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Fashion DIET (Sustainable Fashion Curriculum at Textile Universities in Europe – Development, Implementation and Evaluation of a Teaching Module for Educators) is an EU funded project under the Key Action “Strategic Partnerships” of the Erasmus+ Programme. From September 2020 until August 2023, the international project has been developing teaching and learning arrangements under the lead management of the University of Education Freiburg. Partner universities are Reutlingen University in Germany, Gheorghe Asachi Iaşi University of Technology in Romania and Trakia University Stara Zagora in Bulgaria.
The devastating environmental and social implications of the fast fashion and textile industry which prevailed throughout the last decades make it of high relevance to integrate the targets of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) of the UN into the entire textile value chain, i.e. production, consumption and disposal sites, to make it fully sustainable and positive for people and the ecosystems. The upcoming transformation of the textile and fashion industry towards sustainability therefore requires nothing less than a continuous implementation of the guiding principle Education for Sustainability Development (ESD) in education and training.
The Fashion DIET project aimed to foster the process of ESD implementation in national educational systems. The project’s major goal was to develop an ESD further education module in the context of fashion and textiles for universities since teachers and learners will have to cooperate more internationally in the future to establish the guiding principle of ESD permanently on an international level. Furthermore, teaching and learning material derived from this for vocational schools and secondary education has been developed and made available as Open Educational Resources (OER) via the database Glocal Campus.
Development and Validation of an Instrument for Measuring Student Sustainability Competencies
(2019)
The importance of education, and ESD in particular, for achieving sustainable development is highlighted in the formulation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Since the Brundtland Report (1987) and the Agenda 21 conference in Rio in 1992, many measures and programs have been launched.
However, no widely accepted and validated assessment instruments are currently available to examine the output levels of ESD on the student side as a means to contribute to monitoring the effects of ESD initiatives. Furthermore, connections to the results of empirical educational
research are often lacking. Indeed, operationalization is necessary in order to evaluate actions of fostering ESD. Taking concepts of empirical educational and other relevant research findings (for example, psychology for sustainability) into account, this study develops a reliable and valid approach to measuring sustainability competencies. In this paper, novel data of a first school assessment is presented. One thousand six hundred and twenty-two students (aged from 9 to 16) participated in the survey. The paper-pencil questionnaire covers general (socio-demographic) as well as cognitive, affective, behavioral, application- and curriculum-orientated aspects of sustainability
competencies. The evidence for the validity and reliability of the instrument indicates that the presented assessment tool constitutes a suitable instrument by which to measure sustainability competencies in secondary schools. The gathered insights show a path towards the operationalization
of sustainability competencies to clarify the needs and achievements of ESD implementation
in schools.
After the end of the first Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development, coinciding with ongoing international evaluation processes, questions about the implementation of the Education for Sustainable Development programs and assessments continue to be raised. The present study examined Education for Sustainable Development implementation at the local (teachers’) level, assessing what teachers think and know about Education for Sustainable Development and how they implement it in secondary school classes in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany. By providing novel data from a teacher survey in 2019, this study revealed that Education for Sustainable Development in some aspects still lacks concrete structural implementation in educational contexts. Using a longitudinal approach, we additionally compared data from an earlier representative assessment in 2007 to the data from 2019. In reference to the preceding evaluation report, the present study showed, for example, that teachers’ attitudes towards Sustainable Development Goals were significantly higher in 2019 compared to 2007. This study provides clarification of the needs and achievements of the Education for Sustainable Development implementation process. In sum, our analysis found that from the teachers’ perspective, more abstract policies are not needed, but instead teachers ask for very concrete support that is close to teaching and the schools’ objectives. The results of our study help, in a larger sense, to navigate society towards a more sustainable direction and towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by highlighting the remaining challenges of these broad objectives.
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is a core element of UNESCO’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) Target 4.7, which seeks to ensure that all learners acquire the knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development through education for sustainable development. The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research (BMBF) followed suit in 2015 and launched a high scale national monitoring of the current state of ESD implementation. In this context, suitable ESD indicators should be analyzed to inform policy and research agendas. The present project is part of the national monitoring within Germany’s Global Action Program (GAP) actions. The research team at the University of Education in Freiburg conducted a study to evaluate the accessibility of data and the measurability of ESD-relevant teacher training (TT). During the two-step procedure for data collection on ESD-relevant TTs in Germany, an extensive list of ESD related search terms first captured 66,935 TTs with possible ESD relevance in the evaluation period. Second, the collected data was analyzed using Mayring’s qualitative content analysis. The 66,935 TTs were thereby reduced to 3818 TTs with different degrees of ESD relevance. The results of the evaluation study show that suitable ESD indicators, the FESD (formula for the ESD-indicator for TTs) (basic), FESD (basic, rated) and FESD (pro), could be developed and calculated for 15 of 16 federal states in Germany. The gathered insights show a path towards ESD monitoring in TT to clarify the needs and achievements of ESD implementation in the field of continuing education of teachers. However, the presented indicators only show a possible path for ESD indicator development. A comprehensive set of ESD indicators should also focus on the micro or output (e.g., ESD competencies) level. These insights for the future seem worth striving for not only in Germany or on the national level but also internationally to foster ESD, Target 4.7 of the SDGs and the SDGs in general.
For the field of teacher education, a particularly wide discrepancy exists between (1) higher education discourses and policies advocating a wide diffusion of international dimensions, specifically of study-related mobility (such as Erasmus stays abroad), within higher education degree programs; (2) the ideals and demands placed upon teacher education graduates to possess relevant international competences and experiences in view of their role as multipliers and professionals in increasingly multicultural and global societies; and (3) the ground-level practices, as evidenced by comparatively low mobility rates in teacher education degree programs in Europe. The study reverts to the question where this discrepancy is actually produced and how it could be addressed, thereby closing a gap in student mobility and higher education internationalization research on the diffusion barriers at work in the field of teacher education.
The thesis is set in the field of international and comparative education, and pursues a multilevel and contextualized comparative approach, involving two strands of investigation: (1) a theory-based and process-oriented quantitative inquiry into relevant obstacles for eventual participation in study-related mobility among students in teacher education degree programs; (2) and a multilevel (policy, institutions/staff, students) inquiry into the trajectories of internationalization in teacher education, in view of current higher education internationalization models. By linking and contextualizing findings from different levels and investigation strands, the study draws conclusions and gives recommendations on ways to foster study-related mobility in teacher education degree programs. Through the study’s conceptualization of participation in study-related mobility as a process, and through its reflections on strategically managing internationalization, its findings are also relevant to the higher education sector in general.
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem schwierigen Verhältnis zwischen den australischen Ureinwohnern und den europäischen Siedlern, die vor über 200 Jahren auf den fünften Kontinent kamen. Besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf das "weiße" Bildungssystem gelegt, welches die Aborigines Familien oft unter Zwang auseinander riss, und den Kindern "weiße", also westliche Doktrinen lehrte. Desweiteren wird untersucht wie man dieses Thema in den deutschen Grundschulunterricht integreieren kann.
Ausgehend von den schlechten Ergebnissen zur Lesekompetenz der deutschen Schüler, die uns die PISA-Studie ausgestellt hat, beschäftigt sich die Arbeit zunächst mit der hierzulande unterschätzten Bedeutung der Lesekompetenz sowohl für das Individuum als auch für die Gesellschaft, und analysiert im Folgenden Vorschläge und Strategien zur Förderung und Verbesserung dieser wichtigen Fähigkeit im Fach "Englisch als Fremdsprache".
Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage inwiefern Joan Aiken's "Arabel and Mortimer"-Geschichten für den Grundschulunterricht geeignet sind. Desweiteren werden Vorschläge zur schul- und kindgerechten Umsetzung mit der betreffenden Kinderliteratur entwickelt.