The Green Skills of Secondary School Teachers: Overview of Issues and Pedagogical Approaches in Sustainability Education
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https://doi.org/10.7346/-fei-XXI-03-23_08Keywords:
Sustainability education, Professionalism of teachers, Secondary school, Pedagogical approachesAbstract
The article explores some of the pedagogical approaches and themes that support teachers’ practices to promote sustainability education in secondary school. Based on the first results emerging from the literature review conducted within the three-year PON Green research project (2022–2025) entitled “The ecological challenge: innovative educational practices”, the authors will highlight the reference framework and some areas that currently guide the national and international debate on the professionalism of teachers in the field of sustainability education. This first phase of research has allowed us to start some reflections on the need to foster skills and practices in the field of sustainability that facilitate the intersection between multiple dimensions and capable of supporting a truly transformative change.
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