Tag: mindset

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sustainability mindset 101

    Sustainability mindset 101

    We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them The quote often attributed to Einstein perfectly explains why it is the mindset which needs to be targeted if we want our students of guest-oriented vocational skills to act more sustainably. Put another way: nothing changes unless mindset…

  • Free course: teaching a sustainable mindset

    Free course: teaching a sustainable mindset

    Teaching a sustainable mindset – for future-thinking professionals in guest-oriented businesses What? You explore the pedagogies that can help you build a sustainable mindset in your students. Help your students uncover sustainable work routines in their chosen career. The ProfEsus blended learning course held over 5 months with both face to face elements and online activity…

  • Sustainability bingo

    One of the foundations of promoting a sustainable approach is to ensure that sustainability is embedded as a mindset as explained  by Jamie Cloud of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in the video below. But how do you promote a mindset? Here’s a suggestion for introducing the idea, first with silent bingo which means…

  • Changing mindsets

    Changing mindsets

    The Prof E Sus project’s main aim is to promote a sustainable mindset in vocational students. What does that involve? And doesn’t that sound a little sinister? Brainwashing perhaps? Or is it what education (literally to bring out) should have been about all the time? Promoting mindsets is popular in education. At the moment we…