Newsletter: EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
Quarterly e-Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 1 (September 2008)
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See contents and highlights below...
‘- agree, following consultation led by HEFCE, a new strategy for sustainable development in the HE sector, covering, amongst other things, how sustainable development issues, including climate change, can best be addressed in the HE curriculum (recognising that the curriculum must be for universities to determine)’
-- Quotation under ‘Skills and Education Objectives 2008-09’ from the new DIUS Sustainable Development Action Plan, http://www.dius.gov.uk/sustainable_development.html
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
REPORTS
• ESD: Strategic Consultations among English HEIs
• Welcome to the Sahel
• Teaching Sustainable Development Innovation: The Market Place
• Developing e-Learning Materials for Sustainable Construction Management
• e-Learning Case Study for ESD and Archaeology
• A Network for Sustainable Development Education in the Humanities
• Work in Progress
DISSEMINATION AND NETWORKING
• Education for Sustainable Development Conference
• Academy ESD Project Special Issue of Environmental Education Research
• Call for Chapters: The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy
• ESD Networks and Regional Networking Days
• All Our Futures Conference
SUBJECT CENTRE SPOTLIGHT
• UK Centre for Legal Education
NATIONAL NEWS
• England
• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• Wales
OTHER NEWS IN THE SECTOR
• U.S. Congress Passes Higher Education Sustainability Act
• Outdoor Learning and ESDGC
• Getting Results – The Secret to Winning Hearts and Minds
• Understanding Sustainability Economics
• The Principles of Sustainability
• The Centre for Sustainable Futures e-Newsletter
• Regeneration and Learning: Continuity, Change and Community
• The Schumacher Certificate in Education for Sustainability
• Embedding Ecodesign and Sustainability in Mainstream Design Curricula: A Joint Venture for Four Welsh Universities
• Ecoversity Newsletter
• Green Economics
• Westcountry Energy Action
• Skills to Last
• SD and Well-Being
• SD, Systems Thinking and Professional Practice
• The Sustainable Enterprise Fieldbook
• International Textbook Research
• The Nuptial Dimension of SD
• Bournemouth Conference Announced
• International Journal on Development Education and Global Learning
• TRANSVision
• Planet U: Sustaining the World, Reinventing the University
• Understanding SD
• Green Theory & Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy
• Education and SD: Learning to Last?
• University Challenge: Towards a Well-Being Approach to Quality in Higher Education
• Green League 2008
• Green Frontiers: Environmental Educators Dancing Away from Mechanism
• ESD in the Field of Nursing: Call for Information
• University Reform in an Era of Global Warming
• An Appeal to Heroic Educators
• Green Collar Jobs
• Green Edition of Ofsted’s Talisman
• Green General Education?
• First University of St Andrews Graduates in SD Collect Degrees
EVENTS IN THE SECTOR
CONTACT AND FEEDBACK
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EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE
Calling all lecturers interested in education for: community development, sustainability, social justice, wellbeing, participative democracy, corporate responsibility, ecological balance, citizenship, social cohesion, holistic thinking… Come to this free, one day conference on Friday 17 October 2008 to explore how these areas coalesce under the banner of ESD. The day includes the dissemination of the Academy's Education Subject Centre (ESCalate) research project on embedding ESD in the curriculum, and keynote speeches from Brian Chalkley of the GEES Subject Centre and Peter Hopkinson, founder of Ecoversity, on University of Bradford's institutional shift towards Educating for Sustainable Development. Read about ESCalate’s project: http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/clt/research/projects.htm#coastal and learn more about the day: http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/clt/events/esd.htm
ACADEMY ESD PROJECT SPECIAL ISSUE OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION RESEARCH
A special issue (Vol 14.4 ) of Environmental Education Research produced in collaboration with the Academy’s ESD Project is now available. This issue, entitled 'Education for Sustainable Development in Higher Education', is guest edited by Stephen Sterling with William Scott, and provides a snapshot overview of the state of ESD, particularly in the English HE system. Most of the contributions come from academics who presented at the ESD Project's conference in Bradford in 2007. Contents are as follows:
Higher education and ESD in England: a critical commentary on recent initiatives
Pushing the boundaries: the work of the Higher Education Academy’s ESD Project
Developing sustainable development within the higher education curriculum: observations on the HEFCE strategic review
Starting with the staff: how swapshops can develop ESD and empower practitioners
Sustainable graduates: linking formal, informal and campus curricula to embed ESD in the student learning experience
Exploring the role of the extra-curricular sphere in higher education for sustainable development in the United Kingdom
Teaching against the grain: multi-disciplinary teamwork effectively delivers a successful undergraduate unit in sustainable development
Making sustainability 'real': using group-enquiry to promote Education for Sustainable Development
For details see: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713416156~db=all
CALL FOR CHAPTERS: THE HANDBOOK OF SUSTAINABILITY LITERACY
Dr Arran Stibbe of University of Gloucestershire is leading on the publication of a Handbook of Sustainability Literacy, which will be a dual format (online/print) book, exploring the abilities, competencies, forms of knowledge, attributes, and values that can help people deal with the changing conditions of the 21st century and contribute to a more sustainable society. The publishing contract is with Green Books, an independent UK publishing company specialising in environmental and cultural issues. The production of the book will be preceded by the event Soundings in Sustainability Literacy where participants will have a chance to engage in critical discussion and debate about sustainability literacy. The event will be held on 21 November 2008 at the University of Gloucestershire, followed by a deadline for submitting chapters of 1 Feb 2009. To book a (free) place at the Soundings in Sustainability Literacy event, please contact Seek Pang: spang@glos.ac.uk. For more information about the book, please contact Arran Stibbe: astibbe@glos.ac.uk. Instructions for authors and a booking form for the Soundings event are available from:
http://www.eauc.org.uk/soundings_in_sustainability_literacy_a_national_es .
GETTING RESULTS – THE SECRET TO WINNING HEARTS AND MINDS
This workshop, which is due to take place at the University of Bradford on 14th October, aims to stimulate behaviour change in institutions by identifying ways to motivate colleagues to take up the sustainability challenge and includes case studies by David Wood, Principal of Lancaster and Morecambe College, and Sheri-Leigh Miles, Ecoversity Student Engagement Co-ordinator at the University of Bradford. For details, see:
http://www.eauc.org.uk/getting_results_the_secret_to_winning_hearths_and_
Read online at: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/ourwork/learning/sustainability/enewsletter
Or download as PDF (228KB) from: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/York/documents/ourwork/tla/sustainability/esd_enews2_1.pdf