Hello Doughnut

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Description

Hello Doughnut is a comprehensive series of resources for educators – teachers and learners, young and old – to help bring the foundational ideas, practices, and principles of Doughnut Economics into learning spaces across all school years. While the featured resource is aimed at 12-16-year-olds, other resources in this series target other age groups.

This approach to teaching students about Doughnut Economics pays attention to the cognitive (head), affective (heart) and psychomotor (hands) domains of learning, as well as the need to contextualise learning (feet) beyond the classroom to local environments. 

These foundational tools designed by the Doughnut Economics Action Lab comprise several learning elements called ‘cards’. These are bespoke to specific school-learning age brackets (5-7 years old, 8–11 years old, 12–16 years old, and 17–18 years old). 

The tools and each card – ‘preparing to teach’ space cards (yellow), insight cards (orange), activity cards (green) and reflect cards (blue) – have been designed to be flexible and adaptable to the diversity of cultures and ways of learning around the world, including informal/formal, rural/urban education settings too.

To start, watch the video introduction to Preparing to Teacher and download the learning element cards.

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How to use this resource

The DEAL Hello Doughnut resource provides teachers with a pedagogic framework and accompanying economic model to explore the need to develop a more sustainable society. This approach builds on the knowledge and values of students to create a deeper and more meaningful learning experience.

The pedagogic approach includes the cognitive, psychomotor and affective domains, as well as emphasising the need to bring learning into the communities of students. The resource also provides the framework of Doughnut Economics to explore sustainability challenges at local and global levels through the lens of ecological ceilings and social foundations.

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The resources

Hello Doughnut!

A more detailed explanation of the Hello Doughnut DEAL resources and pedagogical approach can be found on the DEAL Preparing to Teach website:

• About foundational Doughnut learning tools

DEAL Preparing to Teach Introduction Video:

• Mindset Shift Card

DEAL Hello Doughnut Learning Element Card Packages that can be used to create your lesson plans according to student ages and time available:

• Tool – Hello Doughnut 5–18

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Learning Outcomes

• Elicit prior knowledge and further develop knowledge and comprehension of key Sustainability Citizenship key concepts, challenging established worldviews and values.
• Apply a range of suitable tools and frameworks to promote student Sustainability Citizenship

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Green Competencies

• Embodying Sustainable Values: Valuing Sustainability; Supporting Fairness; Promoting Nature
• Embracing Complexity in Sustainability: Systems Thinking; Critical Thinking; Problem Framing
• Envisioning Sustainable Futures: Futures Literacy; Adaptability; Exploratory Thinking
• Acting for Sustainability: Collective Action; Individual Initiative

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Creative Commons

This resource was developed by Doughnut Economics Action Labs (DEAL).It is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Licence. This means they can be used for any purpose, so long as you provide attribution and share back any changes you make, under the same licence.  DEAL – www.doughnuteconomics.org

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