ESD: Encouraging active and participatory learning
Education for Sustainable Development

ESD: Encouraging active and participatory learning

This course, which forms part of WWF's Education for a sustainable planet learning path, aims to help you further your understanding of sustainability and equip you with relevant information, tools, activities and good ideas from other skilled practitioners to make Education for Sustainable Development a cornerstone of your teaching practice.

What will you gain from the course?

  • An understanding of the skills and attributes required for students to play a part in shaping a sustainable future;
  • An understanding of the meaning and purpose of participation in education;
  • Tools and techniques for teaching in a participatory way Tools and techniques for promoting and supporting student leadership;
  • An understanding of the bicycle model of climate change education; and
  • Techniques for using roleplay as a classroom technique for considering future scenarios.
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Course content

    • Module 1: Skills for a more sustainable world
    • MD1: Reflective Task
    • Module 2: What does true participation mean?
    • MD2: Reflective Task
    • Module 3: An approach to teaching and learning
    • MD3: Reflective Task
    • Module 4: Opportunities for young people to lead
    • Module 5: A model for climate change education
    • MD5: Reflective Task
    • Module 6: Looking at future scenarios through role play
    • Additional resources
    • Test