Networking for education for sustainabl...

This case describes networking for education for sustainable development within the Austrian

ECOLOG-schools network. The article presents theoretical concepts of networks in education

in general and the organization of the ECOLOG-network in particular. Based upon these

foundations, the concept and results of a participatory evaluation study are described and

reflected. The paper closes with a summary of the evaluation process and with an outlook for

the future development of the network. ECOLOG-schools have to deal with tensions between

different interests and stakeholders within Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and

schooling. Spaces for exchange and reflection offered by the network support the ability to deal

with these tensions constructively. The overall challenge of the network might be described as

keeping momentum between structures and processes or, in other words, between stability and

flow to enable the sustainable development of learning.