Sustainability Education and Teacher Education: Finding a Natural Habitat?

Autor/in	Buchanan, John
Titel	Sustainability Education and Teacher Education: Finding a Natural Habitat?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 28 (2012) 2, S.108-124 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
DOI	10.1017/aee.2013.4
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Sustainable Development; Focus Groups; Barriers; Teacher Education Curriculum; Interdisciplinary Approach; Intellectual Disciplines; Elementary Education; Science Education; Teaching Methods; Environmental Education; Teacher Education Programs; Social Sciences; Teacher Educators; Teacher Role; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Geisteswissenschaften; Elementarunterricht; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Teacher education; Education; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung; Lehrerrolle; Australien
Abstract	Sustainability education competes for curricular space, both in schools and in teacher education. Opportunities and barriers for the inclusion of sustainability education in an Australian university primary teacher education program are examined in this article. The study focused on the roles, practices and perceptions of teacher educators in promoting sustainability education. Three focus groups were conducted with members of faculty staff from each of the K-6 Key Learning Areas to gather data, which were analysed according to three frameworks: espoused/aspirational and actual practices of staff members; barriers to and affordances for teaching sustainability education; and the nature of initiatives, in terms of teaching/learning activities, assessment tasks, and resources. Beyond the Social Sciences, and Science and Technology, we found that inclusion of sustainability education is somewhat sporadic. The article proposes some ways forward to promote and abet sustainability education in a tertiary context. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10