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The seminar/workshop will be designed to engage teachers, students and governmental and NGO conference participants in the process of thinking about, designing and implementing constructivist sustainable development learning projects. Ideas about how constructivist (project based) learning enhances learning through the additional inputs of kinesthetic activity and acting upon learners’ beliefs and values can enhance the intake, retention (imprint), associative abilities (with other aspects of learner’s body of knowledge), and Dr. Chris .Unger calls the learners’ sense of “agency and possibility” in life- their belief that their life can matter because they have acquired the knowledge tools to add something of value to the world.
The workshop will utilize elements from The 1420 Foundation’s “Framework for the Development of (Sustainable Development) Pedagogy, to engage seminar/workshop participants in the development of their various ideas about what constitutes effective strategies for engaging and teaching students in a project to acquire knowledge while implementing a ‘real world’ project that furthers sustainability in their physical and/or cultural environment
Ideas of project topic development, realistic scope, technology and other project resource selection and availability, technical experts to maximize depth of learning and project quality and ‘real world’ impact, and anticipated outcomes and impact- are all elements in the creation of a constructivist learning-by-doing project.
The workshop will then introduce various ideas of possible instructional designs and encourage participants to participate in the process of framing instructional designs for a constructivist sustainable development leaning/building project
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