Education for Sustainable Development Within Initial Training of Teachers in the UK

Doug Bourn; Nese Soysal

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-27807-5_5

Education for Sustainable Development Within Initial Training of Teachers in the UK

Doug Bourn
, Nese Soysal

Department of Education

University College London

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Abstract

The theme of sustainability has become one of increasing importance within the initial training of teachers in many countries around the world. However, despite promotion of this area by bodies such as UNESCO, the extent to which sustainability has become embedded within courses and programmes has been heavily influenced by national education priorities.

Summarizing ESD integration in international policies and research, this chapter reviews the opportunities and constraints for promoting sustainability within the example university’s teacher training courses. It further summarizes the strategies the university develops to address the challenges to bring sustainability themes across a range of courses.

A feature of the chapter is the extent to which sustainability is seen as merely inclusion of content into courses, an inter-disciplinary approach or a distinctive pedagogy approach related to transformative learning and social change.

The chapter concludes by making some reflections on what this evidence tells us about the challenges for including sustainability themes within programmes and indicates what can be done more to promote sustainability themes within teacher education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Sustainable Practices in Higher Education
Subtitle of host publication	Finance, Strategy and Engagement
Editors	Thomas Walker, Khaled Tarabieh, Sherif Goubran, Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Chapter	2
Pages	73-91
Number of pages	19
Volume	1
Edition	1
ISBN (Electronic)	‎9783031278062, ‎
ISBN (Print)	9783031278068
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27807-5_5
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2023

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education

Keywords

ESD
transformative learning
Teacher education curriculum

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Social Sciences
Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)

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Education for Sustainable Development Within Initial Training of Teachers in the UK. / Bourn, Doug; Soysal, Nese.
Sustainable Practices in Higher Education: Finance, Strategy and Engagement. ed. / Thomas Walker; Khaled Tarabieh; Sherif Goubran; Gabrielle Machnik-Kekesi. Vol. 1 1. ed. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2023. p. 73-91 1.

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