Constructing Education for Sustainable Development: The Secondary School Geography Curriculum and Initial Teacher Training

Autor/inn/en	Firth, Roger; Winter, Christine
Titel	Constructing Education for Sustainable Development: The Secondary School Geography Curriculum and Initial Teacher Training
Quelle	In: Environmental Education Research, 13 (2007) 5, S.599-619 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-4622
Schlagwörter	Geography Instruction; Student Teachers; Foreign Countries; Sustainable Development; Secondary School Curriculum; Preservice Teacher Education; Secondary School Teachers; Standards; Educational Change; Learning Strategies; Environmental Education; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Lehramtsstudent; Lehramtsstudentin; Referendar; Referendarin; Ausland; Nachhaltige Entwicklung; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Standard; Bildungsreform; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Großbritannien
Abstract	If education is a solution in working toward a sustainable future then initial teacher training (ITT) provides a strategic opportunity for ensuring that all teachers are able to teach for sustainability when they begin their teaching careers. This paper reports on a study of how four Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) student teachers planned and taught education for sustainable development (ESD) through geography during a school placement. It was carried out to provide exemplification of the nature of student teachers' planning and teaching about ESD in secondary schools in England and to identify ways of improving their PGCE course. The findings are based on interviews with student teachers after the school placement, as well documentary evidence. Policy-driven changes in the provision of both ITT and school curricula and pedagogy in England are an important context for the study. The paper concludes by arguing that ITT faces considerable challenges if it is to be reoriented towards sustainability. A sample of the Class information and scheme of work theme as defined by the student teachers is appended. (Contains 6 notes.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10