Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual Tensions
Teaching sustainability topics puts teachers in a tense relationship: on one hand, they should convey the importance and urgency of the topic, but at the same time, this should be done in such a way that students can form their own judgements. In addition, teachers may themselves become privately in...
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| author | Holfelder Anne-Katrin |
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| description | Teaching sustainability topics puts teachers in a tense relationship: on one hand, they should convey the importance and urgency of the topic, but at the same time, this should be done in such a way that students can form their own judgements. In addition, teachers may themselves become privately involved and interested in the topic, which requires a professional understanding of their role. This concern was pursued in the present study. Teachers who teach sustainability topics were interviewed in semi-structured interviews. This article presents the results by means of case studies that show three contrasting cases. There are two ways of avoiding the tensions and one that takes the tension as an inherent part of the topic. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-73c27b33d23747cbb1d7ee760f9ad3392022-12-22T02:38:11ZengSciendoDiscourse and Communication for Sustainable Education2255-75472022-06-01131778710.2478/dcse-2022-0007Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual TensionsHolfelder Anne-Katrin0Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, GermanyTeaching sustainability topics puts teachers in a tense relationship: on one hand, they should convey the importance and urgency of the topic, but at the same time, this should be done in such a way that students can form their own judgements. In addition, teachers may themselves become privately involved and interested in the topic, which requires a professional understanding of their role. This concern was pursued in the present study. Teachers who teach sustainability topics were interviewed in semi-structured interviews. This article presents the results by means of case studies that show three contrasting cases. There are two ways of avoiding the tensions and one that takes the tension as an inherent part of the topic.https://doi.org/10.2478/dcse-2022-0007education for sustainable developmentteacher professionalizationstudent evaluation |
| spellingShingle | Holfelder Anne-Katrin Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual Tensions Discourse and Communication for Sustainable Education education for sustainable development teacher professionalization student evaluation |
| title | Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual Tensions |
| title_full | Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual Tensions |
| title_fullStr | Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual Tensions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual Tensions |
| title_short | Teaching Sustainability: A Study of Teachers and Conceptual Tensions |
| title_sort | teaching sustainability a study of teachers and conceptual tensions |
| topic | education for sustainable development teacher professionalization student evaluation |
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