Profile

Based on 12 years working of ESD Center and more than 20 years as Teacher Educator, Athapol Anunthavorasakul is one who engaged with Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)/Global Citizenship Education (GCE). His works on Active Learning Activities with Integrated Curriculum have been developed for Pre-service Teacher Training in the Faculty of Education, Chulalongkorn University and In-service Teacher Training among the network of Thai Civic Education.

For Pre-service teacher training program, five courses in undergraduate program and Co-curricular program have been developed based on active learning approach and transformative pedagogy to facilitate inner change of students and broaden pre- service teacher students’ perspectives on ESD/ GCE themes such Sustainable Development, Diversity, Change, Human Security and Human Rights.For In-service teacher training, He has collaborated with network from universities, key policy makers from Ministry of Education and civil society create platform of learning to build capacity of primary-secondary school teacher and teacher educator in teaching GCE/ESD themes with Civic Education program. His role is now contributing to scale-up training program to nationwide and support school teachers and teacher educators to implement concepts and approaches of GCE/ESD to their classes in schools and universities with mentoring and coaching system and School as Learning Community (SLC) approach.