C7 - How can social sustainability reduce climate change - Finland
Short-term exchange of groups of pupils
15th to 19th May 2023
Hyvinkaa | Finland
Hyvinkaa | Finland
Day 1 - 15th May
Please find two documents on our school:
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Day 2 - 16th May
Shaping our mindsets towards a sustainable way of life
If we hope to make a change in the world, we should make the first change in our mindsets. We need to be hopeful, optimistic and have a sense of agency towards difficulties to be able to solve our biggest problems. For this to happen, our core needs, the core foundations for learning, must be in good balance.
Our common goal is to develop our transformative competences which help us solve the social and environmental problems of today and the future both locally and globally. In the image below, the OECD learning compass illustrates how learning can be navigated and our skills can be put to action.
As you can see in the image, the core foundations form a platform from which we can gather the capacity to use our transformative skills for creating new value, reconciling tensions and dilemmas, and taking responsibility. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) describes the foundations as follows:
Core foundations for 2030 are the fundamental skills, knowledge, attitudes and values that are prerequisites for further learning. They provide a basis for developing student agency and transformative competencies.
They include: - literacy and numeracy, upon which digital literacy and data literacy can be built - health foundations, including physical and mental health, and well-being - social and emotional foundations, including moral and ethics.
A similar idea is illustrated quite clearly in the Minhaj Ameen’s Circles of Compassion.
If we focus on making our core foundation strong, we have the strength to help each other and our environment. In other words, we can pass our well-being forward
Circles of Compassion. For me, “circle of compassion is a… by Minhaj Ameen Medium
In this project we would like to challenge all of you to make small mindset changes, reflect on how they affect your personal life as well as your social surroundings and report back to us about your findings.
One of the aspects of building a solid core foundation is mental health and well-being. How to create a life with energy and balance, so you also have the power to do things that are sometimes uncomfortable. Self-care is an important part of our daily routines, especially, when we find ourselves in challenging times.
The Finnish mental health organization MIELI has designed a Hand of Mental Health which shows some simple ways to take care of yourself. It encourages us to reflect on our everyday choices. Do a test! Ask yourself a question from each category and put down a finger if your answer is ”no”. Then write your signature on a paper using only your remaining fingers. How does your name look like? If your signatures varies depending on your level of self-care, how do you think it affects the other areas of your life? Are you the same when you meet your friends, teachers or relatives, if your self-care hasn’t been in balance? What kind of choices could we make to positively affect on our mental well-being? There is continued work to be done for us all every day.
References:
C. Wamsler, et al. Environmental Science and Policy 112 (2020) 227–235 https://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/core-foundations/ https://medium.com/@minhajameen/https-medium-com-minhajameen-circles-of-compassion-1a616423413f https://mieli.fi/en/?s=hand+of+mental+health&post_types%5B%5D=material#filter-results
If we hope to make a change in the world, we should make the first change in our mindsets. We need to be hopeful, optimistic and have a sense of agency towards difficulties to be able to solve our biggest problems. For this to happen, our core needs, the core foundations for learning, must be in good balance.
Our common goal is to develop our transformative competences which help us solve the social and environmental problems of today and the future both locally and globally. In the image below, the OECD learning compass illustrates how learning can be navigated and our skills can be put to action.
As you can see in the image, the core foundations form a platform from which we can gather the capacity to use our transformative skills for creating new value, reconciling tensions and dilemmas, and taking responsibility. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) describes the foundations as follows:
Core foundations for 2030 are the fundamental skills, knowledge, attitudes and values that are prerequisites for further learning. They provide a basis for developing student agency and transformative competencies.
They include: - literacy and numeracy, upon which digital literacy and data literacy can be built - health foundations, including physical and mental health, and well-being - social and emotional foundations, including moral and ethics.
A similar idea is illustrated quite clearly in the Minhaj Ameen’s Circles of Compassion.
If we focus on making our core foundation strong, we have the strength to help each other and our environment. In other words, we can pass our well-being forward
Circles of Compassion. For me, “circle of compassion is a… by Minhaj Ameen Medium
In this project we would like to challenge all of you to make small mindset changes, reflect on how they affect your personal life as well as your social surroundings and report back to us about your findings.
One of the aspects of building a solid core foundation is mental health and well-being. How to create a life with energy and balance, so you also have the power to do things that are sometimes uncomfortable. Self-care is an important part of our daily routines, especially, when we find ourselves in challenging times.
The Finnish mental health organization MIELI has designed a Hand of Mental Health which shows some simple ways to take care of yourself. It encourages us to reflect on our everyday choices. Do a test! Ask yourself a question from each category and put down a finger if your answer is ”no”. Then write your signature on a paper using only your remaining fingers. How does your name look like? If your signatures varies depending on your level of self-care, how do you think it affects the other areas of your life? Are you the same when you meet your friends, teachers or relatives, if your self-care hasn’t been in balance? What kind of choices could we make to positively affect on our mental well-being? There is continued work to be done for us all every day.
References:
C. Wamsler, et al. Environmental Science and Policy 112 (2020) 227–235 https://www.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/core-foundations/ https://medium.com/@minhajameen/https-medium-com-minhajameen-circles-of-compassion-1a616423413f https://mieli.fi/en/?s=hand+of+mental+health&post_types%5B%5D=material#filter-results
Day 3 - 17th May
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Day 4 - 18th May
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