Sustainable Futures Education: International Perspectives and Practices
Blended course for student teachers from PIS, PHW and TUD
Description
Strengthen your sustainability education competences through engagement with TAP-TS learning and teaching materials as part of an international community of practice!
This course is designed for primary and secondary level student teachers from PIS, PHW and TUD.
It includes Online Webinars and a three-day Active Learning Event in Dresden. The online webinars promote engagement with specific aspects of Sustainable Futures Education (SFE) and foster the design and testing of innovative teaching concepts. The event in Dresden is a chance for further engagement, reflection and exchange of practical learning and teaching activities. Moreover, face to face seminars in PIS, PHW and TUD offer students with guidance, feedback and accreditation options.
This multilingual project uses English as a shared main language of communication. Online seminars are held mainly in English, with language support such as subtitles, translation and translanguaging available for those with limited English. Face to face seminars are offered in the main language of the institutions. No prior knowledge of SFE is necessary.
Participants choose one of the following working groups (WGs):
- WG1: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Education (secondary level)
- WG2: STEAM for Sustainability and Environmental Education (primary level)
- WG3: Sustainability and Digitality (primary and secondary)
- WG4: Language, Decoloniality and Sustainable Futures Education (primary and secondary)
Working Group Learning Objectives
WG1: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Education:
- Describe the core idea behind the sustainable entrepreneurship education;
- Engage to spark innovative practical ideas for the implementation of the concept “sustainable entrepreneurship education” in the own teaching practice; and
- Apply ideas to the own work by creating a usable product, such as a facilitation guide, or lesson plan.
WG2: STEAM for Sustainability and Environmental Education:
- Recognize the interconnectedness of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics in addressing sustainability challenges;
- Identify environmental education contexts and active learning methodology to address sustainability;
- Cultivate collaboration skills by working on interdisciplinary activities or projects related to environmental education; and
- Acquire skills how to foster students in the classroom and beyond to design sustainable STEAM solutions and explore new ideas that contribute to a more sustainable future.
WG3: Sustainability and Digitality:
- Identify connections between sustainability and digitality;
- Recognise the effects of your own media use; and
- Identify ways to teach the topic in educational settings.
WG4: Decoloniality, Language and Sustainable Futures Education:
- Explore connections between coloniality/decoloniality and unsustainability/
sustainability; - Critically consider coloniality/decoloniality values, beliefs and practices in education;
- Explore language values, beliefs and practices in relation to coloniality/decoloniality and research-based understandings of multilingualism; and
- Identify strategies for engaging learners’ linguistic and cultural resources for learning, across the curriculum.
Enjoy the activities. We are looking forward to learning with and from you!