Engaging Pedagogy Students in Education for Sustainable Development – Examples of Good Practices
Abstract
Education of the twenty-first century poses a number of challenges to the teacher. The ability to cope in a dynamically changing environment, new technologies, the development of the competences of the future (including soft competences), sensitivity to the problems of the modern world – these are just some of them. One of the ways to deal with these challenges is to implement education for sustainable development. Its proper implementation, which requires adequate preparation of the teacher for the profession, can contribute to the building of a sustainable society.
The purpose of this article is to present two initiatives implemented as part of the Kids Lab for Sustainability project – a learning community and an online course aimed at, among others, teaching students at Ignatianum University in Krakow. Their presentation focuses on showing the student’s involvement in the suggestion for acquiring knowledge, but above all practical skills in the topic of education for sustainability. Participating in the various stages of the project and implementing the online course, the students had the opportunity to learn about the assumptions of education based on this trend, and were encouraged to practically test the suggestions (scenarios/resources) of the activities, suggest their modifications, their own ideas or original solutions. The suggestion of such organized work resulted in positive reception and high involvement of students in the activities suggested by project members. The students appreciated both the interesting form of the materials (scenarios/resources) developed by the team implementing the Kids Lab for Sustainability project and posted on its website, as well as the way of transferring knowledge.
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