Environmental and Sustainability Education in Francophone Europe

Introduction: environmental and sustainability education in compulsory education: challenges and practices in Francophone Europe
Alain Pache, Anne Glaudel and Christine Partoune

1. How is biodiversity understood in compulsory education textbooks? A lexicographic analysis of teaching programs in the French-speaking part of Switzerland
Catherine Audrin

2. Integration of ESD in French primary schools: for what purpose, with what form of integration and with what content?
Smail Charif

3. How do students at the end of secondary school consider the challenges of sustainable development of the Seine in France? What avenues for education?
Agnieszka Jeziorski, Marco Barroca-Paccard and Faouza Kalali

4. A sustainable development project including a role-play: analysis of teachers’ intentions to promote students’engagement
Laurence Dedieu and Elisabeth Plé

5. Climate change, a challenging topic in the French curriculum (in 7^th grade)
Eliane Perrin

6. Assessment of cross-cutting competences in education for sustainable development. Example of the Swiss research project transformations
Noémie Gey, Francine Pellaud, Gilles Blandenier, Céline Lepareur, Philippe Massiot, Rebecca Shankland and Philippe Gay

7. The role of ‘experience’ in teaching innovation in education for sustainable development in France
Céline Redondo and Caroline Ladage

8. ESD in school: Understanding French-speaking Swiss pupils’ representations of sustainability Anne-Sophie Gavin and Catherine Audrin

9. Development of teachers’ practices in the field of education for sustainable development (ESD): a discursive community of interdisciplinary practices focusing on the theme of chocolate
Justine Letouzey-Pasquier, Bertrand Gremaud, Suzy Blondin and Patrick Roy

10. Research approaches in ESD/ESE: reflections of Swiss researchers
Alain Pache, Noémie Gey, Nadia Lausselet, Yves Mühlematter, Gilles Blandenier, Philippe Massiot, Francine Pellaud and Philippe Gay

11. A five-month full-time eco-traineeship in pre-service primary school training
Christine Partoune, Anne-Catherine Grodos, Hervé Bernard and Gilles Meunier

Biography

Alain Pache is Professor of Geographical Education and Education for Sustainability at the University of Teacher Education State of Vaud, Lausanne (Switzerland). He is head of the Didactics of the Humanities and Social Sciences teaching unit and head of the International Research Laboratory on Education for Sustainability (LirED). He is also a member of the Council of the Swiss Society for Educational Research. His research focuses on teaching and learning processes in the fields of Geographical Education and Education for Sustainability, with a special interest in the role of language in the classroom and the development of children’s thinking.

Anne Glaudel is Lecturer in educational sciences at the University of Reims Champagne Ardenne (France). Based at the Centre for Studies and Research on Jobs and Professionalizations (CEREP). She focuses on the actual practices of teaching geography in the school context and on Education for the Environment and Sustainable Development. She studies language productions about space and environment: language interactions between teacher and pupils, discourse of students and teachers in vocational training, and graphic representations of pupils.

Christine Partoune is Honorary Professor-researcher of Didactics in Geography both at the University of Liège and at the Haute Ecole Libre mosane, in Liège. She is a member of the Research Center in Education and Training relating to the environment and eco-citizenship (Centr'ErE-UQAM) and of the Research Unit in Didactics and Teacher Training (Didactifen - ULiège). Her recent research focuses on environmental education, particularly on landscape education and on place-based and community-based learning.