ProfESus-Course successfully finalized The last Module 4 of the ProfESus blended learning course ”Discovering a Sustainable Mindset – for future-thinking professionals in guest-oriented businesses” was conducted at LAUREA – University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Participants from 14 different countries presented their learning activity plans, which they had developed in the online Module 3 and conducted…