Whole School Approaches to Sustainability : Education Renewal in Times of Distress.
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing AG,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Sustainable Development Goals Series
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Contributors
- Editors
- 1: It Takes a Whole School: An Introduction
- References
- Part 1: Principles, Perspectives, and Challenges
- 2: A Whole School Approach: A Synthesis of Interconnected Policy, Practice, and Research Conceptualisations
- 2.1 Introduction: Educational Change, Innovation, and School Reform in Times of Global Sustainability Challenges
- 2.2 Methods, Scope, Aims, and Objectives
- 2.3 A Synthesis of Whole School Approach Conceptualisations Within Distinct But Connected Education Initiatives
- 2.3.1 Thematic Structure of the WSA Conceptualisation Synthesis
- 2.3.2 Education for Sustainable Development and a Whole School Approach
- 2.3.3 Education for Health and Well-Being and a Whole School Approach
- 2.3.4 Whole School Approaches to Global Citizenship Education and a Whole School Approach
- 2.4 Discussion: What are the Main Principles, Processes, and Strands of a Whole School Approach in and Beyond Education for Sustainable Development?
- 2.4.1 Holistic, Systemic, and Sustainable Perspective
- 2.4.2 Democratic and Participatory Processes Involving All Actors
- 2.4.3 Five Strands of a Whole School Approach to General Quality Education
- 2.4.4 Tensions, Problematics, and Dilemmas
- 2.4.5 The Role of Reflexivity
- 2.5 Conclusions
- References
- 3: Insights, Challenges, and Prospects on Whole School Approach to Sustainability in the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) Region
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.1.1 Defining the Whole School Approach
- 3.1.2 Whole School Approach in the UNECE Region
- 3.2 Methodology
- 3.3 Results
- 3.3.1 WSA and Curriculum: What Do We Teach?
- 3.3.2 WSA and Pedagogy/Didactics: How Do We Learn?
- 3.3.3 WSA and Building Management/Operations: Where Do We Learn?.
- 3.3.4 WSA and Professional Development: Whom Do We Learn From?
- 3.3.5 WSA and School Environment: Whom Do We Learn With?
- 3.4 Discussion
- 3.4.1 What Do We Learn? (Curricula)
- 3.4.2 Whom Do We Learn From? (Professional Development)
- 3.4.3 How Do We Learn? (Pedagogy/Didactics)
- 3.4.4 Where Do We Learn? (Building Management/Operations)
- 3.4.5 Whom Do We Learn With? (School Environment)
- 3.5 Ways Forward
- References
- 4: How to Institutionalize a Whole School Approach to ESD
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 What Is a Whole School Approach?
- 4.3 Aligning Inner School Organization with Authentic Sustainability Problems
- 4.4 Capacity Building as a Tool to Conceptualize Implementation of WSA to ESD
- 4.5 A School Improvement Process Leading to Establishing WSA to ESD
- 4.5.1 Initiation
- 4.5.2 Implementation
- 4.5.3 Institutionalization
- 4.6 Concluding Remarks
- References
- 5: Getting to a Whole School Approach: Lessons From School Effectiveness and School Improvement in ESD Research
- 5.1 Introduction and Questions to Answer
- 5.2 The School Organization
- 5.3 Use and Potential of School Effectiveness Studies in ESD
- 5.4 Use and Potential of School Improvement Studies in ESD
- 5.5 Combining School Effectiveness and School Improvement Toward a WSA
- 5.6 How We See School Effectiveness and School Improvement Anchored in ESD Research
- References
- 6: Dimensions and Conditions of the Development of a Sense of Empowerment in a Whole School Approach
- 6.1 Youth Voices About Their Sense of Empowerment
- 6.2 Epistemologies and Approaches in Climate Change Education for Empowerment
- 6.3 Clarification of Concepts Pertaining to Empowerment in Climate Change Education
- 6.3.1 The Capability Approach
- 6.3.2 Concepts Related to the Sense of Empowerment
- 6.4 Methodology.
- 6.5 Dimensions of the Sense of Empowerment and Links with the WSA
- 6.5.1 Vision, Ethos, Leadership, and Coordination
- 6.5.2 Curriculum
- 6.5.3 Pedagogy and Learning
- 6.5.4 Institutional Practices and Bureaucracy
- 6.5.5 Valuing Community and Intergenerational Connections
- 6.5.6 Capacity Building and Continued Professional Development of All School Staff
- 6.6 Three Main Findings for Empowering Youth in the Face of Climate Change
- 6.7 Conclusion
- References
- 7: Accelerating Change-Making: Reflections on Embedding Regenerative Practices in School Climate Action
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.1.1 Why Whole School Approaches to Climate Action Are Needed
- 7.1.2 Climate Action Accelerator Program: A Whole School Approach
- 7.2 Three Schools' Journeys Toward Whole School Climate Action
- 7.2.1 Southridge School
- 7.2.2 Hillfield Strathallan College
- 7.2.2.1 A Not-So-Novel Idea…
- 7.2.2.2 Meet the Learning Landscape
- 7.2.2.3 Setting the Course
- 7.2.2.4 Wayfinding Led by Students
- 7.2.2.5 Compelling Vision
- 7.2.2.6 Organizational Culture
- 7.2.2.7 Collective Learning
- 7.2.2.8 Physical Space
- 7.2.3 Trinity College School
- 7.3 Discussion
- 7.3.1 Commonalities
- 7.3.1.1 Regenerative Practice as Paradigm Shift
- 7.3.1.2 Leadership and Organizational Culture
- 7.3.2 Challenges
- 7.4 Conclusion
- References
- 8: How can a Whole School Approach to Sustainability be Inclusive to All Learners?
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Inclusion-Oriented ESD
- 8.3 Whole School Approach to Inclusion-Oriented ESD
- 8.4 Research Design
- 8.5 Results
- 8.5.1 Understanding of Inclusion-Oriented ESD in Schools
- 8.5.1.1 All Means All
- 8.5.1.2 Participation
- 8.5.1.3 Contextualizing
- 8.5.2 Success Factors and Challenges for Inclusion-Oriented ESD
- 8.5.2.1 Resources
- 8.5.2.2 Workload.
- 8.5.2.3 Education System
- 8.5.2.4 Education and Training: Teaching Competences
- 8.5.2.5 Whole School Approach as a Driver
- 8.5.2.6 Participation and Self-Efficacy
- 8.5.2.7 Attitude
- 8.5.3 WSA for Inclusion-Oriented ESD
- 8.5.3.1 Whole School in Community Approach
- 8.5.3.2 Structural Level
- 8.5.3.3 Participation and Self-Efficacy
- 8.6 Discussion and Conclusion
- References
- 9: The Whole-School Alignment Model: Facilitating a Teacher Team in Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.1.1 Tensions and Liminal Spaces in Transformative Entrepreneurship Education
- 9.1.2 Attunement and Alignment in Whole-School Transformative Processes
- 9.1.3 Context of the Study
- 9.1.4 Methods and Materials
- 9.1.5 The Whole-School Alignment Model (WSAM)
- 9.2 The Teacher Team Finding Their Pathways
- 9.2.1 The Structural Alignment Process: 'You Need to Start Somewhere'
- 9.2.2 The Process of Clarifying the Aim and Ways of Assessing: 'We See a Goal on the Horizon'
- 9.2.3 Reversing the Teacher and Student Roles: 'How Much should I Meddle?'
- 9.2.4 Renewing Identity: The Whole-School Transformation Process
- 9.3 Narrow Passages and Recurring Motifs
- 9.3.1 Narrow Passages Through Liminal Space
- 9.3.2 Recurring Motifs: Shared Ownership to Shared Questions
- 9.3.3 Reviewing the Model: 'These Arrows Should Perhaps Be Bent'
- 9.4 Conclusion and Implications: Facilitating Transformative Agency
- References
- 10: Architecture as Educator for Sustainable Grown-Upness: An ESD Performance Framework for School Habitats
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.1.1 School Habitats and Sustainability
- 10.1.2 Whole School Approach to ESD
- 10.1.3 Research Goal and Structure of the Chapter
- 10.2 Research Methodology
- 10.2.1 The Case Study
- 10.2.2 The Inductive Process
- 10.3 Vision on ESD.
- 10.3.1 The Hidden Curriculum of School Habitats
- 10.3.2 Education and Sustainable Development
- 10.3.3 Cultivation, Subjectification and Sustainable Grown-Upness
- 10.3.4 Relevancy for This Chapter
- 10.4 The Performance Concept for Building
- 10.4.1 An Exploration of Supplies: School Habitats
- 10.4.2 An Exploration of Performance: Habitats as Educators
- 10.4.3 An Exploration of Demands: Subjectification
- 10.5 The ESD Performance Framework for School Habitats
- 10.5.1 Engage the Heart
- 10.5.1.1 Direct Attention to Nature
- 10.5.1.2 Direct Attention to People
- 10.5.1.3 Direct Attention to Place
- 10.5.2 Exemplify to the Head
- 10.5.3 Enable the Hands
- 10.5.3.1 Educational?
- 10.5.3.2 Self-Limitation and Self-Activation
- 10.6 Discussion and Conclusions
- 10.6.1 A Whole School Approach and Teacher Literacy
- 10.6.2 A Moral Agenda in Education?
- 10.6.3 Conclusions
- References
- 11: Developing a Whole (Pre)school Approach to Sustainability: Insights from Global Citizenship and Early Childhood Education Across Nordic Countries
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Global Citizenship in Early Childhood Education and a Whole School Approach to Sustainability
- 11.3 Linking a Whole School Approach to Sustainability with Early Childhood Education Research
- 11.4 Wholeness in Preschool Education
- 11.4.1 Greening of the Whole Preschool
- 11.4.2 The Whole Child's Learning
- 11.4.3 Wholeness in Preschool Teaching
- 11.4.4 Thematic Approach as a Perspective on a Whole Preschool
- 11.5 Lessons Learned from Global Citizenship to a Whole School Approach to Sustainability
- References
- Part 2: Practices
- 12: Activating the Petals in the 'WSA Flower Model': Critical Factors for Sustaining Schools' Pathways Towards a Whole-School Approach
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Background.
- 12.3 About the University-School Partnership.


