Education
Case studies and similar resources
Sport: Football for Peace
Lecturer Gary Stidder demonstrates how students from Sports Education degrees can graduate with an understanding not just of sport itself but of the power of sports to catalyse social change. Although not a formal part of the Sports Studies degree, each year a number of Gary’s students choose to take part in this optional summer project as a supplement to their formal studies and as a way to gain some real-life experience of being a sports trainer. More...
Primary Education BA
Kevin Fossey teaches on a Primary Education BA and even though time is tight and often he only gets to spend three hours on each subject, he makes a concerted effort to bring the principles of sustainable development into his teaching. He places significant emphasis on the importance of teachers as role models in the class room and feeds this directly into training for citizenship teaching: 'I think with my citizenship stuff... More...
Design Technology PGCE
Dean Hackett runs a project module covering two areas: technical drawing skills and manual workshop skills, using technology such as computer aided design. Students are introduced to these two areas and then given an entire semester to develop relevant skills and competencies. More...
Links & further reading
- SD in Schools: 2 documents from Ofsted: Schools and sustainability and Taking the first step forward…towards an education for sustainable development: Good practice in primary and secondary school
- From Mission of the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust The Specialist Schools and Academies Trust: Raising standards: Making sense of the sustainable schools agenda
- UNESCO Guidelines and Recommendations for Reorienting Teacher Education to Address Sustainability
- Huckle, J. (2005) Education for Sustainable Development: a briefing paper for the Teacher Training Agency (also available here).