Tag: Prof E Sus
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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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#Everydaysustainability
Since we are at the level of mindset, action and values in the Prof E Sus project, rather than knowledge, we need to look for indicators of a sustainable mindset in our students (and colleagues and organisation otherwise there is no role model for the students in their everyday practice in the classroom/workplace). How can…