Science Education for Sustainability: Teaching Learning Processes with Science Researchers and Trainee Teachers

This chapter presents some educational experiences conducted with postgraduate students engaged to become teachers and professional scientists. Such experiences have the specific aim of supporting young people in the development of the required competences for building a participatory democracy and a sustainable society. With respect to the experiences with future researchers, particular attention was given to the relational aspects - in the interaction among lecturers and between lecturers and students - about this very little is written in the current literature. In relation to the courses with future science teachers, attention is focused on describing in detail some of the activities that are proposed in the teacher education courses, with a view to illustrating the endeavor of building coherent links between learning and teaching processes and "transformative" educational aims. It was also our concern to bring to light and emphasize the variety and breadth of content - both disciplinary and transdisciplinary - that it is possible to deal with through this kind of reflexive and interactive educational approach.