Sustainability – Local explorations – Global awareness

'Bildung’-making for a sustainable future in an interdisciplinary teacher education course (nature and technology/history)?

Abstract

Education for Sustainable Development in teacher education: Possibilities, capabilities, and dilemmas in educating teachers to handle the complexity of sustainability issues through interdisciplinary and outdoor didactics. What is the relationship between specific substantive knowledge and interdisciplinary skills and the measurable competencies and 'Bildung' processes for teachers in a sustainable future? This paper presents a course, its intentions, methodology, content, and a discussion of the dilemmas between, on the one hand, subject-specific skills in 'nature & technology' and in 'history,' as well as interdisciplinary skills, and on the other hand measurable competencies in teacher education and ideals of 'Bildung.'