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...
Tag: Sustainability
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...
What is ‘climate anxiety’ and how does it impact our approach to climate change education?
Young people today have grown up surrounded by troubling news of climate related storms, flooding, drought, ocean pollution, ecosystem devastation and the deforestation of the Amazon Rainforest. This is a generation that has not only come to witness the ‘slow … Continue reading...
Future-proofing sustainability in the law curriculum: resources for law students
The climate crisis is also a global inequality crisis. In tackling the interconnected issues and challenges of the climate crisis, the expertise of people with lived experiences must be recognised, and the most affected communities should be at ‘heart and … Continue reading...
Meet the Student Fellows…
Eva Craig
Hi! I’m Eva, one of six Student Fellows working for BILT this year on several interesting and important topics. My project is focussed on embedding sustainable development into the curriculum at the university. A significant task given the … Continue reading...
Research-led interdisciplinary Sustainable Development blended learning
The Practice
The Sustainable Development optional unit is (SDU) part of a suite of interdisciplinary units offered to students across all faculties, It is a 20-credit unit and suitable for students from first and second year, requiring no prior knowledge. … Continue reading...
From fuzzy to compassionate
Many moons ago, I started working on Education for Sustainable Development. At the beginning, it was seen as a ‘fuzzy’ topic, not scientific enough, and too touchy-feely-tree-huggy. Oh! How the winds have changed as sustainability is mainstream in pretty much everything we do now. Staff … Continue reading...
Boosting sustainability at Uni: the new Sustainability Champions
During the times of lockdown and quarantines, my curiosity and free time brought me to attend SOS-UK’s webinar on decolonizing the curriculum. Among talks from representatives at different universities and students’ unions was the President of the UWE student union. An apparent game-changer role that they … Continue reading...
Education for Sustainable Development: “The process of creating curriculum structures and subject-relevant content to support sustainable development”
Today’s world is suffering from severe crises. As a young person, I feel deeply concerned about what the future will bring. The most vulnerable and unprivileged are already suffering from a lack of food, access to water, or energy. We … Continue reading...