I have written a great deal about the Prof E Sus Erasmus+ project. On this page you will find a comprehensive list of the blog posts I have created relating to the project, slightly re-arranged to ease navigation.
The main aim of the project was to create an 8-ECTS course to help teachers of Home Economics promote a sustainable mindset in their students.
Introduction to the project and partners
Course description and invitation
The diagram below shows the expected learning pathway following the Green Pedagogy approach, implementing the UNECE levels of sustainability competence and covering the areas of futures, systems, strategic and values thinking as well as collaboration.
Course sign up page (old)
Project Events
First mini conference (January 2017)
Second mini conference (January 2018)
Third mini conference (November 2018)
Press release at end of course
Talking about Prof E Sus at Connecting Online 2017
Exploring the concept of a culture of sustainability at the SIETAR Dublin Congress May 2017
The Power of case studies: Global Ed Con session November 2017
Project tools
One of the first products we created was a resource directory for home economics teachers to help them find relevant support for promoting a sustainable approach. There is a more comprehensive version in several languages available on the project website.
The course curriculum is available here in full and I have created a graphic image to represent its main points here.
Newsletters
Newsletter 1 October 2017
Newsletter 2 May 2018
Newsletter 3 August 2018
Education for Sustainability (EfS)
Why Education for Sustainability?
How deep is your green?on the different levels of green action
Change management for a sustainable mindset
Course pedagogy
Blended learning for sustainability in which I explain why the blended learning approach fits the aims of the project.
Can online learning be transformative?
Why confrontation? The first element of the Green Pedagogy approach often raises objections.
Suggested teacher training exercises
Some of these were included in the Prof E Sus pilot course.
Pedagogy
Transformation please, why we need to aim for transformational learning.
Transgressive learning – learning that takes people out of their comfort zone.
Implementing provocation – how provocation can be implemented
Is there a sustainability TPACK? Explores how TPACK can be adapted to focus on sustainability.
Sustainability bingo to identify when your students are being sustainable
Learning sustainably, the case of DNS College that shows why learners need to FEEL sustainability.
Everyday sustainability an exercise to note sustainable actions
Futures thinking
From 17 to 5: a backcasting strategy
Systems thinking
Systems thinking: a simple example of using LOOPY, a free online tool.
Restaurant Moment: A case study
Collaboration
Building a collaborative presentation about recommended products for sustainability
Discovering a sustainability mindset
In the end the core of the Prof E Sus project centred on defining what a sustainability mindset was, how to identify it, how to measure it and how to promote it.
Sustainability mindset 101: an introduction to thinking about sustainable mindsets.
Discover your sustainable mindset
Recognising a sustainable mindset: how do you do it?
Mindset visualised the importance of visualisations for talking about a sustainable mindset
The course pilot
Profile of one of our participants
