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Overall Winner, SAGT (Scottish Association of Geography Teachers) Awards 2022Winner, Global Dimension Teachers' Choice Award 2023Shortlisted, BERA Educational Research Book of the Year 2023Highly Commended, GA (Geographical Association) Publisher's Awards 2023
Sustainability Education: A Classroom Guide provides an accessible, in-depth guide and critique of sustainability education for school and university students, teachers, curriculum makers and school governors working around the world with children aged 3- to 14-years old. Informed by research findings and learning theory, it provides a progressive framework for sustainability education spanning all subject areas and applicable in a wide range of settings. There are over 180 age-related teaching ideas on topics such as conservation, health, food, wildlife, climate change, social justice and sustainable living, as well as provocative questions designed to stimulate educational debate. Written by two highly experienced UK-based educators, it draws together specially commissioned contributions from Australia, Israel, Norway, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Key concepts and links to the UN Global Goals (SDGs), are highlighted throughout. A companion website offers an extensive toolkit of specially prepared PowerPoint presentations and details of over 100 lectures, reports, picture books, websites and classroom and INSET teaching resources.
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I: Exploring Sustainability
1. Sustainability: A Hybrid Concept
2. Sustainability, Prosperity and Well-being
3. Towards a More Sustainable Future
Part II: Sustainability Education
4. Teaching About Sustainability
5. Curriculum Organisation and Management
Part III: Areas of Study
6. Earth in Space
7. Life on Land
8. A Wet Planet
9. Weather and Climate
10. Food and Farming
11. Work, Transport and Energy
12. The Global Village
13. Special Places
14. Citizenship, Communities and Democracy
15. Pollution and Resources
16. Unequal World
17. Sustainable Living
Part IV: Implementation
18. Designing Your Curriculum
19. Sustainability Education in Action
Glossary of Key Terms
References
Index
About the author
Stephen Scoffham is Visiting Reader in Sustainability and Education at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK and was President of the UK Geographical Association (2018-19).Steve Rawlinson was Chair of the Primary Geography Editorial Board (2009-2022) and President of the Geographical Association (2015-16). For many years he worked as an Initial Teacher Education Tutor at Northumbria University, UK
Summary
Overall Winner, SAGT (Scottish Association of Geography Teachers) Awards 2022
Winner, Global Dimension Teachers’ Choice Award 2023
Shortlisted, BERA Educational Research Book of the Year 2023
Highly Commended, GA (Geographical Association) Publisher’s Awards 2023
Sustainability Education: A Classroom Guide provides an accessible, in-depth guide and critique of sustainability education for school and university students, teachers, curriculum makers and school governors working around the world with children aged 3- to 14-years old. Informed by research findings and learning theory, it provides a progressive framework for sustainability education spanning all subject areas and applicable in a wide range of settings. There are over 180 age-related teaching ideas on topics such as conservation, health, food, wildlife, climate change, social justice and sustainable living, as well as provocative questions designed to stimulate educational debate. Written by two highly experienced UK-based educators, it draws together specially commissioned contributions from Australia, Israel, Norway, South Africa, the UK and the USA. Key concepts and links to the UN Global Goals (SDGs), are highlighted throughout. A companion website offers an extensive toolkit of specially prepared PowerPoint presentations and details of over 100 lectures, reports, picture books, websites and classroom and INSET teaching resources.
Foreword
Provides an accessible, in-depth guide to sustainability education for students, teachers and curriculum makers working with children aged 3-14 around the world.
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This excellent book should be essential reading for all primary, middle and preparatory school head teachers and policy makers, especially at the Department for Education... Society’s future is full of challenges for all educators but this first-class book provides plenty of ideas as to how we can be optimistic about the future.
