Teaching Materials for ESD
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.
Videos
- Part 1 of 3: Characteristics of, and Factors Influencing, Complex Systems This video introduces characteristics of, and factors influencing, complex systems. It aims to increase understanding of the term ‘complex system’, and to support reflection on the proposal that a shared understanding of sustainability challenges requires overcoming individual bias to accommodate a systems view.
- Part 2 of 3: Problem Framing and Problem Statements for Sustainability Challenges This video aims to increase understanding of how to frame a problem in a coherent manner, and to write an effective problem statement thereafter.
- Part 3 of 3: Risk Management Strategies for Solution-oriented Approaches to Prevention, Mitigation and Adaption 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).
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.
Videos
- 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. It aims to prompt reflection on sources of misinformation – including one's own biases - and introduces scenarios that introduce the viewer to misinformation campaigns previously used by a selection of industries.
- Part 2 of 3: Identification of Misinformation and Differentiating Between Individual Interests and the 'Greater Good' This video explores how you might identify misinformation and differentiate between 'individual interests' and the 'greater good' in messaging. It aims to prompt reflection on a range of different tactics used to structure misinformation and/ or to deliberately misinform by challenging the viewer to 'name that frame'.
- Part 3 of 3: Practical, Political and Personal Spheres of Responses: Activating Change This video addresses how the viewer might activate change from a range of perspective including the Practical, Political and Personal Spheres of Responses. The viewer is prompted with a range of examples and then encouraged to prepare a personalised version to support future action.
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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