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The Leadership for Education for Sustainable Development (LEAD-ESD) course is for policy makers, heads of institutions, teacher educators and TVET educators. Teachers and TVET instuctors could also benefit from the program. The focus is on an action-oriented approach to transformative learning in teacher education and TVET institutions. The programme encourages teacher educators and TVET educators to put transformative education and learning towards sustainable development at the centre of their educational work.The course follows a 5-step action learning programme framework.
Leadership for Education for Sustainable Development (LEAD-ESD) Mandate
About the course
Leadership for Education for Sustainable Development (LEAD-ESD) is a regional programme that falls within UNESCO’s ‘Education for Sustainable Development: Towards achieving the SDGs’ or ‘ESD for 2030’ programme. It aims to support capacity building for policy makers, heads of institutions, teacher educators and TVET educators in Eastern Africa to respond to regional sustainable development concerns and opportunities, the Africa 2063 Agenda, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this programme, you and your teacher education/TVET institution (TEI) will be supported to work on developing an Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) Change Project that will model best practice for ESD in your country, in the Eastern Africa region, on the African continent, and internationally.
Teacher and TVET educators need to use the professional learning on this course to improve the education of teachers and TVET instructors. In turn, this will support teachers and TVET instructors to integrate ESD into their teaching practice. The programme seeks to support educational engagement with ‘The Africa we Want’ by re-thinking what quality education and training is.
Leadership for Education for Sustainable Development (LEAD-ESD)
The focus is on an action-oriented approach to ransformative learning in teacher education and TVET institutions.
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Leadership for Education for Sustainable Development (LEAD-ESD) course is for teacher educators and TVET educators.
The Leadership for Education for Sustainable Development (LEAD-ESD) is a UNESCO-led capacity building programme for policy makers, heads of institutions, teacher educators, and TVET educators/instructors on Education for Sustainable Development in Eastern Africa
The programme encourages teacher educators and TVET educators to put transformative education and learning towards sustainable development at the centre of their educational work.
Education for Sustainable Development Change Projects
Change Projects are self-defined institutional change initiatives. They include curriculum innovations, pedagogical innovations and whole-institution innovations. Importantly, all Change Projects must be orientated towards sustainability, and to relevant policy in participating countries.
Change Projects in teacher/TVET education can focus on teaching practice improvements, assessment, integration of culture and indigenous knowledge into curriculum, community engagement, and science and technology innovations for sustainability. Whole institution sustainability initiatives are also welcome.
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