scholarly journals Students’ Views about the Inclusion of Environmental Education and Education for Sustainability in Teacher Education Courses

2015 ◽  
Vol 08 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
C.P. Loubser
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Education Courses

scholarly journals Walking the Walk: Democratizing Change in Teacher Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Beasy ◽  
Mary Ann Hunter ◽  
David Hicks ◽  
Darren Pullen ◽  
Peter Brett ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Teacher Educators ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Agents Of Change ◽  
Trauma Informed ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Trauma Informed Practice ◽  
Cultural Justice ◽  
Education Transformation ◽  
Education Courses

In this essay, as a group of teacher educators, we discuss our experience of “walking the walk” of teacher education transformation at a time of urgent change. We reflect upon our process of integrating three key priorities in our preservice teacher education courses: education for sustainability; trauma-informed practice; and Indigenizing curriculum. Specifically, we reflect on how these processes were adapted according to the needs of individual courses and units, while at the same time making space for our strengths and our “unlearnings” as academics, and for the ethical considerations that troubled us. In this essay, we explore walking the walk of change and integrating social, environmental, and cultural justice principles in our work together toward equipping and enabling new teachers to be themselves agents of change.

scholarly journals Reggio Emilia Inspired Philosophical Teacher Education in the Anthropocene: Posthuman Child and the Family (Tree)

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Murris ◽  
Rose-Anne Reynolds ◽  
Joanne Peers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Teacher Education ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Reggio Emilia ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Pedagogical Documentation ◽  
The Family ◽  
Ontological Shift ◽  
Education Courses

In this paper, we give a flavour of how, against the odds, Reggio-Emilia-inspired pedagogical documentation can work in reconceptualizing environmental education, reconfiguring child subjectivity and provoking an ontological shift from autopoiesis to sympoiesis in teacher education. Working posthuman(e)ly and transdisciplinarily across three foundation phase teacher education courses at a university in South Africa, we situate our teaching within current environmental precarities. We show how we stirred up trouble in and outside our university classroom and provoked our students to “make kin” with children, each other, other animals, and the more-than-human, but also to stay with the trouble, that is, to learn to be truly present in colonized spaces.

scholarly journals Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers’ Preparedness to Teach Education for Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-96
Author(s):  
Anita Croft
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Early Childhood ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Early Childhood Teachers ◽  
Education For Sustainability ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Sustainability Practices ◽  
Preparedness To Teach

The benefits of beginning Education for Sustainability (EfS) in early childhood are now widely documented. With the support of their teachers, young children have shown that through engagement in sustainability practices they are capable of becoming active citizens in their communities (Duhn, Bachmann, & Harris, 2010; Kelly & White, 2012; Ritchie, 2010; Vaealiki & Mackey, 2008). Engagement with EfS has not been widespread across the early childhood sector in Aotearoa New Zealand (Duhn et al., 2010; Vaealiki & Mackey, 2008) until recently. One way of addressing EfS in early childhood education is through teacher education institutions preparing students to teach EfS when they graduate.

Overseas: Native Studies at the University of Saskatchewan

1984 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 59-60
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Education Program ◽  
Teacher Education Program ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Native Studies ◽  
Aboriginal Students ◽  
Exchange Material ◽  
The University ◽  
Indian Students ◽  
Education Courses

We recently received exchange material from The Saskatchewan Urban Native Teacher Education Program (SUNTEP) at Saskatoon, Canada. A brief description of the program might be of interest to those readers involved in adult and teacher education courses for Aboriginal students.SUNTEP is a four-year off campus Teacher Education Program offered through the Gabriel Dumont Institute of Native Studies and Applied Research in co-operation with the Department of Education and the University of Saskatchewan and Regina. It is an enriched program leading to a B.Ed, degree, designed specifically for Metis and Non-Status Indian students who might not otherwise attend university. The program has a number of unique aspects including -

scholarly journals Reflecting From the Margins of Education Faculties: Refiguring the Humanist, and Finding a Space for Story in History

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodore Michael Christou
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
John Dewey ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Educational History ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Educational Foundations ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pre Service Teacher Education ◽  
Pre Service Teacher ◽  
Education Courses

Notwithstanding their traditional characterization as a foundations subject, history of education courses are marginal in pre-service teacher education. This marginalization is framed here in light of a broader concern for the discipline’s turn away from the humanities.  History of education’s fundamental purpose, it is argued, lies in the exploration of what it means to be human, and how education has historically been shaped by our values, authority, contexts, and norms.  Using stories drawn from literature and memoirs in the teaching of educational history is one means of exploring intersections of education with human cultures and societies across historical contexts.  History is etymologically linked with story telling, and both history and literature share narrative features; the two should not be conflated, however, due to distinctive disciplinary features of history, such as the requirement that any claims to truth require what John Dewey referred to as warranted assertability.Keywords: history of education, teacher education,educational foundations, humanities, literature, historical mindedness, John Dewey.

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