Tag: Prof E Sus

  • Green Pedagogy deconstructed

    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…

  • Final Prof E Sus newsletter

    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.

  • The Prof E Sus video is out!

    The Prof E Sus video is out!

    Here it is! Discover your Sustainable Mindset: A professional development training for teachers of home economics. Acknowledgement

  • Who took the Prof E Sus course?

    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…

  • 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…

  • #Everydaysustainability

    #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…