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Portrait of the speaker Jorrit Holst

UNESCO Chair Lecture: Jorrit Holst on Whole-School Sustainability

What does it take for a whole school to become a place where sustainability is learned? In his lecture, Jorrit Holst (FU Berlin) presented the Whole-School Approach, what is known about its effectiveness, and pathways for transformation. The UNESCO Chair Lecture Series, hosted by the UNESCO Chair in Higher

Portraits of the eleven members of the LoLE advisory board

Advisory Board of the LoLE Project: Research, Policy, Civil Society and Young Voices

The LoLE project is supported by an advisory board that combines expertise from ESD, educational leadership, youth empowerment, and policy making. Research Prof. Dr. Lydia Kater-WettstädtProfessor of Primary Education, University of KoblenzProfile Lydia is professor for primary education with a focus and basic and social sciences at the University

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What Truly Matters: Rethinking Assessment in ESD

In a commentary published in the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development, Daniel Fischer (Leuphana University Lüneburg / UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development) together with Jordan King (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) and Aaron Redman (Arizona State University) argue that learning assessment in ESD is critically underdeveloped — and

Pencil drawing of an open field notebook with plant sketches, binoculars and a piece of smoked cheese on a rock in front of forested Carpathian slopes

Transdisciplinary Learning in Action: ProBioTIC Field Excursion to the Carpathians

As part of the ProBioTIC project (Promoting Biodiversity through Transdisciplinary Learning Interventions in the Carpathians), Leuphana University has developed a seminar focused on transdisciplinary outreach for this biodiverse region. The class divided themselves into four groups, each developing a project focused on one of the following topics: * Human-nature interactions,

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Education for Sustainable Consumption: Beyond Green Shopping

What should Education for Sustainable Consumption aim for, if sustainable consumption is about more than green purchasing? In their entry for the Routledge volume Vocabulary for Sustainable Consumption and Lifestyles: A Language for Our Common Future, Ulf Schrader and Daniel Fischer give a short overview of the concept, its history,

Vocational Education for Sustainable Development: A Whole School Approach Guide

Vocational Education for Sustainable Development: A Whole School Approach Guide

A practical guide (in German) for vocational schools that want to become places of sustainability, from school development in the Whole School Approach to lesson design. By Jorrit Holst and Harald Hantke for Greenpeace's Schools for Earth.

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Time for Sustainability: How Students Can (Re-)learn Their Use of Time

Can learning to use one’s time differently be part of Education for Sustainable Development? In a new article in Time & Society, Pascal Frank (Wageningen University & Research), Claire Grauer and Daniel Fischer report on a school intervention from the ReZeitKon project (Time Rebound, Time Wealth and Sustainable Consumption)