1. Cultivating Sustainable Lifestyles 15-17 October 2004 Teaching responsibility Victoria W. Thoresen The Consumer Citizenship Network, Project Manager, University College of Hedmark, Norway

2. A labyrinth of choices

3. Approaches to responsibility Biological determinants Social expectations Moral imperatives

4. The present labyrinth Soul sickness Cooperation Complexity Mobility Globalization and commercial influence New patterns of cognitive understanding and moral development New forms of citizenship Alternative visions of the future

5. Teaching responsibility Motivation Skills Goals

6. Motivation fundamental pessimism positive responses to scientific and spiritual knowledge

7. Skills communication skills decision making skills problem solving skills creativity change management skills

8. Cooperative learning Team learning Service learning Value clarification Active value choice Problem based learning Case studies Experimental learning Role playing, simulations Project work Action-research Campaigns Debates Biographies Story telling Methods

9. -Help students discover the underlying principles and values connected to issues and dilemmas -Reflect on one's own experiences -Personalize as well as theoretize issues

10. -Identify specific ways of posing a problem -Help students acquire an understanding of systems and processes -Develop the capacity in students to listen as well as to express one’s own ideas and map alternative solutions

11. -Challenge the students’ prejudices -Use social commentary as learning material -Use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology)

12. Content suggestions Education for sustainable development Lifestyles in the past and present Making choices Managing resources Solving problems Contributing to the future

13. “nobility becomes the accent of life…”