Sustainabilty Education

This learning material has been developed by the academy Teacher Education for a Future in Flux (teff). With these materials, we offer an opportunity to all interested teachers, trainee teachers and students to take a dive into the world of sustainability and ponder how educators can contribute to sustainable futures. This digital learning module takes you through different understandings of sustainability, reflects on various approaches to sustainability education and finishes by helping you to incorporate all the above into your own teaching.

This course gives you an introduction to sustainability education through three different modules:

In the first module, we dive into the broad concept of sustainability, exploring different understandings of sustainability and examining the complexities and uncertainties related to the future-tied topic. We tackle the multifaceted theme by exploring frameworks such as weak and strong sustainability, sustainable development goals, planetary boundaries and sustainability transformations.

In the second module, we take a closer look at what sustainability means in the context of education: what approaches to sustainability competencies are there and how is sustainability education conceptualised? We explore how sustainability education can be implemented into schools through the Whole School Approach.

In the third module, we take the previously discussed topics and reflect on how they contextualise into your teaching practices. We explore how you as an educator can incorporate sustainability into your teaching and how this can impact your learners.

The modules each build onto the concepts of the preceding module, so we strongly encourage you to complete this digital course in order, starting with “Sustainability as a Concept” and finishing with “Sustainability Education Planning”. However, once you’ve completed the course, feel free to access the materials in any order you wish and revisit any interesting materials you would like to use in your own studies or teaching!

This Online Course has been developed by the Erasmus+ Teacher Academy “Teacher Education for a Future in Flux (teff)”.