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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)

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“Universities Must Remain Places for Dialogue”: Interview on the UNESCO Chairs Conference 2024

In the yearbook of the German Commission for UNESCO (in German), Daniel Fischer and Deepika Joon look back on the UNESCO Chairs conference hosted in Lüneburg in 2024.

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Learning to Shape Change Critically: The New Transformation Module at Leuphana

How can first-year students learn to analyse societal change critically and to help shape it? In a contribution (in German) to the proceedings of the second conference on Interdisciplinary Education for Sustainable Development (I-BNE), Laura Picht-Wiggering, Lina Bürgener, Daniel Fischer and Roberto Nigro (all Leuphana University Lüneburg)

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Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption

How can you effectively teach a tricky topic like sustainable consumption in your classroom? This volume explores this question in two steps: part 1 offers introductory chapters, part 2 practical examples from classrooms from across the globe. Book Abstract: This book is a comprehensive guide on how to teach sustainable

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How Leuphana Became a Sustainable University: Gerd Michelsen Looks Back

How does a university become a sustainable university, and what can others learn from the process? In the Earth Charter Magazine, Gerd Michelsen, the first holder of the UNESCO Chair in Higher Education for Sustainable Development at Leuphana, shares personal reflections on how Leuphana University Lüneburg has gradually developed into

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Fifteen Years of ESD in Higher Education: Lessons from Leuphana University

What happens when a university makes sustainability part of every student's education? In this edited volume (in German), Gerd Michelsen, Matthias Barth and Daniel Fischer bring together contributions that look back on how education for sustainable development has been put into practice at Leuphana University Lüneburg, and what