Teaching sustainability for primary school

Cavadas, Bento; Branco, Neusa; Colaço, Susana; Linhares, Elisabete

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The increasing concern on sustainability and sustainability education led to the development of the European sustainability competence framework (GreenComp). One aim of GreenComp is to promote sustainability education for the European citizens, developing their competencies and expecting they mobilize it in different contexts. This competence development is relevant for in-service teachers, future teachers or other higher education students that are coursing degrees related to environmental education. These key players in education have an important role in the teaching of young people and in the development of skills, attitudes, and values, which are necessary to deal with sustainability and the problems that harm it. Considering sustainability and environmental education as key issues for the professional development of educators, this poster aims to contribute to the goals of the conference theme “Perspectives and practices in teacher professional development”. The purpose of this poster is to present part of the work developed by ERASMUS Teacher Academy Project – Teaching Sustainability (TAP-TS), focusing teaching sustainability for primary schools and how this pedagogical approach was mobilized with in-service teachers and future teachers. The TAP-TS project aims to engage teachers, future teachers, and teacher educators to co-create professional learning communities, experiences, and materials, which reflect sustainability topics, values, and perspectives and research-based insights around teacher professional learning and education for sustainability. The work presented in this poster crossed one academic year and followed a qualitative research design, producing knowledge about the dynamics of collaboration of educators in the piloting of sustainability resources focused on primary schools. The process used and some of its results and resources produced are going to be described. The resources produced under the TAP-TS project for teaching sustainability and its focus on global sustainability education are, therefore, relevant to the goals of the ATEE winter conference.