UNESCO

11th International Conference on Biodiversity Research (ICBR 2022) took place in Daugavpils, Latvia from 20 – 22 October 2022. During the conference, in cooperation with the DU UNESCO Chair and members of the International Network of the Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability, was organized a conference section Towards more personal and integrated understanding of the sustainability phenomenon for teacher and higher education. Participants of the section looked at the value of diversity from the perspectives of JTES researchers’ experiences in reorienting teacher and higher education toward sustainability.

The problem of invasive alien species from an educational point of view

Magdalena Valverde Pérez, Isabel Baños González, Patricia Esteve Guirao, Ana Ruíz Navarro / Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales. Facultad de Educación. Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Modal Verbs in Discursive Constructions of Environmental Issues by Greta Thunberg

Oleksandr Kapranov / NLA University College, campus Oslo, Norway

Training primary and kindergarten teachers with pedagogical skills to promote ecocentric education

Maria Eduarda Ferreira, António Costa / Polytechnic of Guarda, Portugal; Rui Pitarma / Polytechnic of Guarda; CISE – Electro-mechatronic Systems Research Centre, Universidadeda Beira Interior, Portugal

Teacher’s Professional Competence and the Attractiveness of Workplace Environment in the Context of Sustainable Development

Mārīte Kravale-Pauliņa, Ilona Fjodorova, Eridiana Oļehnoviča / Center of Sustainable Education, Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences, Daugavpils University, Latvia

A way to organize botanical field practices for university students in conditions of pandemics or/and wars

Mykyta Peregrym / Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine; Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia Ingrid Turisová / Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia Nataliia Matsai, Yuliia Havryliuk / Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, Ukraine Alexander Tashev / University of Forestry, Bulgaria Erika Pénzesné Kónya / Eszterházy Károly Catholic University, Hungary

How do future Primary school teachers face the problem of biodiversity loss related to food consumption?

Isabel Banos-González, Patricia Esteve-Guirao, Magdalena Valverde-Pérez / Departamento de Didáctica de las Ciencias Experimentales, University of Murcia (Spain)

An Ecocriticism Course and Its Development of English Pre-service Teachers’ Pedagogical Content Knowledge of Sustainability (PCKS)

Jepri Ali Saiful / College of Social Sciences, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan; Ari Setyorini / Department of English Education, Muhammadiyah University of Surabaya, Indonesia

Laima Āboliņa

Secretary of the UNITWIN UNESCO Chair at

Daugavpils University

Email: laima.abolina@du.lv