This resource includes the presentations and recordings of the 3-part webinar-series entitled „Enacting Education for Sustainable Development: spotlight on teaching practices for exploring ‘Worldviews, Perceptions and Values’.
The webinar-series shares insights on Trinity College Dublin’s ‘Enacting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in Trinity’ staff development module (referred to as Enacting ESD module), especially through one of its five related blocks, ‘Exploring worldviews, perceptions and values’. This module forms the basis of a CHARM-EU Joint Educational Activities project (CHARM-ED) implemented in partnership between Trinity College Dublin (TCD), Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) and the University of Barcelona (UB), which focuses on the Enacting ESD module’s adaptation to varying institutional contexts as well as its possible transformation to a micro-credential.
Webinar 1
Webinar 1 outlines the background to the development of the Enacting ESD module in TCD and introduces the theory underpinning the workshop design.
- Webinar 1 recording: watch the recording
- Webinar 1 presentation: download the presentation
Webinar 2
Webinar 2 focuses on the students-as-Partners (SaP) approach taken to workshop case studies and activities for the Enacting ESD module, involving as speakers the PhD students that participated in its co-development and roll-out to staff and to undergraduate Business Students.
- Webinar 2 recording: watch the recording
- Webinar 2 presentation: download the presentation
Webinar 3
Webinar 3 shares the background to and learnings from introducing the Enacting ESD module at the Trinity Business School, involving as speakers the colleagues actively involved in the roll-out.
- Webinar 3 recording: watch the recording
- Webinar 3 presentation: download the presentation
Acknowledgements
TCD, UB and ELTE’s CHARM-ED project Enacting ESD enables staff to experience, and then integrate the student-centred, action-oriented and transformative approaches into their teaching envisaged in UNESCO’s preferred pedagogical approaches. The project adapts resources previously used for professional development in TCD to create a micro-credential format shareable across the CHARM-EU Alliance.
‘Exploring worldviews, perceptions and values’ is one of five related blocks collaboratively developed by an interdisciplinary staff-student team in TCD (2023-2024). Videos are grounded in the Sustainable Development Goals, Rockstrom and Colleagues’ planetary boundaries and Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics shortfall dimensions providing core insights from experts. Mining in the Congo provides real-world case studies, developed by student interns, helping learners to question their worldviews, perceptions and valuesrelated to sustainability dilemmas from community, policy maker and corporate perspectives. Workshop activities incorporate cycles of role play and peer debate that induce learners to accommodate alternate perspectives presented by their peers using established techniques for moral reasoning competencies development. Reflection on Raworth’s social equity and gender equality dimensions are prioritised. Having experienced the workshop process as a learner, facilitated exploration of the theoretical underpinnings, or pedagogical approach, used in workshop design supports Teaching Practice development for those enacting Education for Sustainable Development.
Enacting ESD module content and activities were developed collaboratively by six ESD Fellows (Carlos Rocha, Cicely Roche, Sarah-Jane Cullinane, John Gallagher, Clare Kelly, and Felix Mezzanotte) and four student interns, (Maryam Yabo, William Reynolds, Freddie Fallon and Tom Hegarty), as part of TCD’s ‘Enacting Education for Sustainable Development in Trinity’ programme in 2023-2024. A wide range of students and staff actively engaged with and impacted positively on piloting and continuous improvement of workshops during late 2023-2024. Content was edited to OER format by Mr Kevin O Connor at the Centre for Academic Practice in TCD (2025).
The work on the Enacting ESD module was funded by the National Forum/Higher Education Authority (Ireland) under the Strategic Alignment of Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund.
