Whole School Approaches to Sustainability : Education Renewal in Times of Distress.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wals, Arjen E. J.
Other Authors: Bjønness, Birgitte., Sinnes, Astrid., Eikeland, Ingrid.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2024.
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.