Sustainable Development Teaching: Ethical and Political Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780367729585 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 246 str.

Katrien Van Poeck; Leif Östman; Johan Öhman

Opis

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and the teaching challenges related to environmental and sustainability education.

Spis treści

Introduction: Sustainable development teaching – ethical and political challenges  PART I: Education and the challenge of building a more sustainable world  1. Four misunderstandings about sustainability and transitions 2. Tackling wicked problems in teaching and learning. Sustainability issues as knowledge, ethical and political challenges  3. Principles for sustainable development teaching  PART II: Choosing teaching content and approaches  4. Sustainable development teaching in view of qualification, socialisation and person-formation   5. Different teaching traditions in environmental and sustainability education  6. The ethical tendency typology: Ethical and moral situations in environmental and sustainability education  7. A pragmatist perspective on value education  8. The political tendency typology: Different ways in which the political dimension of sustainability issues appears in educational practice  9. Deliberation and agonism: Two different approaches to the political dimension of environmental and sustainability education  PART III: Designing and implementing teaching and learning practices  10. A transactional theory on sustainability learning  11. A transactional theory on sustainability teaching: Teacher moves  12. Ethical moves: How teachers can open-up a space for articulating moral reactions and deliberating on ethical opinions regarding sustainability issues  13. Political moves: How teachers can open-up for and handle poignant experiences of the conflictual aspects of sustainability issues  14. Classroom discussions: Students’ learning in argumentation about ethical and political aspects of sustainability issues  15. Power and governance in environmental and sustainability education practice  16. Teaching as a matter of staging encounters with literary texts in environmental and sustainability education  17. Taking-up ethical global issues in the classroom  18. Students as political subjects in discourses on sustainable development – a glimpse from Sarah’s classroom  19. Embodied experiences of ‘decision-making’ in face of uncertain and complex sustainability issues  20. Political emotions in environmental and sustainability education

O autorze

Katrien Van Poeck is a senior researcher on environmental and sustainability education at Ghent University’s Centre for Sustainable Development, Belgium.

Leif Östman is Professor of Curriculum Studies at Uppsala University’s Department of Education, Sweden.

Johan Öhman is Professor of Education at Örebro University’s School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Sweden.