- Title
- Place and sustainability literacy in schools and teacher education
- Creator
- Somerville, Margaret; Green, Monica
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/75372
- Identifier
- vital:7343
- Identifier
- https://www.aare.edu.au/data/publications/2012/Somerville12.pdf
- Identifier
- ISBN:1324-9320
- Abstract
- The development of sustainability literate teachers has been identified as a key challenge for the implementation of education for sustainability in Australian schools (Skamp, 2010)and elsewhere (Nolet, 2009). This paper reports on the first year of a participatory action research project that investigates the learning of school teachers, teacher educators, school children and teacher education students, in relation to the integration of place-based sustainability education across the curriculum of a low SES primary school. The methods of data collection included digital visual and audio recorded observations and reflections by teacher educators; reflective observations, focus groups, and interviews with teachers and principals; and the collection of student artefacts from school and teacher education students. A number of different conceptual and theoretical lenses are brought to the analysis of this data including 'thinking through country'; sustainability literacies and new technologies; and contemporary theories of space, place and body. In this baseline paper, the overall findings are summarised under the categories of the participating groups: - teacher, teacher educator, school student, teacher education student, and the school/place/community nexus.
- Publisher
- Australian Association for Research in Education
- Relation
- The Joint Australian Association for Research in Education and Asia-Pacific Educational Research Association Conference p. 1-14
- Rights
- Open access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 0502 Environmental Science and Management; 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Education for sustainability; Place-based education; Curriculum and pedagogy; Low SES primary schools
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