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I started with the idea of abandoning old stereotypes on teaching books and tried to present a useful content, some humor in between, with beautiful pictures framing examples, that would encourage engaging, with real role models of multicultural background. I thought people, no matter where they from or their background, deserve a chance in life, and they should look up to good role models as they could potentially become one themselves.
ex: Identity
To be true, I didn't know what the hell I was doing, cause I've never had taught before, and I'm sure I'ts filled with mistakes that should be supervised by someone else. But I wasn't expecting the feedback I got. People wrote me from all over the world, especially from the "less developed" countries thanking me. Teachers, students or merely curiouses wrote personal letters thanking me, telling me how useful they are, to children and grown ups.
This, to me, is sustainability in social equality, in environment protection and in economic progression, as those people will get a chance to make something for themselves, people that did not had chance to learn otherwise, without a huge carbon footprint.
Now, with the course on Sustainability, Society and You, I think that I learn a lot about sustainability, especially awareness about thing that I didn't put in the equation, like the carbon footprint on internet servers, or how sustainability isn't adverse to economy, as SWOT reports showed us, but an integrated part of it, or the knowledge of where do our electrical power comes from and how much is wasted on the process. All of this could be integrated in a Portuguese learning course to foreign people, quite easily.
I started with the idea of abandoning old stereotypes on teaching books and tried to present a useful content, some humor in between, with beautiful pictures framing examples, that would encourage engaging, with real role models of multicultural background. I thought people, no matter where they from or their background, deserve a chance in life, and they should look up to good role models as they could potentially become one themselves.
ex: Identity
To be true, I didn't know what the hell I was doing, cause I've never had taught before, and I'm sure I'ts filled with mistakes that should be supervised by someone else. But I wasn't expecting the feedback I got. People wrote me from all over the world, especially from the "less developed" countries thanking me. Teachers, students or merely curiouses wrote personal letters thanking me, telling me how useful they are, to children and grown ups.
This, to me, is sustainability in social equality, in environment protection and in economic progression, as those people will get a chance to make something for themselves, people that did not had chance to learn otherwise, without a huge carbon footprint.
Now, with the course on Sustainability, Society and You, I think that I learn a lot about sustainability, especially awareness about thing that I didn't put in the equation, like the carbon footprint on internet servers, or how sustainability isn't adverse to economy, as SWOT reports showed us, but an integrated part of it, or the knowledge of where do our electrical power comes from and how much is wasted on the process. All of this could be integrated in a Portuguese learning course to foreign people, quite easily.
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