Environmental and Sustainability Education in Francophone Europe

Herausgeber: Pache, Alain; Partoune, Christine; Glaudel, Anne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents eleven contributions illustrating the main areas of research in French-speaking Europe in the field of environmental and sustainability education (ESE). It argues that although research in the field of ESE is well established, it is not yet structured at a national level, whether in France, Belgium or Switzerland.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781032970028
• ISBN-10: 1032970022
• Artikelnr.: 71743546

Autorenporträt

Alain Pache is Professor of Geographical Education and Education for Sustainability at the University of Teacher Education State of Vaud, Lausanne (Switzerland). He is head of the Didactics of the Humanities and Social Sciences teaching unit and head of the International Research Laboratory on Education for Sustainability (LirED). He is also a member of the Council of the Swiss Society for Educational Research. His research focuses on teaching and learning processes in the fields of Geographical Education and Education for Sustainability, with a special interest in the role of language in the classroom and the development of children's thinking. Anne Glaudel is Lecturer in educational sciences at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne (France). Based at the Centre for Studies and Research on Jobs and Professionalizations (CEREP). She focuses on the actual practices of teaching geography in the school context and on Education for the Environment and Sustainable Development. She studies language productions about space and environment: language interactions between teacher and pupils, discourse of students and teachers in vocational training, and graphic representations of pupils. Christine Partoune is Honorary Professor-researcher of Didactics in Geography both at the University of Liège and at the Haute Ecole Libre mosane, in Liège. She is a member of the Research Center in Education and Training relating to the environment and eco-citizenship (Centr'ErE-UQAM) and of the Research Unit in Didactics and Teacher Training (Didactifen - ULiège). Her recent research focuses on environmental education, particularly on landscape education and on place-based and community-based learning.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: environmental and sustainability education in compulsory
education: challenges and practices in Francophone Europe 1. How is
biodiversity understood in compulsory education textbooks? A lexicographic
analysis of teaching programs in the French-speaking part of Switzerland
2. Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with
what form of integration and with what content? 3. How do students at the
end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development
of the Seine in France? What avenues for education? 4. A sustainable
development project including a role-play: analysis of teachers' intentions
to promote students'engagement 5. Climate change, a challenging topic in
the French curriculum (in 7th grade) 6. Assessment of cross-cutting
competences in education for sustainable development. Example of the Swiss
research project transformations 7. The role of 'experience' in teaching
innovation in education for sustainable development in France 8. ESD in
school: Understanding French-speaking Swiss pupils' representations of
sustainability 9. Development of teachers' practices in the field of
education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of
interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate 10.
Research approaches in ESD/ESE: reflections of Swiss researchers 11. A
five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training