Education for Sustainable Development Conference
Friday 17th October, 2008
This one day conference was aimed at everyone interested in education for:
community development, sustainability, social justice, wellbeing, participative democracy, corporate responsibility, ecological balance, citizenship, social cohesion, holistic thinking…
It explored how these areas coalesce under the banner of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), focusing on four questions:
- What type of knowledge, skills and values do graduates need to deal with the sustainability challenges of the 21st century? And what learning techniques can help them gain those skills?
- Is ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ a framework through which these considerations can become integral to HE
- What is the experience of lecturers who have already attempted to integrate these considerations through development of Education for Sustainable Development into their curricula and their teaching?
These questions were explored through:
- Presentations of concrete examples of ESD from a variety of disciplines,
- The dissemination of an ESCalate HEA research project on embedding education for sustainable development in the curriculum, (more about the ESCalate research project)
- Learning from two keynote speakers -
- Brian Chalkley from the GEES subject centre on ESD in the curriculum
- Peter Hopkinson, founder of Ecoversity on Bradford University’s Institutional shift towards Educating for Sustainable Development
- And an Open Space discussion around the embedding of ESD into HE.
More information about the confence is available from our ESD Resources mini-site.