Johan Öhman – författare

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching challenges related to the ethical and political dimension of environmental and sustainability education.Bringing together recent scholarship on the topic, this book translates state-of-the-art academic research into teaching models, methods and tools. Starting with an outline of the challenge of sustainability, it offers insights and models for understanding the interesting yet ambiguous concept of ‘sustainable development’ and the complex process of transforming society in a more sustainable direction (Part I). It then goes on to provide a guide to preparing courses and lessons as well as tools for reflection about teaching practices and the multiplicity of approaches to addressing ethical and political challenges in sustainable development teaching (Part II). Finally, the book offers useful conceptual frameworks, models and typologies about the concrete design and implementation of sustainable development teaching (Part III).This book will be essential reading for students of education, as well as teachers in compulsory and higher education and sustainability education researchers.

The aim of this book is to support and inspire teachers to contribute to much-needed processes of sustainable development and to develop teaching practices and professional identities that allow them to cope with the specificity of sustainability issues and, in particular, with the teaching challenges related to the ethical and political dimension of environmental and sustainability education.Bringing together recent scholarship on the topic, this book translates state-of-the-art academic research into teaching models, methods and tools. Starting with an outline of the challenge of sustainability, it offers insights and models for understanding the interesting yet ambiguous concept of ‘sustainable development’ and the complex process of transforming society in a more sustainable direction (Part I). It then goes on to provide a guide to preparing courses and lessons as well as tools for reflection about teaching practices and the multiplicity of approaches to addressing ethical and political challenges in sustainable development teaching (Part II). Finally, the book offers useful conceptual frameworks, models and typologies about the concrete design and implementation of sustainable development teaching (Part III).This book will be essential reading for students of education, as well as teachers in compulsory and higher education and sustainability education researchers.

Philosophers of education are largely unaware of Dewey’s concept of transactionalism, yet it is implicit in much of his philosophy, educational or otherwise from the late 1890s onwards. Written by scholars from Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA, this book shows how transactionalism can offer an entirely new way of understanding teaching and learning, the individual and sociocultural dimension of education, and educational research. The contributors show how the concept helps us to see beyond an array of false dualisms, such as mind versus body, self versus society, and organism versus environment, as well as an equally vast array of binaries, such as inside-outside, presence-absence, and male-female. They introduce the key critical ideas that transactionalism represents including emergence; living in a world without a within; the temporally and extensionally distributed nature of meaning, mind, and self. The use and elaboration of transactionalism is grounded in philosophical inquires and in empirical analyses of practices in formal and informal settings including values education, early childhood education, biology education, museum education, coding and computer science, Oceanographic and Atmospheric study, policy reform, play, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Philosophers of education are largely unaware of Dewey’s concept of transactionalism, yet it is implicit in much of his philosophy, educational or otherwise from the late 1890s onwards. Written by scholars from Belgium, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and the USA, this book shows how transactionalism can offer an entirely new way of understanding teaching and learning, the individual and sociocultural dimension of education, and educational research. The contributors show how the concept helps us to see beyond an array of false dualisms, such as mind versus body, self versus society, and organism versus environment, as well as an equally vast array of binaries, such as inside-outside, presence-absence, and male-female. They introduce the key critical ideas that transactionalism represents including emergence; living in a world without a within; the temporally and extensionally distributed nature of meaning, mind, and self. The use and elaboration of transactionalism is grounded in philosophical inquires and in empirical analyses of practices in formal and informal settings including values education, early childhood education, biology education, museum education, coding and computer science, Oceanographic and Atmospheric study, policy reform, play, and the Covid-19 pandemic.

Skolan är i kris. Skolan levererar inte det som önskas. Elever uppnår inte kunskapskraven och lärare är undermåliga. Dessa är några exempel på återkommande teman i en ofta förenklad samtida skoldebatt. Behovet av en mer nyanserad diskussion om komplexiteten i skolans problem är högst nödvändig.I Perspektiv på skolans problem identifierar ett flertal forskare problem som de menar att skolan i dag står inför. Det handlar bland annat om problem som rör demokrati, rasism, språkplikt, skolvåld, betyg, ledarskap, skolmarknaden, juridifiering, distansundervisning, förskolan, vuxenutbildningen, folkhögskolan, och inte minst skoldebatten i sig. Boken ger perspektiv genom inspel från en rad initierade och etablerade forskare från olika discipliner verksamma inom det breda utbildningsvetenskapliga fältet. Med olika nedslag i utbildningslandskapet är ambitionen att stimulera till en skoldebatt som är förankrad i aktuell forskning om skola och utbildning. Perspektiv på skolans problem vänder sig till studerande inom lärarutbildningens olika inriktningar, verksamma inom utbildningsområdet samt andra som är intresserade av debatten om skolans problem.

Miljö och hållbar utveckling hör till vår tids stora ödesfrågor, och mycket talar för att vi behöver förändra vårt samhälle och sätt att leva i grunden. Utbildningen spelar en nyckelroll i denna omställning som kräver nya kunskaper, synsätt och värderingar. Men att utbilda för förändring ställer också lärare inför nya didaktiska utmaningar.I denna bok presenteras didaktiska modeller som stödjer lärares arbete med miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning. Modellerna utgör tankeverktyg som lärare kan använda vid val av innehåll och arbetsformer när de planerar sin undervisning. Innehållet i boken bygger på didaktisk forskning som författarna har bedrivit de senaste två decennierna, och lägger särskilt fokus på de etiska och politiska aspekterna av miljö- och hållbarhetsutbildning.Didaktiska modeller för miljö och hållbarhetsutbildning vänder sig till lärarstuderande, lärarutbildare och verksamma lärare som undervisar om miljö och hållbar utveckling på grundskolans högstadium, gymnasiet och inom högre utbildning och folkbildning.