Transcript How Green is your course Education for Sustainable

How Green is your Course?
Education for Sustainable
Development – a presentation for
tutors
“Learning to Last”
This is all about finding and using
opportunities to include environmental,
economic and social content or
considerations in the subject you teach.
Questions to consider…
• Is Education for Sustainable Development
something you consider in your teaching?
• Why should you engage with this debate?
• Could you explain to Ofsted what the Service is
doing in relation to Education for Sustainable
Development?
But first,
some explanations…
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
“is the process of acquiring the knowledge
skills and attitudes needed to build local and
global societies that are just, equitable and
living within the environmental limits of our
planet, both now and in the future.”
One Leicester…
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Investing in our children
Planning for people not cars
Reducing our carbon footprint
Creating thriving, safe communities
Improving wellbeing and health
Talking up Leicester
Investing in skills and enterprise
This is what we do! The links between
embedding ESD into our teaching and
learning and One Leicester’s primary
aims are clear
Now watch this…
movie
 Go to:
http://wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html
So where do we go with
this?
Don’t panic! We can all make small
changes that will collectively make a
difference.
Try to do one thing differently…
Here are some ideas:
Some ideas to get you started
Vocational learning…
• Childcare workers could research and conduct an
environmental audit of their work placement.
• (Reflective evaluation and discussion around this would also
provide them with a ‘benchmark’ for future expectations)
• IT learners could be directed to websites that deal with
sustainable and ethical living when learning to use the
internet
Some ideas to get you started
Short courses…
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Remit & Family Learning– ‘Grow Great Grub’
How to ‘Green’ your home!
Allotment Gardening
Cooking local produce
Making jewellery from recycled materials
Some ideas to get you started
Skills for Life…
• Calculating different alternative energy sources
• Role play a conversation with a home insulation
advisor
• Writing letters to the Council about recycling
• Debate the merits of different kinds of nappies
Some ideas to get you started
Projects…
• Arts groups hosting an exhibition of art inspired
by climate change
• Developing expertise that we can ‘sell’ to local
employers or communities (consider how
popular retirement planning has become!)
Some ideas to get you started
The Community as a learning resource…
• Partnership with local PCT to deliver cooking
skills in targeted wards
• Promoting courses around reducing carbon
footprints with NLDC groups
Some ideas to get you started
An enriched curriculum…
• How about doing something bold – offering our
learners a Service Users’ Development Day
to explore more sustainable living
• Offer LCC employees a series of stimulating,
interactive events that highlight and promote
new behaviour that supports sustainability
So, what next?
What could you do in your curriculum area?
Ten Step Summary:
• Make sure you know what ESD means
• Think about what you teach and how you teach it. Where does it
lend itself to environmental or social considerations?
• Find out what is already available to you – contact the Green team
• Research vocational or curriculum specific resources
• Identify the environmental, ethical and social considerations you
can raise as part of your course
Ten Step Summary:
• Identify the skills that you can develop in your learners that will
encourage and enable them to live more sustainably
• Have the bravery to get started!
• Use your learners and other tutors as a resource
• Make some changes
• Share what you achieve – get it on the website!
www.vle.lasals.co.uk
• Upload your ideas onto the Green Team section of the
website
• Look at what other tutors have done
• Add your thoughts to the forum
• Be inspired by what you can do, it’s not too late, yet!!!
Some useful websites:
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http://www.eauc.org.uk/sorted/home
• Sustainable Online Resource and Toolkit for Education (SORtED)
http://www.wakeupfreakout.org/film/tipping.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9dz3wUn818
http://www.teachers.tv/video/24992
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlhaF93i4tc
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/green_room/default.s
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http://www.sustlife.com/br4up/ASustlife/alttech.htm
http://www.naturalengland.org.uk/
http://www.wwflearning.org.uk/wwflearning-home/
http://www.foe.co.uk/
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http://www.wwf.org.uk/what_we_do/campaigning/
http://www.globalactionplan.org.uk/about-us
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2007/02/environmental_s.php
http://www.everyactioncounts.org.uk/index.asp
http://www.whi.org.uk/
http://www.foodafactoflife.org.uk/
http://www.face-online.org.uk/
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/category.htm?20
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/category.htm?20
There are lots more websites – look and see what you can find, and
share these on Leicester Learns for other tutors to use.
Thank you!
Leicester Adult Skills & Learning Service
February 2010