Dr. Ellen Christoforatou

• More Than You Think. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a Shared Arena for Action—An Introduction. New Horizons in the Classroom, Thuringian Institute for Teacher Training, Curriculum Development, and Media, Erfurt, Germany/online (September 2, 2026).

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• Small Interventions, Big Impact. Farmer-Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) as an Interdisciplinary ESD Learning Opportunity in Schools and Teacher Education. ACROSS the Curriculum: Education for Sustainable Development. International Symposium on Subject-Specific Didactics, Vienna, Austria (March 20, 2026).
• Climate Justice—An Intersectional Perspective. Talk with Fiore Longo, Survival International (Right Livelihood Award 1989). Future Dialogues on Global Learning, Vienna, Austria (November 14, 2025).
• Catalysts for Change: How Education for Sustainable Development Drives Internationalization in Teacher Education. Swedish Council for Higher Education, Stockholm, Sweden (October 9, 2025).
• ReThinking Education for a Sustainable Future. University of Mataram, Indonesia (July 27, 2025).
• Global Education for Sustainability – Beyond Buzzwords. Kick-off and Workshop on Learning and Teaching Transformation, Witzenhausen, Germany (June 6, 2025).
• Meeting the Challenges of Today’s World: Teaching Right Livelihood. An Introduction to Cecosesola (Venezuela, Right Livelihood Award 2022). University of Kassel, Germany (June 5, 2025).
• Global Education for Sustainability and Transformation: Challenges and Opportunities from a German Perspective. University of Pretoria, South Africa (online) (May 14, 2025).
• Education for Sustainable Transformation in a Global Context: Examples from Germany. AURORA – Sustainable AgricUltuRe and sOcial-ecological systems approaches in higheR education in the MENA region. Tunis, Tunisia (November 20, 2024).
• Education for Sustainable Development in Schools and Teacher Education: Challenges and Opportunities for Action. Symposium – New Paths Toward the School of Tomorrow, Jena, Germany (July 25, 2024).
• Making It Matter: What Critical Global Citizenship Education Means for Education for Sustainability and Transformation. Conversation with Vanessa Andreotti, University of Victoria. University of Kassel/online (October 5, 2023).
• ESD in Practice: FMNR. Workshop with Tony Rinaudo (Australia, Right Livelihood Award 2019) and Irene Ojuok (Kenya). University of Kassel/Germany (May 2, 2023).

Christoforatou, Ellen [2021]: Teacher Education for Sustainable Development Within National Frameworks: Squaring the Circle from a German Perspective. In: International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning 13 (1), pp. 1-15. https://uclpress.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14324/IJDEGL.13.1.01 [peer review].

Erfurth, Marvin / Christoforatou, Ellen [2021]: Exploring European Teacher Education Between Discursive Construct and Reality. Discrepancies, Criteria and Missed Windows of Opportunity. In: Daniela Worek & Christian Kraler (Eds.): Teacher Education: The Bologna Process and the Future of Teaching (European Network for Teacher Education Policies), pp. 89-98.

Christoforatou, Ellen / Glaser, Edith [2020]: Educational travel as a political-pedagogical program: from exchange to systematic integration. In: Bernd Reef et al. (Eds.): Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Bernd Overwien. Frankfurt/M.: Wochenschau, pp. 103-118.

Christoforatou, Ellen / Erfurth, Marvin [2017]. Internationalisierung der Lehrerbildung - anerkannte uneindeutiger Begriff oder Schimäre?(Transl.: Internationalization of Teacher Education - Ambiguous Notion or Illusion?) In: journal für lehrerInnenbildung 4/17, pp. 53-56 [peer review].

Christoforatou, Ellen [2017]. University teacher education for sustainable development - a Sisyphean task? (Transl.: Teacher Education for Sustainable Development - a Sisyphean Task?) In: Der pädagogische Blick, pp. 19-29 [peer review].

Christoforatou, Ellen [2016]: "Internationalization": a current task field in teacher education. (Transl.: "Internationalization": an Important Issue in Teacher Education.) In: Stefan Zotti (Ed.): International Lectures. 22 Contributions to the Internationalization of Universities. Innsbruck/Vienna: StudienVerlag, pp. 71-74.

Christoforatou, Ellen (Ed.) [2016]: Education in a Globalized World: Teaching Right Livelihood (=Theory and Practice of School Pedagogy 30). Immenhausen: Prolog-Verlag.

Christoforatou, Ellen [2015]: It's the content that counts. - Perspectives on the implementation of a theme-centred internationalization concept. (Transl.: It's the Content That Matters. Perspectives of Realizing a Content-Based Concept of Internationalization) In: Meike Kricke / Louisa Kürten (Eds.): Internationalisierung der LehrerInnenbildung. Münster/New York: Waxmann, pp. 110-123.

Christoforatou, Ellen [2014]: Planning and Teaching Lessons in Transnational Teams: Outline of an Interdisciplinary, Transnational Course with Swedish and German Student Teachers. In: Romita Iucu, Mojca Pecek, Michael Schratz (Eds.): Changing Roles of Teachers in the European Context (European Network of Teacher Education Policy), pp. 19-32.

Christoforatou, Ellen (Ed.) [2012]: Teaching Right Livelihood. A guide for teachers and teacher educators. With teaching materials in English. (Transl.: Teaching Right Livelihood. A Manual for Teachers and Teacher Educators). Kassel: University Press.

Christoforatou, Ellen [2011]: Third Space. In: journal für lehrerInnenbildung 11, pp. 51-54.