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Education for Sustainable Development in Mongolia

The second training session on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) held in Khovd aimag, 24-28 November 2008

ESD training in November, 2008

WWF Mongolia organized the second mobile training session on ESD in Khovd aimag from 24th to 28th November within the framework of Land of the Snow Leopards project activities. The first session (last September) focused on introducing the concept of ESD in some soums while in others the emphasis was on supporting further and deeper development towards ESD, especially in terms of connecting school work to the local communities.

This time, the training focused more on practical exercises as well as analysing the curricula developed by teachers, working on recommendations for their improvement. For detailed report please click here

Mobile training sessions on ESD in Khovd aimag

Education for Sustainable Development training in Khovd aimag

WWF Mongolia organized mobile training sessions on ESD in Khovd aimag from 28th September to 2 October 2008 within the framework of Land of the Snow Leopards project activities. The training has involved specialists from Khovd and Gobi-Altai aimag’s Education departments, teachers from aimag’s centres’ schools and managers as well as all teachers from Mankhan, Zereg, Darvi and Chandmani soums school. The sessions were conducted and lead by Mr. Staffan Swanberg, expert from Ramboll Natura AB and Ms. B.Battsetseg, methodologist from the Science Education Center, Mongolian National University.  

 

The outcome is expected to be imminent. Participants acquired basic knowledge on what ESD is meant to provide as well as the fundamentals of the sustainable development concepts. The traning has doublefold importance considering the ongoing process of transition to the new educational system in Mongolia. The session programmes differ from each other taking into consideration the knowledge and experience disparity of target audiences. We aimed at introducing the concept of Education for Sustainable Development to support the schools to become pilot schools in Darvi and Zereg soums, while in Mankhan and Chandmani sum schools the focus was to support further and deeper development towards ESD, especially in terms of connecting school work to the local communities. A program to introduce entrepreneurship in form of small scale business was introduced to this end as well.

 

Furthermore, newly published ESD training materials and handbooks for teachers were distributed which is fairly important for local educators.

 

The next training sessions are planned to be carried out end of November this year with two more sessions for the upcoming year. The “school centered” teacher training seminars are expected to help educators to improve their teaching method and explore their own capability to solve local and school problems, to learn for sustainable development process, integrate ESD principles into their schools.

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UN Decade for Education for Sustainable Development (2005-2014)
In 2002, WWF Mongolia formulated a project that focuses on  environmental education in Mongolian secondary schools. The ultimate goal of the project is to support sustainable use of natural resources in Mongolia.

The focus of the project has been on the wider concept of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) where environment is included along with social and economic perspectives.

The foundation for the project is the national network of teams created in all aimags (provinces) in Mongolia. Those teams function as clusters of expertise and experience in how to apply educational approaches that favour sustainable development and increase environmental awareness.

To further strengthen the support to the education system a network of pilot schools have been created in the Altai-Sayan Ecoregion where teams apply whole-school development principles. 

The teams consist of people working with different school subjects and representatives from the formal as well as from the non-formal school system. Around 132 teachers, covering all aimags, have been engaged in developing national standards.

A very positive response
The overall result of the programme has been very good and the Mongolian Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and other stakeholders have expressed a lot of interest. The wide national acceptance of the approaches developed indicate that the impact of this short term project can have a sustainable impact.

Support and expertise from Sweden
The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) provide financial assistance and Swedish company Ramboll Natura AB was given the contract to contribute international expertise to facilitate the process of developing human and institutional capacities and education methods and material in Mongolia.

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