Promoting Teacher Education for Climate Change Education throughCollaboration between Asian Centres of Excellence on
Education for Sustainable Development (ATECCE)
Second Meeting － Friday, 24 September 2021
ZOOM
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India: 9:30-12:30
Kazakhstan: 10:00-13:00
Indonesia and Thailand: 11:00-14:00
China, Malaysia, Mongolia and Philippines: 12:00-15:00
Japan: 13:00-16:00
1. Background
Recognizing the crucial role of teacher education to climate change and climate crisis, we havelaunched a new project entitled “Promoting Teacher Education for Climate Change Education throughCollaboration between Asian Centres of Excellence on Education for Sustainable Development(ATECCE)” in March 2021, with the cooperation of UNESCO Bangkok and UNESCO Beijing and thesupport of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. The objectives of this project are to create aframework for the teacher education programme for Climate Change Education (CCE) in Asia,
develop a dissemination guide for the framework, and promote mainstreaming CCE in teacher
education.
At the first meeting of the project in March 2021, we shared the current state of teacher educationfor CCE in participating countries and institutions, as well as a general outline of the project. We thencreated action plans to implement teacher education for CCE. Documents related to these activities
can be found on the following websites (http://ceteesd.ed.okayama-u.ac.jp/atecce/atecce.html).
Highlighting the trends of ESD and CCE during this period, the UNESCO hold a World Conferenceon Education for Sustainable Development in May 2021 to launch a new framework “ESD for 2030”.
The discussions at the conference focused specifically on climate change education. In addition, theOECD, Education International and UNESCO have launched the “Teaching for Climate Action
Initiative” in July 2021 to gather and curate ideas and insights on climate action from teachers aroundthe world (https://www.globalteachinginsights.org/). In light of these situation, we need to accelerate
the project even further, and this is our responsibility to be involved in teacher education.

2. Objectives
The objectives of the second meeting are to introduce on-going practices and prospects of teacher
education for CCE based on the created action plans. Plans for CCE surveys for students andteachers, development of pre-service teacher training programmes and courses on CCE, CCE
workshops for in-service teachers, etc. will be shared. Following this, the meeting will coordinate shortto medium-term objectives and action plans to achieve them in order to further advance the project.
3. Tentative Agenda
1) Welcome2) Sharing on-going practices and prospects
Participants from teacher education institutions will prepare and have a 15-minute presentation foreach country. The presentation will be a variety of initiatives being developed in each country andinstitution according to the objectives of this project.
3) Discussion on ways forward4) Closing
Secretariat
Hiroki Fujii, Director / Professor, Okayama University ESD Promotion Centre
Email hfujii@okayama-u.ac.jp Telephone +81-86-251-7637
Megumi Hasegawa (Ms), Secretary, Okayama University ESD Promotion Centre
Email hasegawa-m@okayama-u.ac.jp Telephone +81-86-251-7637