Abstract
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are composed from a variety of universal goals. They come with a heavy load on ethical demands while they do not provide any ethical guidance. One possibility to fill this void is to teach the SDGs with a faith-based narrative. Grown out of a workshop by Bread for World we will present our approach of Ownership-inspired Behavior-driven development, which is a strategy for an e-learning governance to introduce an Android app to support e-learning on the SDGs in theological education in remote areas in the Global South. Our goal is to develop a governance strategy for higher theological education to fill the SDGs with a faith-based narrative by using e-learning technology. Based on the staircase curriculum for the education of future church leaders developed by the British FBO Relay Trust we introduce the theoretical framework for this goal, which makes the transfer from a hierarchical governance structure found in many African societies into a dynamic e-learning framework.
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We would like to thank Mette and Alex Bjergbæk Klausen from Relay Trust for helpful comments and support on earlier drafts of this paper. Judith Gottschalk would like to thank Marika Rothenberger from Bread for the World—Protestant Development Service for her helpful input regarding this paper.
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Gottschalk, J., Winther-Nielsen, N. (2018). Enabling Faith-Inspired Education on the Sustainable Development Goals Through e-Learning. In: Leal Filho, W. (eds) Implementing Sustainability in the Curriculum of Universities. World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70281-0_2
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