Developing teacher competences for education for sustainable development through reflection: the Environment and School Initiatives approach

The introduction to this paper gives a short overview of the Environment and Schools Initiatives (ENSI) perspective on teaching competences. We argue that as change is one of the key elements of sustainable development, reflection that helps to adapt educational practice to a continuously developing...

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Published in:Journal of education for teaching : JET 2007-05, Vol.33 (2), p.241-256
Main Authors: Varga, Attila, Kószó, Mária Fu˝z, Mayer, Michela, Sleurs, Willy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Action Research
Case Studies
Education
Educational Practices
Environmental Education
Foreign Countries
Hungary
Inservice Education
Preservice Teacher Education
Preservice Teachers
Professional development
Program Descriptions
Reflective Teaching
Schools
Student teachers
Sustainable Development
Teacher Competencies
Teacher education
Teaching
Teaching Methods
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Summary:The introduction to this paper gives a short overview of the Environment and Schools Initiatives (ENSI) perspective on teaching competences. We argue that as change is one of the key elements of sustainable development, reflection that helps to adapt educational practice to a continuously developing world should be a starting point for every educator dealing with education for sustainable development (ESD). The ENSI perspective is that different competence lists constitute a basis for this continuous reflection. The paper gives two examples from ENSI activities in the field of developing teacher reflection regarding ESD in teacher education. For pre-service teacher education a one-year, action research based training course is examined. In in-service education an analysis of a sequence of project supporting workshops is presented. The paper concludes by identifying some future steps, which are necessary if teacher competences are to be used in ESD.
ISSN:0260-7476
1360-0540
DOI:10.1080/02607470701259564