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Promoting sustainability education: A theory and theory-based methods to promote ESD, good environment and good life. Results of over 30 years of cumulative R&D program Mauri Ahlberg Professor of Biology and Sustainability Education University of Helsinki http://www.helsinki.fi/people/mauri.ahlberg • Sustainability Education vs. different versions of Environmental Education •1977 Tbilisi Congress: Very broad definition of Environmental Education •1992 Rio de Janeiro: Importance of biodiversity clearly understood for sustainable development •2002 Johannesburg: Political decision: Sustainable development requires continual integration of (1) ecological (environmental), (2) economic and (3) social development. •UN DESD (2005 – 2014) The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development My personal development: (1) 1966 - 1992: traditional Environmental Education: (2)1993 – 2004: Integrating Environmental education (economical and social aspects integrated with ecological education) (3) 2004 – 2011: Education for Sustainability: integrating ecological, ecological and social education (4) 2006 – 2011: The core of sustainability education is biodiversity ecucation Rationale: (1)Humans (Homo sapiens) are part of the biosphere and totally dependent on the rest of biodiversity for their food, renewable raw materials and other ecosystem services. (2) Biosphere consists of different organism species that are partly different in different parts of the world. (3) There is no cumulative biological research or learning without knowing species. (4) Biosphere and its biodiversity ought to be used sustainably. Local people are responsible for local biodiversity and its conservation and sustainable use. The first theory based tools to promote biodiversity education: (1)Improvered concept mapping: Ahlberg, M. 1993. Concept Maps, Vee Diagrams and Rhetorical Argumentation Analysis (RAA) : Three Educational Theory-based Tools to Facilitate Meaningful Learning, http://www.mlrg.org/proc3pdfs/Ahlberg_Meaningf ulLearning.pdf The second theory based tool to promote biodiversity education: (2) NatureGate Online Service for rapid, interactive species identification that is based on a patented method and system: Ahlberg, M., Lehmuskallio, E. & Lehmuskallio, J. 2006. NatureGate®, concept mapping and CmapTools: Creating global networks of servers for improved learning about, in and for nature, ecosystems, biodiversity, and sustainable development. In Canas, A. & Novak, J. (Eds.) Concept Maps: Theory, Methodology, Technology. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Concept Mapping. San José, Costa Rica - September 5-8, 2006. San Jose: Universidad de Costa Rica, 457 - 460, http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2006Papers/cmc2006p230.pdf#search=%22NatureGate%22 In 2009, IUCN CEC writes about NatureGate Online Service: http://www.iucn.org/about/union/commissions/ce c/?2614/ How improved concept mapping differs from original Novakian concept maps (Novak & Gowin 1984, Novak 1998) Åhlberg, M. 2004.Varieties of concept mapping. In Canas, A., Novak, J., Gonzales, F. (Eds.) Concept Maps: Theory, Methodology, Technology. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Concept mapping. CMC 2004. Pamplona, Spain, Sept 14 – 17, Vol. 2, 25- 28, http://cmc.ihmc.us/papers/cmc2004-206.pdf An early example of how concept mapping can be used intergrating materials from NatureGate: Lehmuskallio, E., Lehmuskallio, J., Kaasinen, A. & Åhlberg, M. 2008. NatureGate® online service as a resource source for CmapTools. In Cañas, A, Reiska, P., Åhlberg, M. & Novak, J. ( Eds.) 2008. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Concept Mapping. Concept Mapping: Connecting Educators. Tallinn, Estonia & Helsinki, Finland 2008, http://cmc.ihmc.us/cmc2008papers/cmc2008p801.pdf As an interactive web page created out of a concept map created by CmapTools: http://cmap.helsinki.fi/rid=1GFXKWXZZ-1G8ND1459S/Concept_map_for_demonstrating_power_of_ CmapTools_CMC_2008.cmap An example of integrating use of CmapTools and NatureGate: Demonstrating food chains and food webs: • Improved concept mapping, improved Vee heuristic, and my version of action research are central elements in the following textbook in print: Wheeldon, J. & Ahlberg, M. 2011. Visualizing Social Science Research: Maps, Methods, & Meaning. Los Angeles: SAGE, http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=s earch-alias%3Dstripbooks&fieldkeywords=wheeldon+ahlberg&x=0&y=0