In springtime of this year 40 students and staff took part in an exciting sustainability-focused field trip to a 50-acre rewilding site in Devon. Embercombe is a largely off-grid education center which runs experiential workshops related to environmental issues such … Continue reading...
Category: Sustainability
(How) can Sustainability Education be ‘Discipline Relevant’?
The planetary emergency, particularly but not only climate change, is impacting the lives of all of us. Society will go through a time of rapid change – whether this is because we change the way we do things to live … Continue reading...
Education for sustainability: case studies
We are delighted to share nine new education for sustainability case studies from a range of faculties and schools across the University.
Do you have a case study to share? Please get in contact.… Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development. Case Study: Geographical Sciences
Programme Name: Geography
How is sustainability included in the program?
There was never a concerted, centralised effort to include sustainability into the curriculum in Geography, but it has emerged as a major theme throughout the … Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development. Case Study: Biological Sciences
School: Biological Sciences
Program: Biology
Units: Ecology (2ndYear), Conservation Biology (2ndYear), Final Year Project (BSc and MSci)
How is sustainability included in these units? How did you decide what was appropriate?
In Ecology, I took … Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development. Case Study: Interdisciplinary / Geography
School: Interdisciplinary (based in Geography)
Unit name: Sustainable Development
What is the unit and what does it cover?
It’s an interdisciplinary open unit which takes a challenge-focussed approach to teaching the UN’s SDGs (Sustainable Development … Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development. Case Study: Policy Studies
Unit name: Climate Emergency. New third year unit taught for the first time in 20/21.
What is the unit and what does it cover?
The unit covers an introduction to the climate emergency, its causes, … Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development. Case study: Education
Programme name: PGCE
What is the program (PGCE) and what does it cover?
PGCE, or Postgraduate Certificate in Education, is a postgraduate secondary teacher training course. Our students are divided into separate subject specialisms (e.g., … Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development. Case Study: Finance
Focus: How the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are embedded in teaching.
How is sustainability included in it? How did you decide what was appropriate?
We teach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part … Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development – Case Study: SPAIS
Unit names: US Foreign Policy, Politics of Human Rights, Thinking Politically, Climate Crisis and International Security (Masters)
How is sustainability included in these units?
Sustainability is weaved into all these units through the inclusion of … Continue reading...