Tag: sustainable development
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Blended learning for sustainability
How to convince classroom teacher trainers that you can train vocational trainers to help their students develop a sustainability mindset online as well as face to face? As part of the Bonn Multiplier Event I ran a workshop on blended learning for sustainabilty. See the slides here.
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How deep is your green?
in PedagogyOne of the dilemmas of those advocating a more sustainable lifestyle is about how radical the change should be. Is it enough to buy sustainably? Will the buying habits of individuals have a positive impact on the Doomsday clock? The view of experts such as Dr Sylvia Lorek is that legislation on the issue of…
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Connecting Online 2017
in Prof E SusI was honoured to be asked to share as part of Connecting Online 2017 during which I gave an overview of the Prof E Sus project about how we are planning to prepare vocational teachers of guest-oriented jobs to help their students have a more sustainable mindset. You can flick through the slides here. It…
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Modelling sustainability
Modelling sustainable behaviour is a powerful strategy for affecting those around you. Listen to Diana Solovyova from eastern Russia as she talks about three different aspects of being sustainable. As a professional ornithologist who does extensive fieldwork in the tundra and elsewhere, she is only too aware of the effects of waste packaging in the…
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The goal of EfS in vocational skill training
In my last post I painted a rather bleak picture of where we are now in terms of sustainability (two and a half minutes away from the midnight of catastrophe to be exact). So what is to be done? Can anything be done? What can one individual or organisation do that is worthwhile?
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Why sustainable vocational education?
Why has the EU co-financed a project to develop a blended training course for teachers in vocational skills? There are two parts to this question. Why education for sustainability? Why education for sustainability in vocational skills?
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Sustainable home-based business
Many use their household skills as the basis for a home-based business. It could be a Bed and Breakfast, with or without AirBnB. It could be the manufacture and sale of country food grown on their own land. It could also be a farm market or a small cafe in a little ceramics gallery. This…