Category: Sustainability
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Climate action & effective governance
Whilst some governments are busy denying the need for climate action, the Danish government has achieved a far-reaching landmark agreement to pro-actively reduce greenhouse gases by focusing on agriculture. There cannot be many in Denmark who are not aware of the tripartite green agreement, den grønne trepartsaftale, in Danish. However, apart from a vague idea…
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Action on climate change
The En-ROADS climate simulator is a one-page interactive climate simulator that can show you the effects of policy decisions up to the year 2100. I recently discovered En-ROADS and completed the course that guides me in its use. Designed for policy makers at the highest level, it is nevertheless useful at all levels. What I…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Final Prof E Sus newsletter
The final newsletter of the Prof E Sus project is out and you can download it here: Newsletter_ProfESus_01_2019_v3 The newsletter contains a round up of the contributions to the international conference held in Vienna in November as well as some feedback from past participants of the Prof E Sus course.
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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.
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The Prof E Sus video is out!
Here it is! Discover your Sustainable Mindset: A professional development training for teachers of home economics. Acknowledgement
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Who took the Prof E Sus course?
In this post I will present a profile of one of the participants in the Prof E Sus pilot course, ‘Discovering a Sustainable Mindset’. In this interview I talk with Christine Atkinson who is based in Zanzibar and who is now General Manager at Chako, a sustainable social enterprise. The audio is below. And below…
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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…