14/03/2025

Norden

Lifelong learning, Motivation, Adult education

New one-pager on how to become a teacher that promotes sustainability within adult education

Are you working with education for sustainable development or wish to do so? Do you have doubts or troubles with how to (better) teach and create transformative education for sustainability? This one-pager gathers reflections and advice from six Nordic educational organisations with experience in the field.

To kvinder står i en skovlysning og snakker, mens de holder kopper. Solen skinner gennem træerne, og i baggrunden ses flere personer, herunder et barn og en mand i sort tøj.

New one-pager on how to become a teacher that promotes sustainability within adult education

From 2022 to 2024, NLL has coordinated a pilot project “Development of Educational Models for Sustainable Lifestyles” within the Nordic Council of Ministers programme for sustainable lifestyles.

Within this project, six different Nordic institutions have shared and explored pedagogical approaches, dilemmas, barriers and potentials as well as the organisational prerequisites for creating true transformative education for sustainability.

In the first part of the project, 11 recommendations for practitioners were formulated.

The second part resulted in five videos with the participants’ advice for school leaders, a policy brief for the Nordic Council of Ministers and this one-pager with recommendations for teachers and practitioners.

It is recommended to use the one-pager as a supplementary part of the total body of products.

The suggestions in this one-pager follow the recommendations formulated in the policy brief, aiming to promote a paradigm shift towards emphasising diversity, pedagogical freedom and Bildung within adult education in the Nordic countries. But how do we do this as practitioners? How do we develop a personal take on sustainability, both personally and professionally? How do we meet the pedagogical challenges that the sustainability agenda evokes? And how do we find or create a supportive tribe that helps us conduct transformative sustainability education?

Read the one-pager here

Read more about the project and it’s other results and resources here.

Få NLL’s nyhedsbrev

Med NLLs nyhedsbrev får du: Nyeste viden fra NLL som fx policy briefs og rapporter, vigtige nyheder fra de nordiske lande, aktuelle artikler, der går i dybden med feltet på tværs af sektorer, temaer og geografi samt overblik over kommende konferencer, seminarer og events.

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