SHINE – mainstreaming Systems tHinking In Natural sciences and Environmental education

Description

Education for sustainable development equips learners with the knowledge, skills, values and agency needed to address interconnected global challenges, including climate change. Teachers therefore need effective strategies, methodologies and tools to help students understand and respond to this complexity.

Systems Thinking (ST) is a key competence for sustainable development. It enables learners to see both the individual elements of a system and the relationships between them, understand how events evolve over time, and explore how changes in one area can affect the whole system.

SHINE aims to integrate Systems Thinking into natural science and environmental education for students aged 8 to 16. The project trains in-service teachers and develops, validates and tests innovative educational tools that support the practical application of ST in science and ecology classrooms.

By introducing a new language for understanding how the world works, SHINE helps teachers and students move beyond linear explanations and explore cause-and-effect relationships, feedback loops and the structures that drive change within complex natural systems.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.