Education for Sustainability workshop (24th March)
This workshop is for staff wanting to know how to begin or to deepen education for sustainable development in their teaching. Many academics and students want to make their disciplines relevant to real world issues, to explore solutions for a more sustainable future or to develop competencies for critical and systems thinking. We will offer an introduction to education for sustainable development, draw on academic literature and Higher Education guidance to understand the scope, framing and activities it can comprise, and highlight institutional and national resources to support your learning in this area. You will be supported to outline a design for a relevant activity to include in your current teaching.
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There is also a Teaching Practice Forum on Sustainability in the Curriculum on 16th March, which aims to develop competencies that empower individuals to reflect on their own actions, taking into account their current and future social, cultural, economic and environmental impacts, from a local and a global perspective (UNESCO, 2017).
We will discuss and share good practice about embedding sustainability of all sorts into the curriculum and how each School can support students in developing key competencies for sustainability, such as systems thinking competency, future thinking, critical thinking, strategy and collaboration, integrated problem-solving, self-awareness and normative competency.
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These two sessions are complementary but they have a different delivery format and focus; you may attend either or both. You do not need to attend the teaching practice forum to attend the workshop.