Training teachers committed to climate change mitigation

Abstract

The environmental crisis, caused by unsustainable development and an unjust model, requires a global change in a political, social and environmental context. To promote this change we need to redirect Higher Education to train citizens to be able to make responsible decisions and act in a sustainable way. This requires educational initiatives promoted by universities to redirect teacher training towards sustainability. With this objective we present and focus a teacher training proposal based on treating the problems of Climate Change, the climate education and the development of teaching skills. Its purpose is to enable students of the Faculty of Education Sciences, future teaching staff, to participate, individually and collectively, in improving this socio-environmental problem of a local and global nature, which also has a multiplier effect for society in their later professional development. The proposal is based on a holistic and participatory methodology, promoting the development of sustainable skills, participation, information processing, critical thinking and autonomous and informed decision-making using ICTs and a platform providing distance learning. The experience can be the foundation for future proposals in different contexts and for different professional profiles.