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Educating for Sustainability

Educating for Sustainability. A panel discussion for the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Andy Lau Associate Director, Penn State Center for Sustainability February 5, 2009. Questions. What is sustainability? What are the principles of sustainability? How do we teach it?

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Educating for Sustainability

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  1. Educating for Sustainability A panel discussion for the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Andy Lau Associate Director, Penn State Center for Sustainability February 5, 2009

  2. Questions • What is sustainability? • What are the principles of sustainability? • How do we teach it? • What does it mean for Penn State and higher ed?

  3. What is sustainability? It is a way of living that strives to make life better … • For all people alive today • For all living creatures alive today • For all of life in the future In other words, it is a an ethic for living that emphasizes responsibility to quality of life for now and the future. Its watchword … Harmony

  4. What are the principles? From Andres Edwards, The Sustainability Revolution, the common themes are: • Stewardship • Respect for limits • Interdependence • Economic restructuring • Fair distribution • Intergenerational perspective • Nature as a model and teacher. Religion, ethics Ecology, ethics Politics, ecology Economics, ethics Ethics, Sociology HHD, ethics Ecology, Biology

  5. How do we teach it? • Systems • Multi-disciplinary • Values • Nature • I=PAT • Projects

  6. What does it mean for Penn State and higher ed? “Long ago we surrendered the idea of guiding students to a larger vision of self and life in favor of merely well-paying careers.” David Orr, The Nature of Design • Become “learning organizations” to reinvent HE • Systems thinking: change who has lunch with whom • Engage real & messy problems • Get off corporate welfare • Need leaders

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