Teaching Materials for ESD

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This library of open educational resources serves as a digital repository where educators can freely access, share, and adapt high-quality teaching and learning materials focused on education for sustainable development. Comprising lesson plans, multimedia resources and a variety of digital content these resources are designed to help learners understand and address complex sustainability challenges across environmental, social, and economic dimensions.

How to use these resources

These resources are intended to be reusable across different disciplinary and interdisciplinary contexts. To allow for easier navigation, they have been grouped here thematically. By providing access to these resources, we aim to empower educators in all disciplines to embed ESD concepts and development of competencies into their curricula to create a more sustainable future for all.

Problem Framing in Sustainability: Prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation

The theme of ‘Problem Framing in Sustainability: Prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation’ can be used to introduce the concepts of problem framing and problem statements, in the context of risk mitigation and adaptation, and to explore how risk management strategies to address current and future challenges related to climate change might be developed.

ESD Teaching Materials - Problem Framing - Part 1

Part 1 of 3: Characteristics of, and Factors Influencing, Complex Systems

This video introduces characteristics of, and factors influencing, complex systems.

ESD Teaching Materials - Problem Framing - Part 2

Part 2 of 3: Problem Framing and Problem Statements for Sustainability Challenge

This video aims to increase understanding of how to frame a problem in a coherent manner, and to write an effective problem statement thereafter.

ESD Teaching Materials - Problem Framing - Part 3

Part 3 of 3: Risk Management Strategies for Solution-oriented Approaches...

This video aims to introduce the concept of risk identification, and to outline defined processes for the development of risk management strategies to provide solutions-oriented approaches to prevention, mitigation and adaptation challenges.

Guide for this Theme

This Resource Guide aligns with the videos above for the theme titled: 'Problem Framing in Sustainability: Prevention, Mitigation and Adaptation' and provides context and suggestions for integrating these resources to teaching practice that is learner-centred and action-oriented, and potentially integrates to curriculum to foster transformative learning (UNESCO, 2017:55).

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Misinformation Related to Sustainable Development

The theme of ‘Misinformation related to Sustainable Development’ can be used to introduce the concepts of misinformation and disinformation, and to explore how corporate disinformation campaigns can negatively impact sustainable development initiatives and democratic processes.

ESD Teaching Materials - Misinformation - Part 1

Part 1 of 3: Common Sources of, and Tactics Used to Hide, Misinformation

This video introduces Common Sources of, and Tactics Used to Hide, Misinformation.

ESD Teaching Materials - Misinformation - Part 2

Part 2 of 3: Identification of Misinformation...

This video explores how you might identify misinformation and differentiate between 'individual interests' and the 'greater good' in messaging.

ESD Teaching Materials - Misinformation - Part 3

Part 3 of 3: Practical, Political and Personal Spheres of Responses...

This video addresses how the viewer might activate change from a range of perspective including the Practical, Political and Personal Spheres of Responses.

Guide for this Theme

This Resource Guide aligns with the videos above for the theme titled: 'Misinformation related to Sustainable Development' and provides context and suggestions for integrating these resources to teaching practice that is learner-centred and action-oriented, and potentially integrates to curriculum to foster transformative learning (UNESCO, 2017:55).

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Acknowledgements

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Many of the resources shared here were developed collaboratively by six ESD Fellows and four student interns as part of Trinity’s ‘Enacting Education for Sustainable Development in Trinity’ Module. Click here to find out more about this module and its development. This work was funded by the National Forum/Higher Education Authority under the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.