Tag: ProfESus
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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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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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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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Stort engagement og mange ideer
ProfESus-kursus succesfuldt afsluttet Det sidste og fjerde modul af ProfESus blended learning kursus ”Opdag en bæredygtig tankegang – for fremtidsorienterede fagfolk der arbejder indenfor branchen for gæstgiveri” foregik ved LAUREA – University of Applied Sciences, Finland. Deltagere fra 14 forskellige lande præsenterede deres planer for undervisningsaktiviteter, som de havde udviklet i den online del af…
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Invitation to the course
An invitation to the course starting end of February.