Plenary Session II: Reorienting Teacher Education for Sustainable Development
Content Issues in ESD/ESDA in a More Overarching Way - Socialization Content and the Implications for Teacher Education in Practice
Per Sund, Mälardalen University, Sweden
The aim of this paper is to contribute to an improved knowledge about socialization content - an indispensable part of the environmental education (EE) and education for sustainable development (ESD) content. The intention is not to dictate which content teachers or teacher educators should include in ESD, but rather to make researchers, teachers and teacher educators more aware of the existence of the different qualitative aspects of the socialization content in which subject matter is taught. Differences in socialization content can be used for specifying certain qualitative differences between EE and education for sustainable development approach (ESDA). In this study, subject matter and socialization content are together regarded as an educational content in a more overarching way.
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