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Active Learning Event 3:
Sustainable Futures Education: Digitality, entrepreneurship, decoloniality
and serious games at secondary level
for secondary level
Detailed Course Description
The course opens on March 4th. Participants are notified by email and have access to the landing page on the course moodle. Participants are invited to set up a personal profile on the course padlet and to get to know other people on the course.
Webinar 1: Foundations of Sustainable Futures Education
Monday March 4th 14.50-16.20 CET
The course begins with a foundation webinar, when all participants come together and meet colleagues working in different national education contexts. During the webinar, participants exchange personal understandings of sustainable futures and explore narratives of sustainable futures, and the role of education for sustainable futures, in international discourses. We consider values, knowledge and skills needed for sustainable futures, and evaluate the European Commission’s GreenComp framework in relation to our own teaching contexts. Participants are invited to explore the ideas presented in this session through links to further resources, a discussion forum and the course padlet.
Learning Objectives
- Reflect on and share personal understandings of sustainable futures
- Critically consider narratives of sustainable futures and the role of education for sustainable futures in international discourse
- Identify values, knowledge and skills for a sustainable future
- Evaluate the GreenComp framework in relation to your teaching context
Webinar 2: Sustainable Futures Education Working Groups
Monday March 11th 14.50-16.20 CET
There are four Working Groups, which each focus on a particular aspect of Sustainable Futures Education. Participants select a Working Group to join when they register for the course.
WG1: Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Education
Entrepreneurship education plays a key role in supporting young people to adopt a positive mindset. The entrepreneurial mindset is referred to a certain way of thinking by which young people confront disadvantages, mistakes and problems in life. The entrepreneurial mindset enables young people to overcome those challenges, be decisive and take on responsibilities for any of their behaviours and activities.What does sustainability have to do with entrepreneurship education?
Sustainable entrepreneurship education teaches young people on the one side how to successfully use current resources to achieve sustainable growth while not risking future generations ́ ability to access resources. On the other side sustainable entrepreneurship competences enable young people to value sustainability; to support equity and justice for current and future generations; to approach a sustainability problem from all sides, to formulate current and potential challenges in order to identify sustainable approaches to anticipating and preventing problems, and to mitigating and adapting already existing problems.
In this working group the participants will explore best practices and strategies for teaching sustainable entrepreneurship.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the core idea behind the sustainable entrepreneurship education.
- Engage with one another to spark innovative thinking and develop practical ideas for the implementation of the concept “sustainable entrepreneurship education” in teaching
- Apply ideas to your work by creating a usable product, such as a facilitation guide, or lesson plan.
WG2: Sustainability and Digitality
Digitisation is bringing about fundamental changes – in ecological, social and economic terms. The dimension of this transformation is comparable to the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution and affects all areas of society. Consequently, our common digital future will very much depend on how and by whom digitalisation is shaped. A key aspect will be whether the change potential of digitalisation can be used to preserve the natural foundations of life or whether the energy and resource consumption of the digital infrastructure will further exacerbate the climate crisis.In this working group, we look at the relationship between digitality and sustainability: How can digitalisation be put at the service of sustainability? How do digital technologies affect the environment? How helpful are they in tackling the climate crisis? What social inequalities result from digital infrastructures?
Learning objectives
- Identify connections between sustainability and digitality
- Recognise the effects of your own media use
- Identify ways to teach the topic in educational settings.
WG3: Decoloniality and Sustainable Futures Education
Fires raged around the world last year, a symptom of human-induced climate change and, in France, of anger at the unlawful killing of a French teenager of Algerian descent. Climate change and structural racism stem from extractive and exploitative capitalist/colonial ideologies, which emerged from Europe and continue to fuel unsustainable beliefs and practices in Europe and around the world. Education offers hope for learning our way out of current crises, but is also heavily implicated in unsustainable beliefs and practices. Acknowledging injustice in education and acting to improve educational equity are necessary for transformation in education and for realizing the potential of education to catalyze change in wider society.In this working group, participants explore research-based understandings of education and decoloniality in relation to education for sustainable futures, exchange critical reflections with colleagues from across Europe, and develop ideas and strategies in an area of interest to them for their own contexts of practice.
Learning objectives
- Critically consider connections between coloniality/decoloniality and sustainability/unsustainability
- Explore how decoloniality in education supports educational equity and transformation
- Develop and test practical strategies for decoloniality in your context
WG4: Teaching Sustainability & Resilience through Games and Simulations
Active Learning Event, Face to Face in Dresden
21st -23rd March 2024 plus 24th March (an optional funded day)
Three days of face-to-face workshops and activities provide additional opportunity for participants to interact and exchange ideas and experiences and to develop and test educational activities, based on the initial webinars and TAP-TS Learning and Teaching materials.
In this session, we will explore the engaging world of platform games
and simulations designed for both individual and multiplayer use. The
participants will be introduced to the fundamentals of the platform
games and simulations, learn how to use available resources for in-class
activities that support the gameplay and gain insights into how they
can seamlessly incorporate games into their curriculum. The participants
will explore the potentials of gaming as an educational tool for
disaster risk reduction and resilience. They will be provided with
practical insights and resources to enhance their teaching methods and
engage students in interactive learning experiences.
Participants can also apply for the intercultural training INTERACT
which addresses especially in-service teachers and will take place on th
24th March, 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. The participation is free of charge. All
international participants will receive a funding for this additional day (96 EUR).
(The application for the training INTERACT is part of the general application
for the Active Learning Event).
Places are limited, but all participants in online sessions are invited to apply.
FUNDING FOR INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPANTS:
- Accommodation in twin bed rooms for the period 20. March – 24. March for free
- Breakfast, lunch and refreshments on 21., 22. and 23. March for free
- Breakfast and lunch on the optional day, 24. March, for free
- Welcome Dinner on the 21. March for free
- Reimbursement of travel costs, as follows:
Student teachers and in-service teachers from EU-countries receive a reimbursement of their real travel costs up to an amount of 650 EUR. The reimbursement limit depends on the country of origin.
IMPORTANT: Please, be aware that the travel costs can be reimbursed only AFTER the event.
FUNDING AND PARTICIPATION FEE FOR GERMAN SERVING TEACHERS:
Teachers from German secondary schools are very welcome to participate.
The participation in all courses is free of charge.
German participants pay a participation fee only to cover the costs for refreshments (lunches, welcome dinner, coffee breaks) and social program, as follows:
- participation on the 21st March (two coffee breaks, lunch, welcome dinner): 70 EUR
- participation on the 22nd March (two coffe breaks, lunch, dinner snacks): 50 EUR
- participation on the 23rd March (two coffe breaks, lunch, dinner snacks): 50 EUR
- participation on the 24th March (coffee breaks and lunch): 30 EUR