Priority Areas in Earth Education for Sustainable Societies

• Developing literacy or framework documents
• Teaching resources and Program models
• Strategies for supporting local community action
• Place-based education
• Building effective communication skills: social media and other strategies
• Engaging adult learners
• Building capacity for discussing difficult topics
• Working across the learning ecosystem
• Using and valuing multiple modes of inquiry
• Building support for change
• Building capacity for interdisciplinary work for students and educators
• Building institutional structures to facilitate earth education
• Empower students with solutions
• Preparing a workforce for sustainable societies
• Enabling earth education to get to all people
• Building educator topical expertise
• Building educator pedagogical expertise
• Engage in educational research that supports earth education for sustainable societies
• Building educator expertise to work with communities
• Empowering students to act

Authors

The 2019 Earth Education for Sustainable Societies workshop brought together diverse participants to contribute to a community vision , set, and begin to collaboratively work in one or more of those areas.