Dig In: Introducing Sustainable Development through Activities
May 2, 2016How Do We Educate for Sustainable Development?
May 16, 2016Digging Deeper with Dig In
2016 is CISV’s year for Sustainable Development. Throughout the year, we will bring you ideas, discussion pieces, materials and resources to help you to explore, educate on, and take action toward Sustainable Development in your Chapter or Programme.
Oh hello again!
If you are keeping up with this blog and reading the previous posts, you will know that Dig In is the educational content area project of the year, developed by members of International Junior Branch. On the previous blog post, Dig In was described and its’ aim of introducing CISVers all over the world to sustainable development. In our second step, we focus on social sustainability, which together with ecological and economic aspects, make up sustainable development. An interesting subtopic for this is education.
Quality education is the fourth Sustainable Development Goal, and one of the main topics for CISV’s activities – we educate and inspire for a more just and peaceful world, right? However, what is it exactly that differentiates CISV’s methods of teaching and learning from others’? what is the relation between sustainability and education?, and how can we complement our CISV attitudes, skills and knowledge with alternative education methods? The participants are challenged to ponder these and other questions, to develop a deeper and critical idea of what education is and how it can most effectively be done.
This sure sounds interesting, doesn’t it? We in the Dig In team are also actively working on new and creative ways to incorporate social media into the activities to help CISV not only to do good, but to also make sure it’s being seen! Hopefully this can lead to a greater feeling of being part of a global movement, through observing others discussing the same topics as you and the networks that creates. No need to worry though if you’re not connected to the internet – there’s always an optional, offline alternative provided.
Yours,
The Dig In team
on behalf of the Sustainable Development Team
The Sustainable Development Team includes members of CISV’s Educational Programmes Committee, Kompaz Project, International Junior Branch Team, Communications Team, and the International Office. Our team coordinator is Madeleine Le Bourdon.
