Understanding Sustainability with Pedagogical Practice

ISBN-13: 9789819926862 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book shares with an international audience of teachers, scholars, and policymakers the experience of pedagogical practices to facilitate sustainability in the world. Sustainability is seen here as a journey toward the end state of sustainable development. Therefore, the authors contribute different roads to engage teachers and students with pedagogical discourse. Overall, the book demonstrates the value of powerful knowledge through action-oriented learning based on a bottom-up process. Consequently, pedagogical practices are understood as the instructional approaches based on a social constructivist model in which active learning is performed with student-to-student engagement.Secondary teachers in social sciences and university professors in geography find the study to be a valuable source of stimulation for incorporating new ideas and resolving common problems in their learning and teaching environments. Education policymakers around the world also benefit from the only publication that presents international perspectives on geographical knowledge related to sustainability.The contributing authors are experienced scientists in the field of geography education who are giving special attention to pedagogical practices that promote new directions toward sustainable thinking.This book is the first outcome of an international collaboration officially established in 2023 between the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University and the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth.

Spis treści

Part I: Pedagogic Discourse toward Sustainability

1. Recontextualizing Sustainability: Regulative and Instructional Discourse              

    Osvaldo Muñiz Solari

2. Learning culture, Competencies and Consequences for Sustainability

    Gabriele Schrüfer

Part II: Uncertainty and Transformative Education for Sustainable Development

3. Dealing with Uncertainty in a Transformative Education for Sustainable Development

    Fabian Pettig, Ulrike Ohl

4. Education for Sustainable Development in a Culture of Digitality

    Inga Gryl

5. School Geography as Radical Global Citizen Education

    John Huckle

6. Sustainable Contradictions? The Prospect for an Eco-socialist School Geography

    John Morgan

 

Part III: Practicing Sustainability in a Pedagogical Context

7. Bringing Sustainability into the Classroom

    Billiah Gisore

8. Subject Matter Knowledge and Sustainability – Implications for Classroom Instruction

    Chew-Hung Chang, Phoebe Ow

9. Teaching with Geographical Situations to Practice Sustainability

    Sonia Maria Vanzella Castellar

10. Geography Education for Sustainable Development through Problem-based Learning

      Luiza Olim de Sousa, Aubrey Golightly

11. Factors Affecting Geography Pre-service Teachers’ Perception about Education for Sustainable Development

      Thao Phuong Nguyen, Thach Quang Trinh, Tuan Thai Hoang, May Xuan Thi Do, Thang Huu Nguyen, Anh Ngoc Nguyen, Yen Hai Thi Ngo

12. Geographical Knowledge and (Education for) Sustainable Development in Geography Curricula

      Péter Bagoly-Simó

13. Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Practicing Sustainable Geographies through Online Technology Integration

      Alejandro Cascante Campos

14. Practicing students SDG Strategies through Fieldwork – Exploring Student Perspectives on Green Urban Planning Models in a Nature Park

      Skou Grindsted

 

Part IV: Final Remarks

15. Opportunities and Challenges in Geography Education to Practice Sustainability        Education

      Osvaldo Muñiz Solari, Gabriele Schrüfer

 

O autorze

Osvaldo Muñiz Solari is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University, USA. His major research interests in geography education are new technologies for global collaboration, learning strategies, and recontextualization of knowledge. He is an advisory member of the International Geographical Union—Commission on Geographical Education steering committee, and a member of the US national section of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History.

Gabriele Schrüfer is a professor and the chair of Didactics of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her major research interests in geography education are education for sustainable development, global learning, intercultural learning, decolonization of Africa in geography lessons, and the learning of geography in the age of digitality. She founded the Center for Global Learning at the University of Bayreuth and chairs the working group for the Orientation Framework on Global Development for the subject of geography. She is also a member of the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies”.