{"id":197,"date":"2020-09-30T16:21:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-30T13:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heschel.org.il\/en\/?page_id=197"},"modified":"2024-11-05T19:13:20","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:13:20","slug":"promoting-education-for-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heschel.org.il\/en\/impact\/promoting-education-for-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"Promoting Education for Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Tevel Project, a collaboration between the Heschel Center for Sustainability and the Ministry of Education, is an innovative initiative focused on redefining the role of education in addressing climate change. The project aims to embed sustainability challenges into the educational core, preparing educators to handle complex environmental and social issues. Through encouraging systemic thinking, developing new educational policies, and implementing tangible solutions, Tevel seeks to transform education into a force for societal change. By bridging climate-related challenges with educational methods, the program aspires to create graduates equipped to lead impactful change in society.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Despite its modest size, the Heschel Center is one of the most prominent players in creating and leading the conceptual and practical aspects of environmental education and sustainability education in Israel. Before the Heschel Center, there were field schools run by the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel. These dealt with ecological education, nature experiences and \u201cknowledge of the Land,\u201d also devoting a small amount of attention to the topic of environmental protection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

The first major contribution that the Heschel Center contributed to environmental activity in Israel was what we call the “third paradigm” (or broad sustainability). The approach clarifies the difference between “nature conservation” (the first paradigm), which focuses on nature\u00a0<\/span>(versus humans), biodiversity, and open spaces and the second paradigm, “environmental quality,” whose main concern is depletion of resources and pollution of air and water.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The third paradigm approach, which emphasizes the entire society, active citizenship and broad community-based sustainability work, began to spread, with the establishment of the Green Network led by Fellows alumnus Dr. David Dunetz and in cooperation with the Karev Program\u00a0<\/span>(CRB). This network now includes over 600 schools and kindergartens around the country, Jews and Arabs, center and periphery, that deal with environmental education and community projects. The network has made a number of significant contributions to the educational system, including the development of children’s leadership (including a National Children’s Conference), and inculcating the understanding that it is necessary to develop an in-school capability to lead sustainability as an ‘interdisciplinary’ framework. One of the milestones for this achievement was a founding conference of the Heschel Center for Environmental Education in Ashkelon in 2008,\u00a0<\/span>in which more than 100 people participated, including professional supervisors and educators.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Representing our mission to broaden access to sustainability in education, the Heschel Center expanded its reach this past year by designing an online course titled “Sustainability: Challenges and Solutions” for the Academic\u00a0<\/span>College<\/span>\u00a0of Tel Aviv-Yafo. Produced by Nuelle Maor and presented by Dr. Jeremy Benstein, the course explores vital sustainability topics such as climate science, urban environments, sustainable economics, and food systems. Designed for\u00a0<\/span>college<\/span>\u00a0students, the course is conducted in English and engages diverse audiences through seven online lessons, two live classes, and two field trips demonstrating sustainability in urban settings. This initiative marks a significant step in extending sustainability knowledge to wider communities.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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As it does in its other areas of interest, the Heschel Center developed environmental education in the encounter between ideas and people, as in the course for school principals, and in the promotion of local sustainability education: an integrative approach that connects local authorities to the local heritage and local nature and environment, and networks between schools and the community. Moreover, we did not stop there. We also initiated an initiative with the Kibbutzim College and the Institute for Democratic Education to create an undergraduate program in democratic environmental education, led by Eran Benyamini. Additional Heschel staff members David Dunetz and Shachar Kahanovich helped the College became the leading institution in the field of environmental education and sustainability, with accreditation as a \u201cGreen Campus,\u201d a course for sustainability leaders on campus, also influencing the decision to adopt a stringent standard of green building on the new campus now being built. Finally, in the last few years, we have been training teachers in several iterations of an online course on globalization, climate change and education for civic engagement.<\/p>

These contributions have led to the wholesale adoption of education for sustainability in the education system: the “Ministers\u2019 Program,” which became the integrated program that spread sustainability education to school staff throughout the country.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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