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Connections Between Sustainable Development Competences and Pedagogical Approaches

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Competences in Education for Sustainable Development

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This chapter provides a discussion on the connections between sustainable development competences and the pedagogical approaches used to develop them. It first reviews the competences and pedagogical approaches. The chapter highlights that a combination of pedagogical approaches is needed to better develop sustainability competences. The combination of pedagogical approaches has to take into consideration as well as the context and nature of the discipline, programme, and course being taught. The combination should encourage teachers and their students to challenge traditional mono-disciplinary and silo approaches in order to provide solutions to complex, multi-level, and wicked problems affecting the economic, environmental, social, and time dimensions of sustainability.

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  1. Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of Gävle, Gävle, Sweden

    Rodrigo Lozano & Maria Barreiro-Gen

  2. Organisational Sustainability, Ltd., Cardiff, UK

    Rodrigo Lozano

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  3. Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, University of Vechta, Vechta, Germany

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Lozano, R., Barreiro-Gen, M. (2022). Connections Between Sustainable Development Competences and Pedagogical Approaches. In: Vare, P., Lausselet, N., Rieckmann, M. (eds) Competences in Education for Sustainable Development. Sustainable Development Goals Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91055-6_17

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