GENERAL AIM In order to effectively answer to the motivation and to the needs identified the GoGreen! Project aimed at redefining disciplinary programs and educational methods in order to contribute to promoting the awareness of schools communities about environmental issues and sustainable development through the promotion of a transdisciplinary approaches and problem-based learning. SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES To pursue its aims the consortium identified and defined the the following specific objectives: SO 1: Training secondary school teachers of all subjects to make them able to insert environmental issues in their teaching practice and be protagonists of the implementation of an effective transdisciplinary approach in addressing environmental issues at school. SO 2: Providing secondary school teachers with Lesson Plans based on a transdisciplinary approach and problem-based learning teaching tools taking the form of fully scientifically reliable yet easily implementable in-class activities. SO 3: Developing a Pilot Syllabus for teaching Environmental Sustainability at school according to the fruitful combination of transdisciplinary and problem-based learning approaches.
The starting point and main motivation of the GoGreen! Consortium was the shared belief among the involved schools of their duty to educate new generations to an integrated and sustainable vision of economic development and to motivate new generations to better understand the impact of their behaviours by making them more aware of the consequences that their actions could have on the future. To achieve this ambitious aim the schools, sharing the idea with the experts decided to explore and answer to the students need to learn to face complexity as if every choice can produce different and multifaceted effects the picture can be understood only through a journey, the GOGreen! Actors identified and called “trans-disciplinarity”. Within the context, the following pressing needs were selected as most relevant: - Cover teachers knowledge and methodological gaps that make them not sufficiently prepared to address the issue - Explore the use of transdisciplinary based validated teaching tools on the theme of sustainability development - Build a syllabus to transversally introduce sustainability topics in schools curricular activities