Short description:

This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification.

Long description:

This book shares real-life case studies taken from GreenSCENT, a three-year EU-funded project that promotes sustainability through the development of digital platforms and tools, green education programme, and climate and environmental literacy certification.

To date there has been little work published on the application of the European Green Deal in educational programmes and, while environmental education is very dynamic at present, this area has received scant attention. Seeking to remedy this critical omission, this book represents the first application of the Green Deal topics in the classroom. It examines environmental education from an academic perspective, looking specifically at the development of digital tools used to promote sustainability and provides recommendations for their practical application. The authors also discuss ways to engage larger and more diverse audiences (children, young people, and adults across socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds) on the topic of sustainability through activities such as air quality monitoring, Climathons, and Youth Assemblies.

As the highlighting factors are inclusivity, accessible design, and responsible research and innovation, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of European environmental policy and environmental education.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Introduction: Sarah Anne McDonagh, Alessandro Caforio, and Alessandro Pollini.

Part 1 - Theoretical and methodological approaches

Chapter 1: Current State of Education for Sustainable Development - Loukas Katikas and Sofoklis Sotiriou.

Chapter 2: The GreenSCENT Competence Frameworks - Andrea Tomassi, Andrea Falegnami, Linda Meleo, and Elpidio Romano.

Chapter 3: User Stories, Motivation for Behavioural Change and Educational Challenges - Gian Andrea Giacobone, Alessandro Pollini, and Alessandro Caforio.

Chapter 4: Design Research for Regeneration and Care - Alessandro Pollini and Gian Andrea Giacobone.

Chapter 5:  Sustainability for All: The importance of implementing EU accessibility policies in the Green Deal - Pilar Orero.

Chapter 6:  Responsible Research and Innovation: Looking for answers - Maria ?kerman, Nina Wessberg, and Hanna Saari 

Part 2 - Experiences and demonstrators

Chapter 7: Digital Demonstrators' Development - Alessandra Aurelio and Vladimiro Scotto Di Carlo.

Chapter 8: Youth Assemblies: Youth engagement for green learning and action - Mattias Friis J?rgensen, Ditte Maria Burmeister, Sif Juhl Jacobsen, and Ida Skov Nielsen.

Chapter 9: Climathon - Manfred Mudelsee, Uglješa Stankov, Biljana Basarin and Miroslav Vujičić.

Chapter 10: GreenAir: Designing an interactive air quality learning experience - Diana Urquiza.

Chapter 11: Testing Air Quality with Schoolchildren - Lorena Banyuls and Jaume Targa.

Part 3 - Recommendations, legacy and resilience

Chapter 12: Whole School Approaches to Education for Sustainable Development - Loukas Katikas and Sofoklis Sotiriou.

Chapter 13: The Emergence of the GreenSCENT Competence Framework: A Constructivist Approach: The GreenSCENT Theory - Andrea Falegnami, Elpidio Romano, and Andrea Falegnami.

Chapter 14: Accessibility in the Context of the European Green Deal: Lessons from the GreenSCENT Project - Sarah Anne McDonagh.

Chapter 15: Assessing the Impact of the GreenSCENT Project - Teuvo Uusitalo, Zarrin Fatima, and Jyri Hanski.

Index