Understanding Sustainability with Pedagogical Practice

Osvaldo Muñiz Solari is a professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Texas State University, USA. His major research interests in geography education are new technologies for global collaboration, learning strategies, and recontextualization of knowledge. He is an advisory member of the International Geographical Union—Commission on Geographical Education steering committee, and a member of the US national section of the Pan American Institute of Geography and History. Gabriele Schrüfer is a professor and the chair of Didactics of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. Her major research interests in geography education are education for sustainable development, global learning, intercultural learning, decolonization of Africa in geography lessons, and the learning of geography in the age of digitality. She founded the Center for Global Learning at the University of Bayreuth and chairs the working group for the Orientation Framework on Global Development for the subject of geography. She is also a member of the Cluster of Excellence “Africa Multiple: Reconfiguring African Studies”.

• Recontextualizing Sustainability: Regulative and Instructional Discourse.- Learning culture, Competencies and Consequences for Sustainability.- Dealing with Uncertainty in a Transformative Education for Sustainable Development.- Education for Sustainable Development in a Culture of Digitality.- School Geography as Radical Global Citizen Education.- Sustainable Contradictions? The Prospect for an Eco-socialist School Geography.- Bringing Sustainability into the Classroom.- Subject Matter Knowledge and Sustainability – Implications for Classroom Instruction.- Teaching with Geographical Situations to Practice Sustainability.- Geography Education for Sustainable Development through Problem-based Learning.- Factors Affecting Geography Pre-service Teachers’ Perception about Education for Sustainable Development.- Geographical Knowledge and (Education for) Sustainable Development in Geography Curricula.- Preparing Pre-service Teachers for Practicing Sustainable Geographies through Online Technology Integration.- Practicing students SDG Strategies through Fieldwork – Exploring Student Perspectives on Green Urban Planning Models in a Nature Park.- Opportunities and Challenges in Geography Education to Practice Sustainability Education.