Training course

Global problems, including climate change, biodiversity decrease, social inequalities, and tensions, are systemic challenges in which education has a key role to play. Civic participation and activity, responsibility for the sustainable development of the local community and the world characterize modern education and the competencies that must be acquired to implement education for social and green sustainability.

The training course enables ECEC professionals and participants to deepen their understanding of the potential of education to create a peaceful, equitable and ecologically balanced world, and encourages practitioners to develop competence to act and be aware of social and green sustainability through collaboration between the educational institution and the local community. The aim of the training course to promote the improvement of responsible pedagogical action to facilitate the implementation of social and green sustainability principles and find out how to implement these principles in the daily activities of ECEC.

MAIN LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Develop a heightened awareness and practice of social and green sustainability
• Embed the principles of social and green sustainability into the new competence curriculum on CPD
• Improve pedagogical competence for actualization of sustainable development in an educational institution and daily activities, as well as in the context of local and global community.

CONTENT OF THE TRAINING COURSE:

• Sustainable and ecological education in preschool.
• Global social and green sustainability challenges in everyday life and education
• Basics of sustainability: well-being and harmonious development.
• Learning strategies and approaches and methods for implementation of social and green sustainability principles in daily activities in ECEC.
• Green entrepreneurship education – general description.
• Global challenges of social and green sustainability to improve the quality of life for existing and future generations.
• Good practices of social and green sustainability learning in preschool.