The increasing systemic crises of our world confront us with the necessitiy of a profound eco-social transition. At this civilizational turning point, new challenges arise for schools and teachers:
How can education contribute to the transformation towards a sustainable and just world society?
How can young people be motivated and empowered to play a critical and active role in shaping social conditions and sustainable lifestyles?
How can schools become social space of learning a for hands-on sustainability and social justice?
The UNESCO concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), with is also to be implemented in Lower Saxony's universities and schools, provides a framework and numerous suggestions for the interdisciplinary implementation of sustainability topics in the classroom and for the systemic transformation of educational institutions.
Many actors inside and outside of schools have already set out with ESD and are contributing courageously and creatively to a new learning culture and to educational change. They are convinced that a different world is possible if a different education creates utopian and emancipatory space for it!
The project "Teaching Change- Development and Testing of Teaching Concepts on Basic Climate Protection and Sustainability Topics in Teacher Training" aims to sensitize and strengthen prospective teachers and special needs educators across subjects and school types in their important role as multipliers fpr sustainability and social change. To this end, ESD is to be integrated as a cross-cutting topic teacher training.
Teaching-learning concepts on ESD developed in the project are initially to tested and evaluated in three reference subjects- chemistry didactics, political didactics and special needs education; implementation in other subjects is desired. In addition, interidsciplinary ESD qualification and networking opportunities for students and teachers are planned. Concepts and materials will be made freely available and can be used by lecturers to integrate ESD.
The coordination office is happy to provide advice and further implementation ideas around ESD and transformative learning.
More detailed info about the offers of Teaching Change can be found in the next section.
The project is financed from the university‘s funds to improve the climate related quality of studying ("Klimatopf Lehre") and runs from 01.11.2022-31.03.2025. 75% of the project is located at the Leibniz School of Education and 25% at the Green Office. The project is supervised by Prof. Dr. Bettina Lindmeier.
Activities and Offers of the Project
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Learning Offers for Students
Docked to didactic seminars of different subjects and in interdisciplinary seminars (key qualifications) students learn the basics of ESD (background, goals, content, didactics) in a theory-practice oriented way and are invited to develop, test and reflect their own teaching concepts and project ideas.
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Support Services for Lecturers
With teaching cooperations, lecturers in the field of teacher training are supported in the integration of ESD approaches. The learning progress of the students is evaluated and flows into the reflected further development of the teaching offers. On needs base, the capacity of lecturers is built through training courses, networking opportunities or didactic workshops. The results of the project will be published in a guideline for the integration of ESD in teacher training and discussed with a larger public in the context of a symposium. The coordination office is also available for individual consultation on the implementation of ESD.
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Online Platform for Teaching-Learning Concepts and Materials
The teaching-learning concepts and accompanying materials developed by Teaching Change are made available online to other lecturers as Open Educational Resources. All LUH lecturers are invited to share teaching concepts, good practice examples or educational materials that offer general or subject-specific or suggestions for implementing ESD in teaching.
Project Coordination
30167 Hannover
