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ESD, Gotland University, SWEDESD What are the possibilities, competencies and responsibilities of teachers? by Frans Lenglet (SWEDESD) Training in ESD through an Inter-regional Perspective – the Baltic Sea and Mediterranean Regions, Uppsala, 8 October 2008 SWEDESD – Strategies and Activities Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development Visby, 3 – 4 October 2008 SWEDESD • Meeting place: physically & virtually • Exchange, learning, research, debate, advocacy • Strengthening capacity of institutions, organizations and persons in Global South • Scrutinizing existing paradigms • Exploring power of non-traditional teaching and learning methods • Gotland and Baltic as ”laboratory” What are we talking about? International Policy Environment INTERNATIONAL ‘92 Earth Summit, ‘97 Kyoto Protocol, UN Climate Change Conference ‘07 in Bali, ‘08 in Bangkok The Global Challenge Sub Heading 50% Global CO2 emissions reduction by 2050 80% CO2 emissions reduction for developed countries Fresh Water Availability “People will feel the IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE most strongly through changes in the distribution of WATER around the world” Stern Review Food Supply Declining CROP YIELDS are likely to leave HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS without the ability to produce or purchase sufficient FOOD Food Supply Temperature increases will impact FISH STOCKS globally Food Supply 850 MILLION PEOPLE, mostly women and children, remain CHRONICALLY HUNGRY, while 1.1 billion are obese or overweight Food Supply “The world’s most vulnerable who spend 60% OF THEIR INCOME ON FOOD have been priced out of the food market” Josette Sheeran, Head of UN WFP Global Health Climate change will contribute to the GLOBAL DISEASE BURDEN through increases in diarrohea, vector-borne disease and MALNUTRITION Centre on Global Change and Health Global Health DISEASE VECTORS are closely linked to temperature and rainfall... and very sensitive to CHANGES IN CLIMATE Rising Sea Levels More than 200M PEOPLE live in COASTAL FLOOD PLAINS Rising Sea Levels With warming of 3-4°C rising sea levels will result in 10’s TO 100’s MILLIONS more people FLOODED each year Growing Global Population Our Shrinking Earth 1900 7.91 1950 5.15 1987 2.60 2005 2.02 2030 1.69 2050 1.63 Year Hectares of land per capita http://www.unep.org/geo/geo4/report/GEO-4_Report_Full_en.pdf © Craig Mayhew and Robert Simmon, NASA GSFC Global Demand for Energy Global Demand for Energy Biofuels – The Ultimate Green Fuel? “It takes the same amount of grain to fill an SUV with ethanol as it does to feed a person” Barbara Stocking, Oxfam Urban Growth Greater numbers of PEOPLE are moving in to RESOURCE INEFFICIENT CITIES Urban Growth ‘Urbanisation of poverty’ as slum population is forecasted to double to 2 BILLION by 2030 STERN REVIEW (2006): ”The costs of stabilizing the climate are significant but manageable; delay would be a danger and much more costly.” ALBERT EINSTEIN: ”The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking” Possibilities, Competencies and Responsibilities of Teachers Possibilities • Windows of opportunities • The immediate place and space of students, • • • • • their parents, their communities (also online) Observation Data collection Analysis and synthesis Reflection (Transformative) action Competencies • • • • • • • • • • Grounding in natural and social schiences Active interest in current events and politics Ability to formulate hypotheses and use theories Ability to place facts and events in their historical framework Interest in people and their concerns Empathy Interdisciplinarity Creativity Being able to think out of the box Facilitation skills Responsibilities • From socialization to emancipation • From teaching to learning • From being prophets of doom to messengers of • • • hope From footprints of destruction to handprints of creation From knowledge transmission to knowledge creation From local, via glocal, to global and back ”If you think education is expensive, try ignorance” Thank You! Swedish International Centre of Education for Sustainable Development SWEDESD/Gotland University SE - 621 67 Visby E-mail: [email protected]