Infrastructures, territoires, transports, énergies, écosystèmes et paysages

[Appel à candidature] proposition de collaboration d'Amanda Sjölund, enseignante à l'école de Leksand en Suède

[mardi 3 septembre 2019 21:04]
[mercredi 4 septembre 2019 15:24]
Amanda Sjölund travaille à la construction d'un projet de collaboration transfrontalière visant à utiliser les infrastructures comme outil pédagogique sur le développement durable. Hello
 
My name is Amanda Sjölund and I work as a teacher at a school in Leksand, Sweden in the subjects of physics, technology, biology and chemistry.  
I am looking for other teachers from different countries in the world, who may be interested to start a collaboration in connection with my project, using infrastructure as instrument to get a more concrete discussion when teaching students about sustainable development  I have a bachelor degree in biology and environmental science, but in recent years I have been stuck for the teaching profession. I have always had a great interest in ecology and have previously worked on various projects dealing with infrastructure and its impact on ecosystems. Especially projects that deals with infrastructure and its impact on bats.

2018 I started a project in school with my students where the aim was to teach students in the age of sixteen about sustainable development using infrastructure as an instrument to get a more concrete discussion on the subject. The focus was on working thematically on the subjects of technology, focusing on planning and building roads and road networks and biology with a focus on ecology and the impact on biodiversity. They got the opportunity to become aware of how to create sustainability in the future while meeting needs (individuals, society, economic, interests, companies etc.) within the environmental absolute conditions and thereby got the introductions to their final assignment, how to cooperate with
nature while building, for example roads and railways, to create their own vision of how the transport system by 2050 can improve. Last year I was invited to present this at IENE in Eindhoven.  

This year 2019, in order to develop the project, we worked thematically on the subjects of geography, social studies, technology and biology to give the students a broader knowledge of different countries´ ecological, social and economic conditions for creating a globally sustainable transport system, and their final assignment was to create their own vision of how the society in different countries can improve the transport system by 2050.  

It is very important for students to learn about this area of infrastructure and sustainable development as it is them who are our future and them who will plan this in the future. They gain an insight into a global problem that must be solved jointly in all countries and they get the chance, both to be creative and ambitious while learning about sustainable development. I have an idea to further develop this project by collaborating with other
teachers from other countries, who would like to work in this area with their students and therefore wonder if any of you know anyone who would be interested in this?
 
If you are interested, please contact me on mail: amanda.sjolund1[@]gmail.com