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A Rounder Sense of Purpose : A competence framework on sustainability and well-being

Explore a comprehensive competence framework that integrates sustainability and well-being. Discover 12 essential competences, including systems thinking, criticality, empathy, and engagement. Develop agency in meaningful community-based change projects. Visit our website for more information.

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A Rounder Sense of Purpose : A competence framework on sustainability and well-being

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  1. A Rounder Sense of Purpose:A competence framework on sustainability and well-being Dr Paul Vare School of Education UCET Annual ConferenceStratford-upon-Avon 6-7 November 2018

  2. Don’t lose sight of hope! Martin Luther King did NOT say… “I have a nightmare…”

  3. We ‘distilled’ the 39 UNECE competences Refining, filtering, extracting the essentialelements to define 12 competences (Also using Wieket al 2011 & Roorda 2012)

  4. A Rounder Sense of Purpose – Phase I

  5. Systems – helping learners to see that everything is connected and how this impacts our lives Attentiveness – researching issues to discover their importance, impact and possibilities for change Transdisciplinarity – working together with people from different backgrounds Criticality– asking why things are as they are, checking sources, recognising perspectives Futures– imagining different possibilities for the future and describing their consequences Empathy – understanding the centrality of emotions to learning; seeing situations as others do

  6. Innovation– considering new ideas while learning from the past Responsibility – being personally responsible and transparent in how we work Participation– collaborating with others to improve the places where we live and work Engagement– working from ‘who I am’ recognising my values and those held by others Action– developing agency through involvement in meaningful, community-based change projects Decisiveness– acting in good time, even when faced with dilemmas or situations of uncertainty.

  7. “As soon as you start to teach one of the competences, you inevitably touch on the other eleven.” (Teacher in The Netherlands)

  8. The RSP Pallet

  9. A Rounder Sense of Purpose website: www.aroundersenseofpurpose.eu

  10. A Rounder Sense of Purpose – Phase II

  11. RSP2 Alignment with OECD’s E2030 framework?

  12. Thank you If you have any further comments or questions, please come and talk or contact me at: pvare@glos.ac.uk

  13. References • A Rounder Sense of Purpose website: www.aroundersenseofpurpose.eu • RoordaN (2012) Fundamentals of Sustainable Development. London: Earthscan • Scott W & Vare P (2018) The World We’ll Leave Behind: grasping the sustainability challenge. London: Routledge • Wiek, Arnim, Lauren Withycombe, and Charles L. Redman. 2011. Key Competencies in Sustainability: A Reference Framework for Academic Program Development. Sustainability Science 6(2): 203–18 • UNECE (2011) Learning for the future: Competences in Education for Sustainable Development. Geneva: UNECE

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