<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Sustainability is becoming an integral part of vocational schools since schools are called to respond to the environmental crises and unsustainability issues in the community as well as to an unsustainable economic development. Vocational schools have to play a significant role is re-orienting students’ frames of reference towards sustainability for a well-being of the Earth.</p><p>The aim of the article is to explore teachers’ views on their gains of integrating sustainability and the use of sustainability pedagogies as a result of participation in three years long international project. The article reflects on teachers’ efforts of reorienting the curriculum of a vocational school towards sustainability within the framework of the international Erasmus+ project <italic>“Methods for ESD – competencies and curricula”</italic> (MetESD), led by Vechta University.</p></abstract>

Sustainability is becoming an integral part of vocational schools since schools are called to respond to the environmental crises and unsustainability issues in the community as well as to an unsustainable economic development. Vocational schools have to play a significant role is re-orienting students’ frames of reference towards sustainability for a well-being of the Earth.The aim of the article is to explore teachers’ views on their gains of integrating sustainability and the use of sustainability pedagogies as a result of participation in three years long international project. The article reflects on teachers’ efforts of reorienting the curriculum of a vocational school towards sustainability within the framework of the international Erasmus+ project “Methods for ESD – competencies and curricula” (MetESD), led by Vechta University.

Meeting the Challenges of ESD Competency – Based Curriculum in a Vocational School Setting

Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education

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Sustainability is becoming an integral part of vocational schools since schools are called to respond to the environmental crises and unsustainability issues...

Meeting the Challenges of ESD Competency – Based Curriculum in a Vocational School Setting

Published Online: Jan 11, 2018

Page range: 103 - 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/dcse-2017-0019

Keywords
Competencies, curriculum, sustainability, system perspective, vocational school’s venue

© 2017 Dzintra Iliško et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Meeting the Challenges of ESD Competency – Based Curriculum in a Vocational School Setting

Published Online: Jan 11, 2018

Page range: 103 - 113

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/dcse-2017-0019

KeywordsCompetencies, curriculum, sustainability, system perspective, vocational school’s venue

© 2017 Dzintra Iliško et al., published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
Competencies, curriculum, sustainability, system perspective, vocational school’s venue