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Sustainability Starts with Teachers – Making the Slogan Real by Implementing It into Practice: A Case from Poland (96234)
Session Chair: Genevieve Audet
Thursday, 2 October 2025 13:25
Session: Session 1
Room: (B1) Gràcia
Presentation Type:Oral Presentation
The idea of common sustainability behaviours and attitudes, followed by effective activities towards a more balanced life, parallels the need for broad and collective education. The need has gradually emerged, highlighting the importance of ESD. The first visible acceleration occurred during the DESD (2005-2014). Since then, various programmes have taken place, mainly concentrating on students. Teachers have been “left in a shadow”. There were no standard courses for teachers to prepare them to answer contemporary expectations for educating generations aware of the Anthropocene challenges and capable of combating them. Now, after the midterm of the SDGs plan, it is clearly understood that the visible achievement of the goals is impossible without education. Teachers have been shifted into the first row. It is clearly presented that humanity may get closer to sustainability changes only with broadly prepared teachers. Yet, practice doesn’t follow collective expectations. A spectacular turn is needed. Concepts of re-imagining education, thinking afresh, anticipating futures of education and implementing ideas that would inspire people to re-create their local world, embracing the global perspective is pivotal. The presentation aims not only to present the process of raising the consciousness of teachers’ importance but also to show practical examples of working with student-teachers in the endeavour for sustainability—the fight for sustainable literacy needs multileveled preparation. Examples of good practices from Poland involving future teachers in perceiving issues through “sustainability glasses”, understanding core problems, and giving tools for how to react to them will constitute the second part of the speech.
Authors:
Aneta Rogalska-Marasinska, University of Lodz, Poland
About the Presenter(s)
Professor Aneta Rogalska-Marasinska is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at University of Lodz in Poland
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