Self-Awareness
Human evolution is a journey of expanding consciousness, into larger scopes of understanding and caring. Our values are anchors of our identity, and exploring them helps us notice inconsistencies between what we value, and what our actions express. When we explore our personal values, beliefs, assumptions, and motivations we gain greater control over our own actions and can see new alternatives behaviors.
Teaching Goal: Students experience the power of introspection, of scrutinizing the anchors
of their identity and the alignment with their espoused values.
Meta Goal: Recognize the aspects of our paradigm that are anchoring us in unsustainability, and develop new alternatives that align personal values with the greater good. Develop new identity anchors.
Source: Rimanoczy, I. (2020) The Sustainability Mindset Principles: A guide to developing a mindset for a better world. Routledge
Educational Videos
TED Talk: Exploring Personal Values
In Jan Stassen TED Talk, he explains that our values define how we want to live our lives and are our moral obligation for doing something. Stassen believes that values come from personal stories which are often associated with objects. He took this idea and created the Museum of Values, where people send stories associated with objects.
TED Talk: Learning Styles, Critical Self-Reflection, and Self-Awareness
In Dr. Marshik’s TED Talk she debunks the traditional learning styles of auditory, visual, and kinetics. She refers to multiple scientific studies that debunked this ideology and claim it doesn’t show to improve a student’s overall learning. She reinsures that a student can have a preference, but that does not mean they will learn better because of that method.
Educational Video: "The Price of Materialism"
This is a persuasive and well-illustrated 5-minute video from the creators of “The Story of Stuff” that explores how humans have been acculturated to value materialistic values and goals. It argues that the consumer society and materialistic lifestyles cause more anti-social values and less concern for nature.