Enhancing skills development for sustainability

This contribution focuses on some results of the project Erasmus+ “Constructing a Green Wave in VET – A New SDG Perspective”. This project aligns with the priorities of the new Erasmus+ program for environmental sustainability and UN objective 4.7, which aims to guarantee that all students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to promote sustainable development and global citizenship. The final output of the project is the creation of a common pedagogical and didactic model to teach sustainability in Vet schools across the European countries involved in the project. The Green Wave VET project aims to explore and improve the integration of sustainable education in Professional and Technical Training (VET) contexts. Focusing on how the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) can be implemented in construction and education sector. University of Bari, elaborating the PDM, focused on three actions: (1) mapping existing educational approaches about sustainability in VET contexts and the analysis of emerging needs; (2) the understanding of how VET contexts promote sustainable education; (3) exploring ways to work effectively with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS). The PDM bases its innovative character on one hand, stimulating the development of critical and creative-constructive skills to face the new challenges of sustainability; on the other hand, offering an innovative pedagogical-didactic model for teachers, aimed at the creation of new contents relating to sustainability and at the development, in a metacognitive sense, of the pre-conditions that allow us to think and build sustainability.

Alessia Scarinci is full professor of Research Methodology in Education at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Salento. She conducts studies in the field of environmental education and sustainable development. Her research interests include sustainability education, educational technologies and the study of media and technologies applied to teaching.

Anna Daniela Savino is a research fellow in Didactics and Special Pedagogy at the University of Bari, Department For.Psi.Com. She conducts studies in the field of Learning Theories with particular attention to the involvement of the emotional-affective Systems, contemporary Teacher Education, relationality competencies, Leadership and Soft skills, including the field of Sport science.