This unique volume utilises the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning.
This unique volume utilizes the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) framework to illustrate successful integration of sustainability education in post-secondary foreign language (FL) learning.
Showcasing a variety of approaches to using content-based instruction (CBI) in college-level courses, this text valuably demonstrates how topics relating to environmental, social, and cultural dimensions of sustainability can be integrated in FL curricula. Chapters draw on case studies from colleges throughout the US and consider theoretical and practical concerns relating to models of sustainability-based teaching and learning. Chapters present examples of project-, problem-, and task-based approaches, as well as field work, debate, and reflective pedagogies to enhance students’ awareness and engagement with sustainable development issues as they acquire a foreign language. Insights and recommendations apply across languages and highlight the potential contribution of FL learning to promote sustainability literacy amongst learners.
This text will benefit researchers, academics, and educators in higher education with an interest in Modern Foreign Languages, sustainability education, training, and leadership more broadly.
Introduction: What is Education for Sustainable Development (EDS) and
Why Should it be Integrated in College Foreign Language Curricula? Part 1:
Approaches to Integrating Education for Sustainable Development into Foreign
Language Curricula
1. Sustainability and the Pluriverse: from Environmental
Humanities Theory to Content-Based Instruction in Spanish Curricula
2.
Multiliteracies Pedagogy: Theory to Practice for Scaffolding Sustainability
Literacies
3. Project-Based Language Learning: Addressing Cultural and
Linguistic Diversity Issues in Climate Action
4. Problem-Based Pedagogy for
the Advanced College Language Curriculum: Becoming a Multicompetent Language
User through Sustainability Education Part 2: Implementing
Sustainability-Based Curricular Initiatives in Foreign Language Education
5.
Engaging Students with Social, Cultural, and Environmental Sustainability
Topics in the Spanish-Speaking World: A Reimagined Beginning Spanish
Curriculum
6. Beyond the Language Requirement: Implementing
Sustainability-Based Fl Education in the Spanish Foundations Program
7.
Toward the Greening of the Intermediate French Language Curriculum
8. Toward
Sustainability in German Curricula Part 3: Exploring Interdisciplinary
Collaborations toward Sustainability Education in FL Programs
9.
Cross-Disciplinarity at the Core: Teaching Sustainability in a Business
German Course
10. Content-Based Instruction in a Spanish Language Classroom:
Climate, Identity, and Historical Patterns of Latin American Migration to the
United States
11. Sustainability across the Curriculum: A Multilingual and
Intercultural Approach
12. Translanguaging in Language and Area-Studies
Curriculum: A Japanese FLAC Course of Minamata and Fukushima in Environmental
Humanities Conclusion
María J. de la Fuente is Professor of Spanish in the Department of Romance, German, and Slavic Languages and Literatures at The George Washington University, USA.
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