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Institut für LehrerInnenbildung und Schulforschung Institut für LehrerInnenbildung und Schulforschung

Adjunct Professor Irma Eloff Adjunct Professor Irma Eloff

626890

VO Lebensweltliche Mehrsprachigkeit und Interkulturalität im Schul- und Bildungssystem II

VO 2

2,5

wöch.

jährlich

Englisch

Students who engage fully with the course material can expect the following learning outcomes and competencies:

·         Raised awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals

·         Elevated understandings of the role of teachers in ensuring sustainable quality education, poverty alleviation, health and wellbeing, intercultural sensitivity and reduced inequalities

·         Improved skills for teaching in a global context

·         Development of research skills and strategies to disseminate key messages in sustainability sciences

 

This course will explore the roles of teachers in sustainability.  It will investigate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as formulated in Agenda2030, as it pertains to global classrooms.  The 17 Sustainable Development Goals are Global Goals that are intended to create a better world by 2030, by ending poverty, fighting inequality and addressing the urgency of climate change. Governments, universities, businesses, civil society organizations and the general public can utilise the SDGs to work together to build a better future for everyone.

Teachers are critical role players to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is an important vehicle by which sustainability can be supported.  Yet, there are numerous nuances of the roles of teachers in sustainability that needs deeper understanding.

In this course, students will therefore be oriented towards key issues in sustainability.  They will then also implement a strategy to address a challenge in the field of sustainability.

The course and lectures are presented online.  It will be presented in 6 intensive four-hour block lectures over a period of four weeks. Lecture dates are:

24 October 2023:        13:00 – 17:00 AND 17:00 – 21:00

7 November 2023:      13:00 – 17:00 AND 17:00 – 21:00

14 November 2023:    13:00 – 17:00 AND 17:00 – 21:00

On the first day of lectures students will be orientated towards the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda2030.  On the second day of lectures students will receive initial training on research skills in sustainability sciences and strategies that teachers can use to support the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030.  On the third, and final, day of lectures, students will have the opportunity to share and reflect on their ideas for the assignment they will submit for the course, e.g. a poster, a podcast or a written assignment.

The course can be completed synchronously (by attending lectures in real time) or asynchronously (by working through recorded lectures and presentations in own time).  However, there will be a 90-minute time slot on each lecture day where group work will be conducted.  Attendance of the group work sessions is required. It will take place from 17:00 – 18:30 on 24 October, 7 November and 14 November. Please ensure that you attend these group work sessions in-time.

In-person attendance of the first day of lectures is strongly recommended.  Peer-to-peer support and study groups amongst students outside of lecture time are also recommended.

The lecture time is used to engage with assignments according to the upper end of Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning, e.g. analysing, evaluating and creating new knowledge on the Sustainable Development Goals and the teaching profession.  Students will be provided with multiple learning opportunities and mini-tasks to complete at their own pace within the timeframe of the course. 

Submission of assignment on sustainability:

As the assignment for the course, students will complete one of three assignments,

i)              creating a data-driven poster on sustainability, OR

ii)            create a short, informative podcast on sustainability OR

iii)           complete a written assignment that illustrate personal experiences of sustainability. 

Learning outcomes will be assessed by the submission of either a poster, a podcast or a written assignment.  In addition to the poster, podcast, or written assignment a process description and a discussion on literature that relates to the matters that emanate from the poster, podcast, or written assignment will be included.  The process description and discussion could be 2-5 pages, but no page restrictions are set for the length of the assignment.

The poster, podcast, or written assignment should be related to at least one of the Sustainable Development Goals.  Data for the poster, podcast, or written assignment should be recent and should acknowledge current, global discourses on sustainability. 

A broad template will be provided for the completion of the assignment, but students will have a wide margin of freedom in terms of the content of the poster, podcast, or written assignment. 

The portfolios will be assessed for applicability of Sustainable Development content, the creation of new knowledge on teaching and sustainability, comprehensiveness and details, innovation and technical quality.

More details of the assignment will be shared during the first lecture.

·         Eloff, I., Mathabathe, K., Agostini, E., Dittrich, A.-K. (2022)  Teaching the Global Goals: Exploring the Experiences of Teacher Educators in an Online-Environment through Vignette Research. Environmental Sciences Proceedings, 15,(1), 5; e1-9.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/environsciproc2022015005

 

·         Madalinska-Michalak, J.  (Ed.) (2022) Quality in Teaching and Teacher Education: International Perspectives from a Changing World. Leiden: Brill Publishers.

 

·         UNESCO (2020) Humanistic futures of learning. Paris: UNESCO.

 

·         United Nations (2015) Transforming our world: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable development A/RES/70/1. New York: United Nations.

 

·         Walter Leal Filho, Ulisses Azeiteiro, Fátima Alves, Paul Pace, Mark Mifsud, Luciana Brandli, Sandra S. Caeiro & Antje Disterheft (2018) Reinvigorating the sustainable development research agenda: the role of the sustainable development goals (SDG), International Journal of Sustainable Development & World Ecology, 25:2, 131-142. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504509.2017.1342103

 

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