Abstract
Full text of the article is available both in English and Czech.The case study is based primarily on long-standing collaboration of two public sector institutions: the MU in Brno and the Deblín Primary School and Kindergarten, with cooperation of experts in numerous other institutions. The MU in Brno and the Deblín Primary School and Kindergarten focus on research, teaching and, above all, practical applications of sustainability/security. The objective of the study is to revise the theoretical and methodological frameworks influencing approaches to teaching sustainability in primary education and, through it, to open a discussion of civic society topics and formation starting at the level of children/pupils/students. The vehicle for achieving the objective is a thorough critical view of the “Deblínsko landscape project”. The authors’ experience concerns development of dialogue between the world of science and its applications and needs of those on whom its consequences impact. They are collected as part of activities aimed primarily at intensive field and project teaching, which reflects the sustainability discourse in the primary, secondary and tertiary education practice and is also connected with establishment of international collaboration. The focus of the field work is based on the understanding of each of the institutions as regional education centres (Deblín Primary School and Kindergarten = community centre), focused on solving issues of sustainability, involving owners, users, decision-makers, shareholders and stakeholders within public territorial administration, represented by means of goals and measures of regional development schemes along with micro-regional development programmes and local action group (LAG) activities.
Highlights
The present study is the outcome of collaborative work on development of study materials concerned with education for sustainability
The section on methods describes the theoretical frameworks of the project, the chosen approaches to participatory action research, the importance of revised taxonomies of educational goals, and translation of the dispositif concept into a matrix for sustainability educational themes
Children/pupils are the means of starting community transformations;
Summary
The present study is the outcome of collaborative work on development of study materials concerned with education for sustainability. The section on methods describes the theoretical frameworks of the project, the chosen approaches to participatory action research, the importance of revised taxonomies of educational goals, and translation of the dispositif concept into a matrix for sustainability educational themes. Following a brief summary of results (chapter 3) is a discussion of the specific impacts of the methodological development on teaching at the MU Department of Geography and the Deblín project as such. The study structure reflects the main objective of the paper, which is to revise the theoretical and methodological concepts informing innovations in approaches to sustainability education in primary schools in order to open a critical discussion of civic society issues. The core of the study is based on a transcription of significant outcomes of the Deblínsko landscape project, used as a best practice example in environmental education
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