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Differences in teachers' professional action competence in education for sustainable development Universiteit Antwerpen KU Leuven
This study builds on a research-practitioner partnership embedded within an education for sustainable development (ESD) project and aims to explore the major potential challenges (i.e., disciplinary boundaries set by subject specialization, especially in secondary education) and success factors (i.e., teacher co-learning experiences in ESD) associated with differences in teachers’ professional action competence (PACesd) in a sample of 557 ...
Academics in the field of education for sustainable development Universiteit Antwerpen
Recent policy and academic voices in the field of Education for Sustainable Development put forward the importance of a holistic approach to the concept of Sustainable Development. We investigated the personal understanding of Sustainable Development of scholars involved in teacher training programs and in the academic field of Education for Sustainable Development. To this purpose, an on-line survey was conducted based on the principle of ...
Education for sustainable development in Flanders: the UN Decade and beyond KU Leuven
This chapter addresses the prospects for ESD policymaking in Flanders, a sub-national entity of Belgium, beyond the UN-Decade. An analysis of the policymaking process in the context of the Decade shows how policy discourses and practices are inextricably intertwined with three broader developments in environmental and educational policy: the increasing impact of ESD policy and discourse on environmental education, the framing of social and ...
Designing powerful learning environments in education for sustainable development Universiteit Antwerpen
Policymakers have pinpointed the importance of living in a more sustainable society. Education for Sustainable Development aims at developing future citizens competent to take actions in order to cope with Sustainable Development issues. The instructional design that teachers apply in class play a crucial role in students’ learning. This study is a conceptual analysis based on a narrative review of the literature in the field of Environmental ...
Teachers’ beliefs, interests and instructional practices in education for sustainable development Universiteit Antwerpen
Modern societies have been strongly confronted with a range of environmental and social issues. Policy- makers, youth, as well as research urge for escalating our efforts towards a more sustainable society. Sustainable Development (SD) focuses on improving the quality of environment and quality of life via an equitable economic growth. To achieve Sustainable Development, we need to undertake actions in order to cope with Sustainable Development ...
Enabling effective education for sustainable development Universiteit Antwerpen
In this study, we investigate the relation between the school organization and outcomes of education for sustainable development, namely students’ action competence in sustainable development. Data were collected among 629 students. At the organizational level, we collected data among 207 school staff concerning organizational characteristics including school resources, sustainable leadership, pluralistic communication, supportive relations, ...
The effectiveness of education for sustainable development Universiteit Antwerpen
Perhaps the most important issue in our time is how to sustain our planets resources, while developing wealth and well-being for a growing population. This monumental task has been defined in the concept of sustainable development (SD). During the last few decades the world communities have agreed upon addressing SD through international treaties. As a response Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has been launched as an answer to cope ...
Conceptualizing Education for Sustainable Development in Urban Secondary Schools Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This conceptual paper explores the characteristics of education for sustainable development (ESD) within urban secondary schools. Despite the discourse about the importance of sustainability, there has been a lack of research on this topic. The authors employed theory synthesis, which resulted in a concept for Education for Sustainable Development in Urban Contexts (ESDUC). This presents a comprehensive view on the interconnected characteristics ...
Globalisation and education for sustainable development : exploring the global in motion Universiteit Gent
The article explores education for sustainable development (ESD) as a policy concept in different spaces and how it is re-articulated as part of a process of globalisation. The objective is to explore empirically an alternative set of logics in order to conceive of this process of globalisation. With this objective in mind, the article investigates articulations of ESD and sustainable development in Vietnamese and Thai policy-making, and ...