Training course
Social and green sustainability
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.
The pilot course on Social and Green Sustainability
The pilot training course “Social and Green Sustainability” was implemented under the guidance of three trainers who, in addition to their academic qualifications, also have professional experience in preschool and primary education.
The course involved 26 participants (15 educators + 11 students of the primary education teacher program).
It took place in a preschool educational institution and was attended by the staff of this institution, including the head of the institution, a preschool methodologist, preschool teachers, a speech therapist, a preschool music teacher, and teacher assistants.
Such joint learning fosters a shared understanding of the importance of sustainability education at the preschool level.
The course participants met in five face-to-face sessions and individual/group independent work, which were structured as follows:
- Face-to-face meetings in which participants explored questions such as: Why is this relevant and important? What do children gain when a participatory approach to sustainable development is implemented?
- Discussions focused on personal responsibility — What can I do as an individual and as a teacher?
- Participants carried out various activities in small subgroups, taking on the roles of teachers and children.
- Participants carried out individual work exploring various resources and group independent work involving the planning, development, and presentation of a learning activity to other participants.
- A final face-to-face meeting during which groups presented their work (a learning session on a sustainability topic for preschool-aged children). Discussions, feedback, and suggestions for improving the course content were provided.
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