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A potential international support system for Education for Sustainable Development. Meet Otto a cod, in the North Sea. Environmental challenges for Otto first weeks: Born with toxic chemicals Feeds on microlayer, highly contaminated UV-radiation affects his growth
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A potential international support system for Education for Sustainable Development
Meet Otto a cod, in the North Sea • Environmental challenges for Otto first weeks: • Born with toxic chemicals • Feeds on microlayer, highly contaminated • UV-radiation affects his growth • Nutrients produces toxic algae's, reduces his food • Climate change changes his feeding areas • After some months: • Very difficult to get away from the industrial fleet • Moves coast outside Africa • Meets Helen, just to become father – no success • Caught by the EU fleet • Sold as ecological sound product due to new fishing gears
Lessons learned in Norway • Pupils experience that they are able to contribute something useful to society. They do “real work” and produce high-quality results. • Impressive concrete results can be achieved when many schools join together • Better learning and working environment when the school leadership, maintenance people, teachers and pupils co-operate.
Lessons learned in Norway • The Network gives legitimacy to interdisciplinary, action-oriented teaching methods. Teachers and schools receive the support they need for these learning approaches. • Co-operation with “heavy” ministries and research/scientific institutions lends credibility to the school’s work. • The network creates win-win situations between the schools and other parts of the society
Good mixture of thematic issues? • Biological diversity • Climate and air quality • Consumption and resources • Democracy and participation • Energy and renewable resources • Water issues
How to proceed? The Norwegian Directorate is open for: • Maintain the solution at our current servers for international use • Make this prototype into an ENSI ICT operational “product” – thereby also basis for ENSI evaluation projects later • Develop it further in 2006 with active involvement from other countries • Establish an international operational editorial board
Contact information: Astrid Sandås, Directorate for Primary and Secondary EducationAstrid.Sandas@utdanningsdirektoratet.no: +47 23 30 13 18 Geir Endregard, NILUgen@nilu.no: +47 63 80 81 10 Brage Frøland, School laboratory Univ. in Bergen brage@uib.no: +47 55 58 24 15