Technology and Vocational Education for Sustainable Development: Empowering Individuals for the Future

✍ Scribed by Margarita Pavlova (auth.), Margarita Pavlova (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 211
• Series: Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Issues, Concerns and Prospects 10
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The ways education for sustainable development can be addressed in teaching and learning are among the most urgent challenges for modern educational theory and practice. This book explores the unique contribution technology and vocational education can provide to meet these urgent needs.

Part 1 examines various concepts from different areas of knowledge that are used to develop a comprehensive understanding of the ways sustainable development, education for sustainable development and empowerment are related and can be conceptualised. Practical strategies are suggested and a model for pre-service teacher training programs is developed. Part 2 explores how general issues are reflected in local norms, values and behaviours within the Russian context. The case study illustrates the importance of understanding the political and sociocultural context of a country in order to develop empowerment strategies that work for that particular society as they reflect specific local histories, values and traditions.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XIII
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Technology Education as an Effective Way of Providing Vocational Education Within Secondary Schooling....Pages 5-26
Conceptualising Values in Technology Education and Formulating Bases for Empowerment Strategies....Pages 27-44
Sustainable Development and Education....Pages 45-65
Technology Education and ESD....Pages 67-86
Curriculum Development for ESD Through Technology and Vocational Education....Pages 87-103
Teachers’ Capacity Building....Pages 105-121
Modernisation of Russian Education....Pages 125-147
Sustainable Development, the Russian Way....Pages 149-173
Education for Sustainable Development in Russia....Pages 175-192
Back Matter....Pages 193-205

✦ Subjects

Professional & Vocational Education; Sustainable Development