Tag: ProfESus

  • 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…

  • Implementing provocation

    Implementing provocation

    Provoke me if you want me to learn Ewan McIntosh Provocation is a key starting point of the Austrian Green Pedagogy model and can be difficult to understand. I have earlier explained why it is needed. In this post I aim to offer a few ideas about how to implement provocation.

  • 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…

  • Stort engagement og mange ideer

    Stort engagement og mange ideer

    ProfESus-kursus succesfuldt afsluttet Det sidste og fjerde modul af ProfESus blended learning kursus ”Opdag en bæredygtig tankegang – for fremtidsorienterede fagfolk der arbejder indenfor branchen for gæstgiveri” foregik ved LAUREA – University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Deltagere fra 14 forskellige lande præsenterede deres planer for undervisningsaktiviteter, som de havde udviklet i den online del af…

  • Invitation to the course

    Invitation to the course

    An invitation to the course starting end of February.