Zero waste training handbook
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Kuupäev
2022
Kättesaadav alates
Autorid
Kalle, Kadri
Arro, Grete
Kriipsalu, Mait
McQuibban, Jack
Kranjc, Jaka
Žnajder, Žaklina
Kenk, Kadi
Ajakirja pealkiri
Ajakirja ISSN
Köite pealkiri
Kirjastaja
BEZWA projekt (Building a European Zero Waste Academy)
Abstrakt
“Once we adopt a new view of the world (or any part of it), we immediately lose
much of our ability to recall what we used to believe before our mind changed.“
Daniel Kahneman
This quote by Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman can be understood in two ways, at least. One is that by expanding our knowledge and understanding, these new views become an integral part of us. This gives us hope that once we adopt the zero waste mindset, it becomes hard for us to imagine a different way of managing resources. But the second side of it is that the more we become experts in something, paradoxically the harder it becomes for us to teach and explain it to those who don’t yet understand it. Our system of knowledge (known also as mental models) becomes more and more complex, and at the same time it becomes compact, packed like a ZIP file, where details that are important for the beginner to make sense of things are faded in the background. The steps in our thinking process flow so smoothly that we ourselves do not notice it anymore. As experts we need to unpack our way of thinking in order to help beginners become experts more easily. We have attempted this when creating this handbook and the Zero Waste Ambassador and Trainer curricula. The aim of this handbook is to support the implementation of the Zero Waste Ambassador and Trainer curricula, with the overall goal to strengthen and spread zero waste competences among changemakers across Europe, helping to empower them to support and drive their communities towards long term systemic change. Whereas the curricula describe the set up, structure and reasons for selecting certain topics and competences into the training courses, this handbook goes deeper into the topics themselves and offers some exercises and materials to anyone wanting to train Zero Waste Ambassadors and/or Trainers. Since the teaching principles described in this handbook are quite universal, then this handbook can be useful also to anyone wishing to improve their teaching, especially in complex problems such as many environmental issues.
This quote by Nobel Prize winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman can be understood in two ways, at least. One is that by expanding our knowledge and understanding, these new views become an integral part of us. This gives us hope that once we adopt the zero waste mindset, it becomes hard for us to imagine a different way of managing resources. But the second side of it is that the more we become experts in something, paradoxically the harder it becomes for us to teach and explain it to those who don’t yet understand it. Our system of knowledge (known also as mental models) becomes more and more complex, and at the same time it becomes compact, packed like a ZIP file, where details that are important for the beginner to make sense of things are faded in the background. The steps in our thinking process flow so smoothly that we ourselves do not notice it anymore. As experts we need to unpack our way of thinking in order to help beginners become experts more easily. We have attempted this when creating this handbook and the Zero Waste Ambassador and Trainer curricula. The aim of this handbook is to support the implementation of the Zero Waste Ambassador and Trainer curricula, with the overall goal to strengthen and spread zero waste competences among changemakers across Europe, helping to empower them to support and drive their communities towards long term systemic change. Whereas the curricula describe the set up, structure and reasons for selecting certain topics and competences into the training courses, this handbook goes deeper into the topics themselves and offers some exercises and materials to anyone wanting to train Zero Waste Ambassadors and/or Trainers. Since the teaching principles described in this handbook are quite universal, then this handbook can be useful also to anyone wishing to improve their teaching, especially in complex problems such as many environmental issues.
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Märksõnad
waste, waste treatment, circular economy, sustainability, education for sustainable development, environmental education, teaching methods, teaching methodology, handbooks