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Advanced Education for Sustainable Development Training of Trainers was held from 2-4 December 2009 in Yogyakarta.
This training was the third in series that HSF and Systainability Asia have jointly conducted since 2007. The first two trainings were held in Ubud, Bali in 2007in cooperation with Botanical Garden of Ubud and in Bandung in 2008 in cooperation with Bandung-based NGO, YPBB, respectively. The training served change agents, representatives of universities, NGOs, Ministries of National Education and Environment and teachers.
Robert Steele, a noted and experienced expert on ESD in region acted as a trainer. A total of 25 participants attended the training, coming from WWF, NGOs (RMI, BIMA, PPLH Bali, PPLH Seloliman, KPAI, Yawama, YPBB), Gajah Mada University, Junior and Senior High Schools’ Teachers, Ministry of National Education, University of Satya Wacana, Indonesian NGO Networks, State University of Yogyakarta, State University of Menado, Ministry of Environment and University of Surakarta. Twelve out of total participants were female, and eleven were new faces to the training.
The training is to respond to the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development 2005-2014. The training aimed at enhancing participants’ skills in developing assessment’s indicators of their respective ESD targets. Its results should be presented in the final review of the decade as a country report on ESD development that will be held in 2014 in Japan.
Among other delivered materials were “Fundamentals of Equipping Teachers for Sustainable Development Education”, “Why do we need Education for Sustainable Development?”, “Developing Competencies for ESD Teachers in Indonesia”, “ESD Teaching and Facilitation Methods and Lesson Planning”, “ESD Lesson Teaching Practicum”, “Reorienting Education towards Local and Global Sustainability”, “Recommended Strategies for the Way Forward”, “Education for Sustainable Development Indicators”, “SWOT Analysis of Key Education Reorientation Strategies for Indonesia”, “Introduction to Diffusion Innovation Theory” and “Renewable Energy for Sustainable Development”. The last topic was delivered by Peter Troegel, an intern at HSF.
Groups of lecturers, teachers and NGOs have undertaken exercises to develop their respective ESD indicators during the working groups.
