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Education for Sustainable Development in Teacher Training Through Multinational Cooperation: Goals, Opportunities, and Challenges

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Global challenges such as climate change or water scarcity require specific educational concepts (Fensham, 2012) and skills such as systemic and complex thinking, understanding issues of scale. These competences are part of theis Educational for Sustainable Development (ESD) (Leicht, Heiss, & Byun, 2018), within the context “Water” is an central issue. Training teachers in ESD is a major challenge for professionalization but the pandemic put a stop to the field trips that were essential to this learning. That is a challenge taken up by an international project made between Universitat Hamburg (Germany), University Paris City (France) and Oranim College of education (Israel). International virtual academic collaboration enabled this project using different long-distance communications options. Due to current pandemic state different digital teaching opportunities were used. The main goal of the project was to enable students to have experiential and meaningful distance learning to implement ESD in teacher training seminars in geography (Sprenger & Nienaber, 2017). Another target was to use the chances and challenges of interculturality to develop learning approaches of virtual, collaborative didactics while experiencing with the goals of Educational Sustainable Development. Questions were asked following this learning: What is the added value of intercultural encounters in a geography education courses? What are the benefits this project makes for the in-service and pre-service teacher professional development? What is the added value of intercultural encounters be integrated into the profession in the future? Students were asked to teach and learn from each other about the current state of water in their countries, its challenges, and existing solutions. Students were asked to choose and explore a specific water topic in this field (e.g. floods), they asked questions and found possible courses of action. During the seminar the students developed virtual teaching conceptions for geography lessons (ArcGIS Story-Maps) regarding sustainable development and water. Ten mixed groups of students presented the research to the multinational class. The impact of the project was analyzed from the analysis of the Storymaps produced by the students as well as the student diaries filled in during the project (France, Israel).The feedback for many of the students show, that it was an extraordinary opportunity to meet, get to know and work together. It allowed them to discover the issue of water from different perspectives. Language challenge, culture differences and online learning difficulties were an integral part of this project and its challenge. Although many obstacles occurred, we believe this project enable students to use the skills they acquired in their work as future teachers. The presentation will outline the conceptual basis and results of the seminar.
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hal-04267020 , version 1 (01-11-2023)

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Aikaterini Klonari, Maria Luisa de Lázaro y Torres, Athanasios Kizos, Tal Yaar, Sprenger Sandra, et al.. Education for Sustainable Development in Teacher Training Through Multinational Cooperation: Goals, Opportunities, and Challenges. Revisioning Geography, Springer International Publishing; Springer, 2023, Key Challenges in Geography, 978-3-031-40746-8. ⟨10.1007/978-3-031-40747-5⟩. ⟨hal-04267020⟩
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