2. What do we mean by Development?
What is sustainability?
How do we work these concepts in the classroom?
What kind of concepts should I
be familiar with?
How can I have a coerent approach
throughout the project?
How do we engage students in these topics?
3. But we are sure that:
We want to change attitudes and
behaviours;
We have to be concrete in our
approach;
These topics should be worked in a
transversal and cross curricular way;
TEACHERS ARE KEY PLAYERS
IN PROMOTING CHANGE and
we should act as multipliers!
There should be an active involvement
of parents, other school workers;
4. In our national context we will have
to face some CHALLENGES:
• Reality differs a lot from school to school;
• Formal recognitition of attitudional change is
not the same as the one existing to recognise
knowledge acquisition;
• Educative System is not ready to work on
sustainability
This is why it makes sense for us to work
on this Project!
5. In practice:
• In MATHS, we can work several sustainable
development topics and teach statistics at the same
time;
• In ARTS (Visual in Education), the use of images can be a
triger to raise the debate among students and promote
critical thinking;
• In LANGUAGES (English, French, Portuguese, etc.) by for
example debating “Which commodities are produced
where and by whom, and who consumes them?”we can
teach countries, nationalities, study adjective degrees,
etc.;
• In GEOGRAPHY when studying the Millenium
Development Goals (MDGs) we can show what was
effectively achieved and how did citizens contributed to
these achievements and make the link to sustainable
developments;
6. In practice:
• In SCIENCE and BIOLOGY, when talking about
Sustainability we can also highlight the social and
economic dimensions and show concrete examples of
behaviours that should be adopted;
• SPECIAL EDUCATION students have a lot of potential
and they engagement in this topics can inspire the
entire school community;
• We can value student’s involvement at the school
level and create a yearly PRIZE to publicly recognize
their actions during the school year.
7. "The journey of a thousand miles
begins with one step."
Lao Tzu
EAThink 2015 is our first step!
MUITO OBRIGADA!
Thank you very much!
