Tag: sustainability
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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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Transgressive learning
A key theme of the Education for Sustainable Development seminar in Copenhagen in October was the idea of transgressive learning or transgressive actions. The verb to transgress has many negative associations for me. I see it as part of the discourse of sinning in religion for example. So the idea of encouraging transgression seemed problematic.…
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Prof E Sus update
The first newsletter of the Prof E Sus project is available now. Find out about products we have produced the free multiplier event in Finland in January 2018 the pilot course that starts in February and ends in June our Quality Board In English Newsletter_1_corr In German Newsletter_1_german
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Is there a sustainabilityTPACK?
The TPACK model has proved useful in the past to show the interaction between pedagogy, content and digital technology tools. It can be used constructively as a framework for planning and it can also help to rebut accusations that technology is driving advice about teaching. In the context of helping vocational teachers and trainers to…
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Learning sustainably
To achieve a sustainable perspective you have to look far beyond individual lesson plans. This is the conclusion I have come to while looking for examples of best practice for the Prof E Sus project where we are developing a teacher training course to help hospitality trainers imbue their teaching with a sustainable perspective. DNS…
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Restaurant Moment: a case study in sustainability
In the last post I illustrated an example of a case study focusing on one specific topic, the running of Restaurant Moment, a unique gastronomical experiment in Denmark. In fact that segment was part of a much longer interview which I present in its entirety here.
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Staff competences in a sustainable setting
In the last post I presented an argument for using case studies to promote sustainable work practices in guest-oriented vocational training. In this post I will share an example of how to make sustainable staff competences come to life through the use of a case study. Context Morten Storm Overgaard’s wife, Rikke, owns and manages…
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Meet us in Finland!
Implementing a sustainable mindset – Innovative Teacher Story Have you ever wondered how cold Finland really is in mid-January? Then here is your chance to find out by attending a free 2-day conference and workshop event 16-17th January in 2018. If you are a vocational teacher or trainer in the field of guest-oriented work skills such…
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Sustainability bingo
One of the foundations of promoting a sustainable approach is to ensure that sustainability is embedded as a mindset as explained by Jamie Cloud of the Cloud Institute for Sustainability Education in the video below. But how do you promote a mindset? Here’s a suggestion for introducing the idea, first with silent bingo which means…
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Changing mindsets
The Prof E Sus project’s main aim is to promote a sustainable mindset in vocational students. What does that involve? And doesn’t that sound a little sinister? Brainwashing perhaps? Or is it what education (literally to bring out) should have been about all the time? Promoting mindsets is popular in education. At the moment we…
