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HEA Green Academy workshop 21 st May 2014

Approaches to the formal curriculum. HEA Green Academy workshop 21 st May 2014. Dr Zoe Robinson Director of Education for Sustainability. The ESD team…. Director of Education for Sustainability (0.3 FTE) Remit: Embedding sustainability in the curriculum and wider student experience.

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HEA Green Academy workshop 21 st May 2014

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  1. Approaches to the formal curriculum HEA Green Academy workshop 21st May 2014 Dr Zoe Robinson Director of Education for Sustainability

  2. The ESD team…. • Director of Education for Sustainability (0.3 FTE) • Remit: Embedding sustainability in the curriculum and wider student experience Team available to support anyone in the University to embed sustainability in what they are doing. Also Senior Lecturer (SPGS), course director, researcher, outreach(er)… + 4 0.4 FTE Sustainability Project Officers Sophie Bessant Philippa Calver Rebecca Laycock Giulia Mininni

  3. Green Academy outcomes HEA ‘Green Academy’, 2011 Sustainability in the Distinctive Keele Curriculum • A multi-stranded approach… • Staff development • Bespoke programmes • Free electives • Discipline-based modules • PGT, PGR, CPD

  4. Approaches: Elective modules • Open to any student Global Warming or a New Ice Age? Greening Business: Employability and Sustainability

  5. Approaches: Bespoke degrees MSc Environmental Sustainability & Green Technology MA Climate Change Studies MA Environmental Politics But…. Numbers? Enough impact? Aaah, but… can catalyse change BSc Environment & Sustainability

  6. Approaches: Discipline specific modules • Chemistry: Sustainable chemistry • History: Nature, Society and the Past: An Environmental History of the Western World • History: Water histories: A Cultural History of water • Law: International law, globalisation and the environment • KMS: Corporate Governance and social responsibility • Politics: Environmental ethics… • Psychology: Ecopsychology

  7. Approaches: External lectures

  8. Approaches: Redesigning assessments

  9. Approaches: Student projects

  10. Approaches: Discipline specific sessions

  11. Approaches: Centrally-supported sessions – skills development

  12. The role of communication • Sustainability needs to be a word regularly heard…

  13. Linking the curriculum….. The formal curriculum The informal curriculum The ‘subliminal/hidden’ curriculum

  14. So…. • The formal curriculum can catalyse student activity • ‘ A long game’ – staff need time to believe it’s important and relate it to their discipline • ‘Sustainability’ needs to become part of everyday conversations • Different disciplines will require different entry approaches • Important to have support – people and resources

  15. Thank you!

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