Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung – Lehramt Realschule at University of Regensburg

Education for Sustainable Development as an extension subject for the Realschule teaching degree in Bavaria. Extension study qualifying teachers at special-needs, primary, Mittel-, Realschulen and Gymnasien to plan, implement and develop education processes on sustainability; students work on central ecological, social and economic challenges. In Regensburg it can only be studied as an extension subject.

Faculty: Faculty of Human Sciences  |  Duration: 3 semesters (45 ECTS)  |  Study mode: full-time (also available part-time alongside work); extension subject only; Staatsexamen; German-taught and English-taught  |  Intake: Winter and summer semester  |  Location: Regensburg, Bayern, Germany

What you will study

Extension subject (Erweiterungsfach) added to the regular subject combination. Compulsory placements for all teaching degrees: an orientation placement (three to four weeks), an eight-week work placement (also possible abroad), a pedagogical-didactic school placement (150-160 teaching hours, 6 ECTS) and a study-accompanying placement. Content: knowledge of concepts and theories of sustainable development, insight into the foundations and didactics of ESD, skills to analyse global and local transformation processes and to develop sustainability-oriented teaching concepts; the extension subject takes about 3 semesters.

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