Tag: sustainability
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Action on climate change
The En-ROADS climate simulator is a one-page interactive climate simulator that can show you the effects of policy decisions up to the year 2100. I recently discovered En-ROADS and completed the course that guides me in its use. Designed for policy makers at the highest level, it is nevertheless useful at all levels. What I…
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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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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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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…