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Developing ESD-Specific Professional Action Competence for Teachers: Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes in Implementing ESD at the School Level
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Brandt, Jan-Ole; Barth, Matthias; Hale, Annie; Merritt, Eileen – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Equipping future change agents with the competencies to lead the societal transformation towards sustainability requires competent and committed teachers who effectively implement Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) across the education system. In a comparative case study, this paper investigates how individual ESD courses in teacher…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Sustainability, Teacher Competencies, Teacher Education Programs
Teacher Education for Sustainable Development: A Review of an Emerging Research Field
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Fischer, Daniel; King, Jordan; Rieckmann, Marco; Barth, Matthias; Büssing, Alexander; Hemmer, Ingrid; Lindau-Bank, Detlev – Journal of Teacher Education, 2022
Teacher Education for Sustainable Development (TESD) is a niche innovation in teacher education that empowers teachers to prepare learners to address global socio-environmental challenges. To advance the diffusion of this niche innovation into general teacher education, this article offers a systematic literature review based on a qualitative…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Sustainable Development, Educational Research, Classification
A Whole-Institution Approach towards Sustainability: A Crucial Aspect of Higher Education's Individual and Collective Engagement with the SDGs and Beyond
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Kohl, Katrin; Hopkins, Charles; Barth, Matthias; Michelsen, Gerd; Dlouhá, Jana; Razak, Dzulkifli Abdul; Abidin Bin Sanusi, Zainal; Toman, Isabel – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: Higher education and its leadership are not yet using their potential impact for a sustainable future. This paper aims to focus on UN developments and the long history of university involvement in sustainability might create more interest and understanding that sustainably oriented universities are actually possible and a much stronger…
Descriptors: Sustainable Development, Higher Education, Institutional Advancement, Educational History
Drivers and Barriers of Implementing Sustainability Curricula in Higher Education -- Assumptions and Evidence
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Weiss, Marie; Barth, Matthias; Wiek, Arnim; von Wehrden, Henrik – Higher Education Studies, 2021
Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) depends, in part, on the sustainability competencies of professionals in various fields, and thus, on the implementation of sustainability curricula in higher education. While many universities now offer sustainability curricula, and many more aspire to, there is a lack of evidence on what…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Sustainable Development, Curriculum Implementation, Barriers
Meaning-Making in Higher Education for Sustainable Development: Undergraduates' Long-Term Processes of Experiencing and Learning
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Sundermann, Anna; Weiser, Annika; Barth, Matthias – Environmental Education Research, 2022
Despite the increase in teaching approaches designed to integrate sustainability into higher education, the connection between students' learning experiences and their learning outcomes remains incompletely understood. The present multi-case study complements the discussion by investigating undergraduates' long-term meaning-making processes using…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Sustainable Development, Learning Experience, Outcomes of Education
Learning Processes for Interpersonal Competence Development in Project-Based Sustainability Courses -- Insights from a Comparative International Study
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Konrad, Theres; Wiek, Arnim; Barth, Matthias – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2021
Purpose: For professional sustainability work, graduates need to be able to work in teams and collaborate with stakeholders; in other words, they need to have developed interpersonal competence. There is growing evidence that project-based sustainability courses facilitate interpersonal competence development. However, research so far has focused…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Interpersonal Competence, Skill Development, Knowledge Level