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Seminar Sessions
Each participant will attend two of the seminars.
Upon registration you are asked to select two of the seminars.
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Seminar a
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Early Childhood
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Children are competent, active agents in their own lives
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Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson, University of Gothenburg
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Seminar b
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The Global College
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Democracy and Global Issues in the classroom
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Lars Benon and Karolina Sandahl, The Global College together with some of their studentsThe Global College
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Seminar c
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Lifelong Learning Programme
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Intercultural meetings in EU Lifelong Learning Programme for Education
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Cristina Pontis,
International Programme Office
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Seminar d
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EU Key Competencies and Education for Sustainable Development
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How to combine the EU Key Competences with Education for Sustainable Development in steer documents for upper secondary school in Sweden
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Stefan Skimutis,
The Swedish National Agency for Education
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Seminar e
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The Global School and Athena in Practice
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To go from ideas to reality -
Two programmes for learning at the International Programme Office
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Petronella Odhner,
Josefin Peterson
International Programme Office
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Seminar f
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RCE Skåne - What’s in it for a university and a municipality?
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A tool for promoting ESD
What’s in it for a University and a city
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Tove Klette, City of Lund
Louise Rehn Winsborg,
City of Lund
Harriet Axelsson
Malmö University
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Seminar g
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Lund Calling
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Community based learning -
Bringing the World into the classroom
Lund Calling - A pilot project in Lund
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Torvald Jacobsson,
Birgitta Nordén
Lund University
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Seminar h
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Practical connections between UN Child Rights Convention and ESD
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How the empowerment of the learners could be supported via participation and real involvement in educational practice
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Per Wickenberg,
Lund University
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Seminar i
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Sustainable Development on a plate
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Using school lunches as a learning tool for ESD
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Gunilla Andersson
Trevor Graham
Sustainable Development Unit, Environment Dept, City of Malmö
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Seminar j
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Climate Change in Informal Learning
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Initiatives from Region Skåne
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Lotta Hedström
Chairman Regional Committee on Climate Change
Anders Nylander,
the Skåne Energy Agency
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Seminar a
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Children are competent, active agents in their own lives
Seminar leader
Professor Ingrid Pramling, University of Gothenburg
Julie Davis (2009) shows in a study of ESD in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC), that there are very few studies done in this field. According to Davis the findings can be split up into three categories:
1) Children’s relationship with nature (education in the environment),
2) Children’s understanding of environmental topics (education about the environment),
3) Young children as agents for change (education for the environment).
It is the third category, where learning for change is a key-factor, that will be in focus of the seminar. This means that we have to discuss the object of learning (what children should develop meaning about), as well as the act of learning (how learning is brought about in children).
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Seminar b
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Democracy and global issues in the classroom.
Seminar leaders:
Lars Benon and Karolina Sandahl, The Global College together with some of their students
Global College is an upper secondary school that is located Stockholm. Global college offer the social science programme with the choice of a global or an art profile and the natural science programme with a health and environmental profile. The programmes and their profiles differ somewhat in the range of subjects offered, but the teaching methods are the same, as well as the overall focus on children's rights, democracy, equality and promoting an understanding for our multicultural world.
The seminar will inform about how Global college has organized its education based on different aspects of education for sustainable development. Staff and students will give examples from the work with e.g pedagogical methods, subject integrated projects democracy, ecological footprints, co-operation with NGO;s and others outside school, , fieldstudies and the use of information technology.
We hope to inspire the participants to reflect upon how different aspects of education for sustainable can be put into practice and be a central part in educational systems.
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Seminar c
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Lifelong Learning Programme
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Intercultural meetings in Lifelong Learning Programme for Education
Seminar leader:
Cristina Pontis, International Programme Office, Sweden
The general objective of the Lifelong learning Programme (LLP) is to contribute through lifelong learning to the development of the European Union as an advanced knowledge-based society, with sustainable economic development, more and better jobs and greater social cohesion, while ensuring good protection of the environment for future generations. In particular, it aims to foster interchange, cooperation and mobility between education and training systems by offering an array of possibilities such as partnership, networks, and inserve-training. The seminar will focus on how Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) is addressed through different LLP actions. Schools and organisations involved, among others, in Comenius partnerships will present their work within area of ESD. Furthermore discussions on future cooperation projects and partnerships will facilitated among the workshops participants.
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Seminar d
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The EU Key Competencies and Education for Sustainable Development
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How to combine the EU Key Competences with Education for Sustainable Development in steer documents for upper secondary school in Sweden
Seminar leader
Stefan Skimutis, Director of education, The National Agency for Education in Sweden
The National Agency for Education in Sweden is during 2009 and 2010 working with reforms both for compulsory school and Upper Secondary School. The new steering documents for education in Sweden must handle competences and achievements from many different perspectives, for example the EU Key Competences and how these can be interlinked with education for sustainable development. This seminar presents how The National Agency for Education is incorporating these different perspectives into the new steering documents and how it will support teachers and school leaders to implement these.
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Seminar e
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The Global School and Athena in Practice
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To go from ideas to reality - Two programmes for learning at the International Programme Office (IPK)
Seminar facilitators:
Petronella Odhner Program officer The Global School/International Programme Office
Josefin Peterson Program officer Athena/International Programme Office
In the national curriculum for Swedish schools there is an obligation for schools to work with an international perspective in order to create international solidarity and prepare pupils for a society that willl have closer cross-cultural and crossborder contacts.
But sometimes it’s difficult as an actor to get going from good ideas to practical activities. Sweden makes a special effort to support schools who want to cooperate with developing countries. The seminar presents how IPK support these schools to get started, giving inspiring lectures, economical support for exchanges and in-service training in global education for sustainable development.
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Seminar f
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RCE Skåne - What’s in it for a university and a municipality?
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Why does a municipality and a university engage in the process of developing the vision of a
Regional Center of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development? What are the gains, lessons learned and how do we take the work one step further?
Seminar leaders:
Tove Klette, City of Lund
Louise Rehn Winsborg, City of Lund
Harriet Axelsson, Malmö University
The aim of the seminar is to discuss the process leading up to the formation of RCE Skåne. What difficulties and opportunities have we encountered when five different organizational cultures have met in the common goal: education and learning for sustainability?
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Seminar g
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Community based learning - Bringing the World into the classroom
Lund Calling - A pilot project in Lund
Seminar leaders:
Torvald Jacobsson,
Birgitta Nordén
Lund University
The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden has developed, and since 1999 successfully managed, the Young Masters Programme for Sustainable Development (YMP). The programme is a web-based, interactive distance-learning course, designed for students between 16-18 years of age, which focuses on issues related to sustainable development and preventive environmental strategies.
The education facilitates concrete sustainability skills and provides easy-to-understand information on the major sustainability challenges facing humanity. It has a true global outreach - students from 113 countries have participated in the programme.
In China, the YMP has been distributed in cooperation with the Centre for Environmental Education & Communication (CEEC) of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP). The YMP in China is also conducted in close co-operation with the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the Swedish Embassy in China. More than 5000 Chinese students has been educated within the YMP. IIIEE is now initiating a dynamic development and expansion phase of the programme in that will make it possible to educate up to 100 000 simultaneously by 2015.
“Lund Calling” is an another and on-going pilot YMP-project run by the IIIEE, Lund University and Lund Municipality with the aim to implement YMP in schools in Lund, using the programme as an aid for teachers in themes overarching multiple disciplines as well as in subjects concerning global interrelations.
But of equal importance is that the local schools and teachers are connected with international communities and networks to promote individual empowerment, interactive learning and thus to help illustrate sustainability issues from both a local and a global standpoint. The project is evaluated through pedagogical research by Learning Lund at Lund University, and some of the results from this research will be presented at the Conference.
During this Workshop you will learn how to use the YMP tool by hands-on experience and discussions with teachers and pedagogical researchers from Lund.
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Seminar h
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Practical connections between UN Child Rights Convention and ESD
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Seminar leader
Per Wickenberg, Sociology of Law, Lund University
The aim of this seminar is to strengthen awareness of the educational practice of and connections between CRC and ESD - i.e. how the empowerment of the learners could be supported via participation and real involvment in educational practice. Examples from developing countries and Sweden.
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Seminar i
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Sustainable Development on a Plate
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Using school lunches as a learning tool for Education for Sustainable Development
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Gunilla Andersson and Trevor Graham, Sustainable Development Unit, Environment Dept, City of Malmö
City of Malmö, in collaboration with Malmö University, is aiming for a holistic grip on sustainable development and education for sustainable development through focus on food consumption and food production. The main challenge is to show that a holistic approach on sustainable consumption and production will give a number of added values. The added values are needed to motivate extra costs and efforts as the City of Malmö is aiming for 100% organic food in the School Restaurants. The vision is to connect ESD in schools with sustainable development in practice, and to make sustainable development reality.
We will present four important examples how the City of Malmö works towards sustainable consumption and production of food, and education for sustainable development.
- The average level of organic food in the school meals in Malmö (35 000 lunches every day) is above 40%, whereas the national goal is 25%. At a pilot school, Djupadal School, with 400 pupils, the local kitchen is preparing and serving almost 100% organic food at lunch time every school day. At Djupadal School, the teachers, the children and the parents have all been involved in the process of changing to the new diet.
- The City of Malmö is developing in-service teacher training on food, climate and ESD. Courses are given by Malmö University. In March 2009 the two partners arranged a one-day conference on the same topic, with experts as keynote speakers in the morning and a number of inspiring workshops in the afternoon.
- The City of Malmö became in 2006 the first Fair Trade City in Sweden. The aim is to promote fair trade production and consumption in the city. Formal and informal learning are among the activities.
- Hästhagen is a day-care institution where the topic of food is very central in a lot of activities. Hästhagen has its own food policy which states that the food should be healthy, with no additives, no added sugar and organic. They have a great garden where they grow some of the food consumed and they also compost their waste. The growing, harvesting and cooking are natural parts of the children’s daily life.
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Seminar j
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Climate Change in Informal Learning
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Our Climate – as a Regional Challenge!
Seminar leaders:
Lotta Hedström, Chairman Regional Committee on Climate Change
Anders Nylander, the Skåne Energy Agency
The Region of Skåne has chosen a strategy where politicians from all parties, experts, societal functions and citizens meet in the common challenge to find ways to meet and minimize Climate Change.
The regional parliamentary committee has been working since September 2007 to collect, coordinate and propose new mitigation and adaptation strategies. From the more technical inventory phase there has been strong focus on cooperation and dialogue across with different stake holders within the region of Skåne and Öresund.
What have been the major challenges? Lessons learned? How can the regional perspective and organization be used to promote work towards a sustainable climate strategy?
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