Worry becomes hope in education for sustainable development

dc.creator	Lena Persson
dc.creator	Iann Lundegård
dc.creator	Per-Olof Wickman
dc.date	2011-01-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:27:28Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:27:28Z
dc.identifier	1102-6472
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/b0dd3657022d40bfaa16905ef42bffc0
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/21815
dc.description	Researchers in environmental education and education for sustainable development (ESD) have discussed in what ways young people’s experience in school may contribute to their action competence. This paper illustrates how an action research study centered on students’ reflections can contribute to a change in teaching that supports their action competence in education for sustainable development (ESD). The emphasis is on a pluralistic approach to ESD in which problems concerning sustainable development are considered as open-ended where students’ voices, action competence and decision-makingplay an important role. The researcher together with a teacher and her Year 9 class in a suburb of Stockholm carried out the action research study. The research corpus for the study was the students’ reflections in log books and interviews. Interviews were conducted with a smaller group of five students, and an interview was also made with the teacher at the end of the project to document her experiences. The case illustrates how students’ worries weremade salient through their reflections, which in turn made a change in teaching possible that transformed students’ worries into hope and supported their action competence. This way of working in the school practice may help teachers to think about ESD in new ways as well as in other areas of education.
dc.language	Swedish
dc.language	Danish
dc.language	Norwegian
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Örebro University
dc.relation	http://www.oru.se/Extern/Forskning/Forskningsmiljoer/HumUS/Utbildning_och_Demokrati/Tidskriften/2011/Worry%20becomes%20hope%20in%20education%20for%20sustainable%20development.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1102-6472
dc.source	Utbildning & Demokrati : Tidsskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik, Vol 20, Iss 1, Pp 123-144 (2011)
dc.subject	action research
dc.subject	reflection
dc.subject	action competence
dc.subject	pluralism
dc.subject	worry
dc.subject	hope
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.title	Worry becomes hope in education for sustainable development
dc.type	article