ERIC Number: EJ1173031
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1350-4622
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Transdisciplinary Teaching for Sustainable Development in a Whole School Project
Environmental Education Research, v24 n5 p663-677 2018
The study investigates the transdisciplinary teaching of education for sustainable development (ESD) with a global dimension at an upper secondary school in Sweden. The purpose was to analyse and describe variations in how nine teachers in different subject matters experienced collaborative teaching in the context of a whole school educational development project. A total of 27 semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using phenomenographic method and contextual analysis. Two main approaches to transdisciplinary teaching were identified among the teachers: one where teachers contributed but struggled with transdisciplinarity, and the other where they displayed ownership and were able to reconceptualise the project as a whole. Overall, teachers worked in the project with deep-level processing for learning ESD in an integrated manner in the transdisciplinary framework. However, they also experienced tensions between their resources and capabilities, and the challenges they faced in the project.
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Interdisciplinary Approach, Secondary School Students, Semi Structured Interviews, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Teacher Attitudes, Environmental Education, Cognitive Processes, Teacher Collaboration, Qualitative Research
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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