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The enSI international NETWORK
• Environment and School Initiatives is a decentralised
international network set up in 1986 under the umbrella of
OECD's Centre for Educational Research & Innovation
(CERI)
• For more than 20 years, enSI has supported educational
developments that promote environmental understanding,
active approaches to teaching and learning, and citizenship
education, through research, policy development and the
exchange of experiences and knowledge internationally.
enSI
partners and members
enSI main partners are:
• Governments committed to improving environmental
education and education for sustainable development.
• Pilot schools with teachers and pupils
• Researchers and experts
• Teachers educators and their students
Member countries and countries involved in ENSI include
• Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, China,
Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland,
Italy, Japan, Korea, Luxembourg, New Zealand,
Norway, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK
enSI
aims
• to foster the democratic participation of students as active
citizens in shaping the environmental conditions of their
life and work,
• to promote and facilitate the development of an
ecologically sustainable society and related actions within
educational systems,
• to create innovative research networks which link practice
in schools and the community with academic educational
research and with institutional decision making.
A new Era for enSI
• An Institutional partnership with UNESCO and a
key role in the UN Decade for Education for
Sustainable Development ( 2005-2014)
• A driving force in promoting the UNECE strategy
document on education for sustainable
development ( 2004)
• New project concepts in the areas of intercultural
learning, disabled people and other marginalised
groups, vocational training, higher education and
informal education
Examples enSI projects to date
• Teachers education, supports the integration of
innovative approaches into teacher education
programmes through environmental education.
• CSCT Curriculum, Sustainable development,
Competences, Teacher training. www.csct-project.org
• Learnscapes across the globe, involves the school
community redesigning its school grounds to enable
children, teachers and their communities to interact
with their local environment.
Examples enSI projects to date
• European Council
– Engaging youth in sustainable development
• Comenius networks
– SEED School development through Environmental
Education
• Quality Criteria for ESD schools
• Tools for ESD schools
– SUPPORT “Partnership and Participation for a
Sustainable Tomorrow
Engaging youth in sustainable
development
• Collection of good practices from 14
countries
• Learning and Teaching Sustainable
Development in Lower Secondary
Schools
• inspire teachers and students to engage
towards an ecologic, economic and
social improvement of their community.
Quality Criteria for ESDschools
Michela Mayer
Finn Mogensen
ESD-schools, what is that?
Forest schools
Green schools
Eco-schools
Model schools
Outdoor schools
Schools for a sustainable future
This kind of schools are increasing in
number and improving in quality
under different names at European
and international level
Why focusing on ‘Quality
criteria’?
• The schools use explicit or implicit criteria for
reflecting on the processes and for evaluating
their achievements
• More often these criteria are ‘given’ to the
school networks by educational authorities or
by NGOs
• Criteria can be used for ‘Quality control’ or
for ‘Quality enhancement’
Quality criteria for ESDschools
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Aimed at facilitating discussions within the school to
clarify the main aims and changes and to develop the
school’s own list of quality criteria, adapted to the
school’s own situation and the school’s plans for change.
• 3 groups of criteria:
– Quality criteria regarding the quality of teaching
and learning processes
– Quality criteria regarding the school policy and
organisation
– Quality criteria regarding the school’s external
relations
How they are organised
• An example
• The rationale
• The quality criteria
• The ….open dots
Future challenges :
the use of Quality Criteria for an
ESD school development
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In order to really be a frame of reference and a
binding element of a programme or a school, it must
be jointly constructed and accepted by all the
participants.
The SEED-ENSI proposal as a non-exhaustive list of
‘quality criteria’ to be used as a starting point for
reflections, debates and further development.
Translation to national languages, ENSI offer help to
layout the new language versions.
Other challenges
Intercultural challenges:
– What examples, criteria or rationales are
meaningful in our local, regional, national
context?
Teachers training challenges:
– What kind of teachers training we need in
order to be consistent with these criteria?
Tools for ESD schools
• A guide for teachers involved in school
partnerships and school networks that are
considering the use of exchange and dialogue
amongst schools for school development
through Environmental Education.
• It offers methods that help to plann and run a
project on Education for Sustainable
Development and international partnerships.
SUPPORT
• Comenius network “Partnership and Participation
for a Sustainable Tomorrow”,
• 31 partner institutions in 14 European Union and
EFTA countries, plus 9 other participants from 7
countries.
• The project will bring concepts and issues of SD
into the education system by linking schools,
research institutions and communities in a
web-based network.
• http://www.sustain.no/
CASALEN
• CArpathian Sustainability Education LEarning
Network
– The aim of the network is facilitating social,
economical change towards sustainable development in
the society through shared learning
– CASALEN is a learning network rather than an official
or administrative network. In this learning network the
participants would like to share their knowledge and
would like to learn together what they are uncertain
about with a strong focus on practical and experimental
approaches
CASALEN -ideas
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Common web platform
Network of ESD commissions in the region
Common researches,
Common projects
CASALEN –opportunities
–UNEP - OMV
–Visegrad fund
–EU-LLL program
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