The project is realised in cooperation with the university and the NGO SEVER. The applied research focuses on analysing SEVER's teacher education programmes, which are delivered as a year-long in-service training course for teachers. These programmes include School for Sustainable Life, which develops place-based education programmes in schools, and Environmental Education, which delivers innovative pedagogical methods. The research explores the possibilities of applying competences for sustainable development in the Czech education system, providing evidence to support their consideration as educational objectives and offering possibilities for their assessment as expected outcomes.
The project aims to link formal and non-formal education, reorient educational objectives towards sustainability and emphasise a future-oriented perspective by offering innovative approaches. The competences developed theoretically for ESD are applied in practice, with obstacles identified and ways to overcome them. Thus, teacher education in sustainability is supported methodologically. The results will contribute to the UNESCO ESD 2030 Country Initiative.
The main objective is to incorporate the ESD into teacher training programmes and deliver a methodology for sustainability-oriented, competence-based teaching that can be reflected in Czech curricula. Teacher education programmes will be supported for two and a half years by the project, and cooperation between RCE partners will be supported for three years.
- Two teacher education programmes running for two and a half years, with around 50 graduate teachers per school year and certificates of attendance.
- Around 50 graduate teachers are produced per school year, and certificates of attendance are awarded.
- The programmes connect learners with practical environmental and sustainability issues in their town or village. The goal is to research local conditions.
- Communities are involved in the School for Sustainable Life, with the goal of developing programmes for the local community.
- Pupils co-construct projects to change the local environment as part of the School for Sustainable Life programme.
- Collaborative strategies are developed at school and community level.
- The emotional relationship with the place is explored and developed.
- Place-based education builds on local resources and promotes local solutions to global problems.
- The practical focus of the programmes is based on interdisciplinary dialogue.