Question 1

Country & City

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Belgium - Leuven 
 
Djapo vzw
Ortolanenstraat 6
3010 Kessel-lo
Tel: 0460/95.71.01
Email: info@djapo.be

Question 2

The team

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An Yskout
An started out as a secondary school teacher, but after a few years she decided to dive into the social-profit sector. There she specialized, among other things, in non-formal education, team development and process management. Her great love for sustainability, bridge-building and process guidance eventually led her to Djapo.
At Djapo, An helps the team of facilitators – who assist teachers in change processes or trainings – to embed process guidance in their daily work. She also helps to translate the theoretical framework of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) into the daily Djapo operation. 
An sees many possibilities in Digital Destiny and above all hopes that teachers all over Europe will enthusiastically experiment with our tools for blended learning and ESD.

Sabine Anné
Sabine has been fascinated by ecology for years. While studying primary education, she also became fascinated with thinking education, and a match was made. She got the bug to develop teaching materials and educational concepts, preferably around sustainability themes.  As an educational developer at Djapo she can fully indulge in both education and sustainability. She specializes mainly in didactics for ESD in primary education. Sabine developed a method ‘philosophical inquiry for children’ and studied systems thinking around ESD. She also coordinates Djapo's operation for teacher training programs.  
Why does Sabine think Digital Destiny is so important? Because this project fuses a lot of exciting ideas around ESD, blended learning and other educational concepts, leading to very enriching insights.

Wendy Blanckaert
During the ten years that Wendy was a full-time elementary school teacher, she taught in a project-based and integrated way, starting from real life world and questions. The didactics of inquiry-based and design-based learning provided an important framework. Over the years, Wendy became more and more interested in education for sustainable development.
Wendy still teaches one day a week. The rest of the week she’s one of the Djapo-coaches who help teachers to learn more about ESD teaching methods. With her expertise in inquiry-based and design-based learning, she manages to combine design thinking with the action-based thinking of ESD.
Wendy firmly believes in the possibilities of Digital Destiny. She notices that since the coronavirus crisis, teachers are looking, now more than ever, for ways to integrate digital learning methods into a classical learning context. Digital Destiny can play an important, guiding role in this. Moreover, because the project focuses on ESD, she hopes that more teachers will experience social challenges as a rich learning context.
 
Sara De Piere
How to provide children and teenagers with the best and most motivating conditions for them to be curious, joyfully investigate life and turn mistakes in interesting opportunities for discovery and learning?

For the past 20 years, Sara has spent most of her professional time looking for answers to this question. She did this by working in, with and for schools, as a teacher, coach and researcher consecutively. In the process, Sara specialised in the integration of societal issues as rich learning contexts at school.

Sara has co-authored at Djapo various publications destined for teachers and educators, on systems thinking, critical thinking, creative thinking. She also contributed to articles for Djapo’s  teachers’ magazines and co-authored various children’s books intended to create a learning context around societal issues for Early Childhood Education. The last few years, Sara spend her time with research and dialogue with researchers from different countries for her last co-authored publication ‘The school as a place for practice’, where Djapo offers a practical theoretical framework for Education for Sustainable Development.

Question 3

About the organisation

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Djapo is an educational organization with roots going back to the 1960s. Since its inception, Djapo has been committed to empowering children and young people as critical and resilient designers of a sustainable society. To this end, Djapo has been pioneering Education for Sustainable Development (EDO) since 2011.
Based on a constant interaction between theory, practice and policy, Djapo focuses on the development, dissemination and application of didactic and pedagogical frameworks, methods and tools about ESD that allow the development of ESD dispositions of students. Feeling with and attunement to educational practice are central here. This practice is both Djapo's practice and that of students, teachers, school teams and everyone involved in community school, from kindergarten, primary and secondary school to teacher training.

Question 4

Why did you enter this project?

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Fueled by constant interaction between theory, practice and policy, Djapo focuses on the development of didactic and pedagogical frameworks, methods and tools. We find our inspiration for this in Education for Sustainable Development (EDO). ESD is based on scientific research and is put into practice internationally.
Djapo’s engagement in DDestiny is rooted in a strong belief in co-creation. Knowledge is an asset that is owned and created by all individuals and should be shared as much as possible. 
DDestiny creates qualitative opportunities for teachers to develop their students’ disposition to create  knowledge from the engagement with societal issues, together with others, and to share it digitally.

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