Tag: Prof E Sus
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Why learner-centred?
We partners in the Prof E Sus project are adamant on this point. If a sustainable mindset is to be nurtured to the extent that it becomes second nature in your students then the path to this state has to be strongly learner-centred. But why? It can look a little strange to see the list…
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Why confrontation?
Why do we need confrontation? Green pedagogy (PDF) advocates starting a learning session by presenting learners with a confrontation, provocation or contradiction. One of our challenges is translating the original Austrian idea of Green Pedagogy which has been described in German, into other languages. So whether the German konfrontation should be translated as contradiction, provocation or…
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High commitment and many ideas
ProfESus-Course successfully finalized The last Module 4 of the ProfESus blended learning course ”Discovering a Sustainable Mindset – for future-thinking professionals in guest-oriented businesses” was conducted at LAUREA – University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Participants from 14 different countries presented their learning activity plans, which they had developed in the online Module 3 and conducted…
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An arrow to the future
Second in my series of sample tasks for a teacher training to help teachers of guest-oriented vocational skills infuse their teaching with more sustainable approaches. This task is proposed for the end of the course when participants are about to go their separate ways. The main aim is to get participants making concrete plans for…
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Building an ESD trainer FAQ
Sample task for a teacher training targeted at teachers of guest-oriented vocational skills (food preparation, maintaining cleanliness and textile care). Aims: to anticipate some of the most frequent questions about shifting to a sustainability mindset to add and adapt to a template FAQ to discuss ESD with stakeholders and colleagues Time: 60 – 75 minutes…
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Sustainability mindset 101
We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them The quote often attributed to Einstein perfectly explains why it is the mindset which needs to be targeted if we want our students of guest-oriented vocational skills to act more sustainably. Put another way: nothing changes unless mindset…
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Recognising a sustainable mindset
There’s a great deal of talk in educational circles about mindset at the moment, mostly directed at nurturing a growth mindset. But when you set out to intentially promote a certain mindset, it quickly becomes clear that it is very difficult to observe a particular mindset and even more difficult to measure progress towards the…
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Systems thinking
I have been experimenting with LOOPY as a way of showing a system. My chosen system is project work. Therefore the animation below shows that a finite project grant stock is given to the project coordinator. Then three partners get fractions of that grant depending on the amount of time they put in and the…
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From 17 to 5: a backcasting strategy
Jonathon Porritt: If you can do something forever, it’s sustainable and if you can’t then it isn’t! During the Rethink Activism event in Aarhus in September I took part in an interesting backcasting exercise facilitated by a consortium of voluntary organisations that are willing to come out to businesses to facilitate this session.