Replikation des nationalen BNE-Indikators für Lehrkräftefortbildungen (BILF Pro)

Abstract

The important role of indicators in the process of ESD implementation was highlighted early on and repeatedly emphasized, by, for example, Arima et al. (2004). The German government’s report on ESD in Germany brought attention to the current lack of tools to measure progress in ESD and called for the development of a system of indicators (Deutscher Bundestag, 2005, p. 45).

At the Freiburg University of Education, ESD indicators were developed in 2017 specifically for teacher training programmes. In particular, the FESD (Pro) (formula for the ESD-indicator for TTs - professional expertise) indicator was recommended as a useful metric for continuous monitoring, e.g., for inclusion in the federal sustainability strategy. In the 2017 study, data was collected on teacher training for 15 federal states.

In general, indicators are most useful when applied to longitudinal data collection, which makes it possible to map and analyze developments over time. The replication of the FESD (Pro) project now once again analyses the opportunities teachers had in the observation period (school year 2022/23 and first half of the school year 2023/24) to effectively expand their ESD professional expertise with the help of ESD-relevant teacher training courses (in the sense of the probability of obtaining a place in an ESD-relevant training course). These results are compared to the 2017 survey data. This allows a representation of how ESD-related in-service training for teachers has evolved over the past seven years. In addition, for some federal states, the participation rates were used to determine the actual demand for ESD professional development amongst the teachers.

The analysis of the FESD (Pro) for all 16 federal states, as well as the Federal Republic of Germany, provides a qualitative, as well as quantitative, insight into the actual state and especially the development of the ESD training courses within the last seven years. Progress and further existing needs of the teacher trainings do thereby not remain unnoticed. The FESD (Pro) indicator thus provides a significant contribution to the understanding of the ESD implementation processes and their successes.