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Developing Sustainability Literacy cross-discipline resources Dr Paul Adderley
RCUK Academic FellowUniversity of Stirling
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Outline
Explore possibilities enhancing sustainability literacy across wider-range of subject domains
Starting points; where next
Discuss methods of delivery Electronic resources
Reflection Teaching-Research-Outreach links
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Sustainability Literacy
Definition – based around a framework:
“Sustainable literate person should: Understand the need for change to a sustainable way
of doing things, individually and collectively Sufficient knowledge and skills to decide and act in a
way that favours sustainable development Be able to recognise and reward other people’s
decisions and actions that favour sustainable development”
Term emerged in HE through use by “Forum for the Future”
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
The Sustainability Integration Group Association of Colleges Centre for Excellence in
Leadership Committee of University
Chairmen Department for Education
and Skills Higher Education
Academy Higher Education Funding
Council for England Higher Education Funding
Council for Wales Leadership Foundation for
Higher Education
Learning and Skills Council
Quality Assurance Agency
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
Standing Conference of Principals
Scottish Funding Council Sector Skills
Development Agency Trade Union Sustainable
Development Advisory Committee
Universities UK
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Other initiatives:
England – CETL The Centre for Sustainable Futures,
University of Plymouth “…vision of this pan-discipline organisation
is to enable students on Higher Education “acquire the knowledge, skills, and values, which will assist them in living and working sustainably” ” (Dyer and Selby, 2004)
Campus-based learning approaches
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
“Sustainable literate person should: Understand the need for change to a sustainable
way of doing things, individually and collectively Recognition of rôle of other people(s);
Sufficient knowledge and skills to decide and act in a way that favours sustainable development
Understandings of environment histories; history of environmental issues; earth-system processes; rôle of society
Be able to recognise and reward other people’s decisions and actions that favour sustainable development”
Rôle of other people(s); exemplars from other societies
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Sustainable literacy?
The stuff people want you to give up is always things that they have already chosen not to do or wouldn’t ever want to do, or couldn’t afford. Nobody says: “I could have been a racing driver, but I ride a bike now for the butterflies.” It’s always: “I’m a vegan. Stop murdering animals, you b*****ds.”
A.A. Gill (Sunday Times, 10 June 2007)
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Outline
Explore possibilities enhancing sustainability literacy across wider-range of subject domains
Starting points; where next
Discuss methods of delivery Electronic resources
Reflection Teaching-Research-Outreach links
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Starting points
Perceived need for increased sustainbility literacy
Need (?) to break out of traditional discipline-led pedagogic approaches
Enhancement themes
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Starting points (ii)
Teaching at present Environmental Science Sustainable
development module (Honours years)
Sustainbility issues in Environmental history modules (Honours years) Environmental Science modules (Semester 4)
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Starting points (iii)
Research Environmental History Environmental Science
Wish-list for outcomes of research-led teaching: critical and systemic thinking interdisciplinarity, cross-disciplinarity and
transdisciplinarity issues → collaborative learning make connections – especially with respect to
processes sense of other (geographical locale)
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
What we are not trying to achieve! New course/module. Replacement for parts of an existing
module So, why do it?
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Why?
Introduce concepts to wider range of disciplines
Feedback between expanding teaching to other domains vs. development of cross-disciplinary research
…..?
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Benefits and ideas?
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Outline
Explore possibilities enhancing sustainability literacy across wider-range of subject domains
Starting points; where next
Discuss methods of delivery “Welcome to the Sahel”
Reflection Teaching-Research-Outreach links
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
“Welcome to the Sahel” - an interdisciplinary resource-bank of
sustainable development perspectives for English, environmental science, history, and religious studies undergraduates.
Aims to: increase awareness of sustainable development
issues; extend field-led or documentary-led experiences of
undergraduates; consider the sustainability of societies from a remote,
environmentally sensitive region: the West African Sahel; and
allow contrasts with more immediate local issues to be developed.
Sahel
Past and future rainfall trends(NOAA CM2 model)
Held et al., (2005) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 102, 17891-6
1950-2000 2000-2050 2000-2050
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Zilum area – NE Nigeria
Ancient water management or defence from other peoples?
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Technical details
Database - DSpace typically used for online institutional
depositories of theses and other IP Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
descriptors of resource future proofing
Local server Secured i.e. locked-down access
Protection of IP
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
What is going in the resource… (i) Screencasts digital recording of computer screen
audio commentary MicroSoft Producer for Powerpoint Camtasia Studio plug-in to Powerpoint
Good for visually-rich subjects such as the environmental sciences where visual aids important
Podcasts digital media file (audio or video) which is distributed
and shared over the web so that users can subscribe to digital content; the term Podcast can refer to either the media file itself or the way in which it is delivered.
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Podcasts at Stirling
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
What is going in the resource… (ii) Digitised archival materials suitable for
download datasets historical resources cartography
Ethnographic film
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Promotion and monitoring
Promotion: Launch event Undergraduate targeted conference - follows
“Inexhaustible abundance? Environmental History, Educators and Sustainable Development” jointly supported by University of Stirling and the HEA Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology.
Monitoring committee Outwith discipline-specific staff-student
committees Range of expertise
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Outline
Explore possibilities enhancing sustainability literacy across wider-range of subject domains
Starting points; where next
Discuss methods of delivery Electronic resources
Reflection Teaching-Research-Outreach links
HEA Higher Education and Sustainable Development in Scotland - Dundee June 2007
Reflective activites - Outreach Linking Research to Outreach
Museum activities Awareness of science DTI initiatives in examining future
technologies for young adults (future UGs)
Seeking different audiences Development of Research – Teaching –
Outreach continuum
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