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Otto's Journey: Education for Sustainable Development

Follow Otto, a cod in the North Sea, facing environmental challenges. Learn how schools in Norway empower students to contribute to society through interdisciplinary teaching methods. Join the international support system to tackle global issues. Contact us for more information.

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Otto's Journey: Education for Sustainable Development

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  1. A potential international support system for Education for Sustainable Development

  2. Meet Otto a cod, in the North Sea • Environmental challenges for Otto first weeks: • Born with toxic chemicals • Feeds on microlayer, highly contaminated • UV-radiation affects his growth • Nutrients produces toxic algae's, reduces his food • Climate change changes his feeding areas • After some months: • Very difficult to get away from the industrial fleet • Moves coast outside Africa • Meets Helen, just to become father – no success • Caught by the EU fleet • Sold as ecological sound product due to new fishing gears

  3. Lessons learned in Norway • Pupils experience that they are able to contribute something useful to society. They do “real work” and produce high-quality results. • Impressive concrete results can be achieved when many schools join together • Better learning and working environment when the school leadership, maintenance people, teachers and pupils co-operate.

  4. Lessons learned in Norway • The Network gives legitimacy to interdisciplinary, action-oriented teaching methods. Teachers and schools receive the support they need for these learning approaches. • Co-operation with “heavy” ministries and research/scientific institutions lends credibility to the school’s work. • The network creates win-win situations between the schools and other parts of the society

  5. Utilise the learning

  6. First prototype of an international edition developed

  7. Builds on Norwegian web solution

  8. Good mixture of thematic issues? • Biological diversity • Climate and air quality • Consumption and resources • Democracy and participation • Energy and renewable resources • Water issues

  9. How to proceed? The Norwegian Directorate is open for: • Maintain the solution at our current servers for international use • Make this prototype into an ENSI ICT operational “product” – thereby also basis for ENSI evaluation projects later • Develop it further in 2006 with active involvement from other countries • Establish an international operational editorial board

  10. Contact information: Astrid Sandås, Directorate for Primary and Secondary EducationAstrid.Sandas@utdanningsdirektoratet.no: +47 23 30 13 18 Geir Endregard, NILUgen@nilu.no: +47 63 80 81 10 Brage Frøland, School laboratory Univ. in Bergen brage@uib.no: +47 55 58 24 15

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