Education for sustainability and resilience
Invitation to Event in Erasmus + Education for sustainability and resilience
Learning, teaching, and training event by Åbo Akademi University
Welcome to participate and be a part in the project that aims to address the challenges we face today regarding issues of sustainability. The challenges of how education can meet the new generations’ call for action.
When: 1 December 2021
Where: The program will be broadcast online.
The sessions will be recorded and published at storyline.education
09:00 am Opening session
Catharina Groop, deputy Director at Åbo Akademi / Centre for Lifelong Learning
Eva Marsh, coordinator of the Project Erasmus + Education for sustainability and resilience.
09:30 Session 1 Entrepreneurial learning - possibilities and challenges. Examples from different national curriculums. Teachers’ role and students’ role. 21st century skills.
Johanna Gagner and Daniel Lundqvist
10:30 Session 2 Transformative learning – scientific background and implications for education on different levels. Teachers’ role and students’ role.
Margaretha Häggström and Ann-Catherine Henriksson
11.30 Lunchbreak
12:30 pm Session 3 Practical workshops where the participants have the opportunity to try out short episodes from different Storyline topics.
Virginia Lockhart-Pedersen, Margaretha Häggström and Gitte Motzfeldt
14.00 Break
14.15 Session 4 Workshop, open space for discussion and deeper understanding of UNESCO’s declaration. Possible starting point - what does teaching look like when it meets the following goals: “It is not enough to supply each child early in life with a store of knowledge to be drawn on from then on. Each individual must be equipped to seize learning opportunities throughout life, both to broaden her or his knowledge, skills and attitudes, and to adapt to a changing, complex and interdependent world” (UNESCO, 1996: 85)
Ylva Lundin, Johanna Gagner and Daniel Lundqvist
15.45 Closing session, Eva Marsh, coordinator of the Project Erasmus + Education for sustainability and resilience.
16:00 End of the Event
