The course is a core cross-cutting course for students enrolled in all undergraduate degree programs in Faculty of Sciences and Education. The course is aimed to equip participants with a critical understanding of the Sustainable Development (SD) and Education for Sustainable (ESD) principles, debate and practices focusing on social, environmental, and economic forces underlying sustainable development. The course describes challenges, conflicts and explores potential approaches to address their causes. The course adopts global and local comparative perspective, exploring the specific conditions for intervention in different contexts from all over the world. It equips the learners with the knowledge and skills to initiate and promote sustainability practices, and prepares the learners to become educators of sustainable development.
Course objectives
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the concepts of sustainable development and ESD.
- Describe local and global sustainability challenges.
- Design a sustainability project to solve a sustainability challenge in your community.
- Implement a sustainability development project in your local community.
- Demonstrate skills for educating for sustainable development
- Demonstrate skills and competences that are reflexive, critical and sensitive to sustainability practices
Expected outcomes
- Teachers who have the knowledge and skills for sustainable development.
- Teachers who can educate for sustainable development.
- Teachers who can influence their learners and the community to adopt sustainable development practices
- Teachers who are competent to participate in community development projects.
- Teachers who are reflexive, critical and sensitive to sustainability practices