GRESD CONFERENCE:

THE PATH TOWARDS AN ESD ORIENTED TEACHER EDUCATION

INSTITUTIONUppsala, May 2011

Kirsti Marie Jegstad

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INTRODUCTION

My teacher education institution has an overall goal:

Educate teachers that can contribute to

Sustainable Development

Action research project

– Inclusion of ESD into the teacher education program

– Develoing the teacher educators’ competencies regarding ESD

This presentation:

Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)

Overall goal

Decision Implementation

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ABOUT OUR TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTION

100 teachers: science and/or agriculture

Two different teaching programs:

– One-year undergraduate teacher education program for candidates with a vocational or academic educational background

– Five-year program that includes both teacher education and content knowledge in a masters degree

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Combines different levels of analysis in studies of how institutional practices change

Designed to enhance understanding of human activity situated in a collective context

Object-driven activity

– Activity system as the unit of analysis

– History is important

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ABOUT CULTURAL HISTORICAL ACTIVITY THEORY

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OBJECTSUBJECT

TOOLS

OUTCOME

SUBJECTGroup of teacher

educators working together in the teacher

education program

DIVISION OF LABORDemocratic processes, people strengths, time

pressure, etc.

OBJECTEducate teachers that can

contribute to SD

OUTCOMEDependent on the factors

in the CHAT triangle

COMMUNITY

TOOLSPlans for the TE program,

assignments, exams, reading lists, theoretical

knowledge, etc.

DIVISION OF LABOR

RULES

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USING CHAT IN MY PROJECT

RULESInternational agreements, national regulations, local regulations, informal rules

COMMUNITYUniversity, colleagues,

students, student-mentors

UMBs Vision: The Norwegian University of Life Sciences will be an internationally renowned and innovative university for life sciences, ecology and sustainable development

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Activity theory seeks to analyze development within practical social activities

In my project:

– Raising of consciousness

• How does our organization really look like?

• How does things in our organization interact?

• What happens if one factor is changed?

– Understand how we came to the decision of the goal

– CHAT as a tool in the action research project

• Which factors need to change to reach our goal?

• The meeting point of our Activity system with other

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CONCLUSION

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THANK YOU!!!