LoLE | Leaders of Learner Empowerment
The LoLE project develops a training program that enables school leaders to foster student-led sustainability.
The LoLE project develops a training program that enables school leaders to foster student-led sustainability.
- Status
- Ongoing
- Duration
- 02/2025–01/2027
- Funding
- Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU), funding initiative “Transformative Education for Sustainable Development”
- Role of the Chair
- Project lead, Leuphana University Lüneburg
- Countries
- 8
What is it about?
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is regarded as a key concept for the societal transformation towards sustainability. School leaders play a key role in integrating ESD across the whole school (Whole School Approach, WSA), because they create the conditions that enable young people to act as change agents. Yet school leaders have so far been a neglected target group, and empirical studies show that many of them report a lack of knowledge and experience for initiating transformative change at the systemic level. How can school leaders be supported to take on this role?
Goals
- Pilot a training programme for school leaders
- Support participants in developing and implementing their own transformative, community-based change projects
- Turn the participants' case studies into practical learning materials, including guidelines for implementing the WSA in everyday school life
- Establish an international ESD network of school leaders that continues beyond the project
Approach
Participants from Germany, Canada, the USA, South Africa, Ethiopia, Costa Rica, Japan and Saudi Arabia take part in the training programme. Each of them develops and implements a change project in their own school and community, on topics such as sustainable nutrition or consumption. The findings and experiences from these case studies feed into the learning materials. The network formed by all participants is meant to support the implementation of sustainability projects and the WSA at the participating schools and beyond.
Partners
- Partner universities
- York University, Canada
- Dr. Tara Bartlettassociated with Arizona State University, USA
- Rhodes University, South Africa
- The Environmental Learning Research Centre, Rhodes University, South Africa
- Ethiopian Graduate School of Theology, Ethiopia
- University for Peace, Costa Rica
- Okayama University, Japan
- Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
- Collaboration partners
- Edustain, Germany
- LSF Canada: Research and Programs Learning for a Sustainable Future, Canada
Contact
Daniel FischerLead
Daria Brendel-HumburgCoordinatorQuestions or interested in contributing? Contact the project coordinator, Daria Brendel-Humburg.
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