ESDGC and Work Based Learning Or....communicating sustainable living and supporting people to make...

ESDGC and Work Based LearningOr....communicating sustainable living and supporting people

to make the changes that need to happen........

Rachel Lilleyand

Bob Jacques

Aims and objectives in this session you will:

• Discuss some of the questions and issues related to sustainability

• Experience the resources in the NTFW/Ymlaen Ceredigion e-book created from a series of sector workshops

• Be able to apply some of the main considerations when teaching ESDGC

• Gain insight into the current thinking around sustainability and climate change

• Enjoy yourself! Develop your knowledge and challenge your thinking

Climate Change - what is it?

Ref: http://www.skepticalscience.com/graphics.php

How CO2 causes climate change...http://www.vimeo.com/28991442

Myths and legends

Eco Footprinting vs Carbon Footprinting

Cradle to cradle design

The circular economy

Welsh government targets

• Annual 3 percent reductions in greenhouse emissions in areas of devolved competence from 2011

• At least a 40 percent reductions in all emissions in Wales by 2020 on a 1990 baseline

Targets Current Indicator

Breakdown - current and future actions will focus on reduction of emissions to defined levels by 2020 as follows:

• Transport emissions reduced to between 5.21 and 5.78 MtCO2e against a baseline of 7.14 MtCO2e.

• Residential emissions reduced to between 5.46 and 6.04 MtCO2e against a baseline of 7.48 MtCO2e.

• Business emissions (that fall within Wales’ 3% target) reduced to between 8.33 and 10.30 MtCO2e against a baseline of 11.24 MtCO2e.

• Agriculture and land use emissions reduced to between 4.07 and 4.97 MtCO2e against a baseline of 5.57 mtCO2e

Sustainability – measure?

2. The right single measure of progress must be the one that is self-evidently good. The only such measure is the happiness of the population - and the equivalent absence of misery.

Richard Layard: "Why subjective well-being should be the measure of progress", given at the OECD World Forum on “Statistics, Knowledge and

Policy Charting Progress, Building Visions, Improving Life", Busan, Korea - 27-30 October 2009 chard Layard,

Principles to consider when integrating ESDGC into teaching, learning

and assessing

Not another nature film

Point one – Make the links between the themes in order to understand them as a whole, consumption and waste relates to climate change, climate change relates to health which links to choices and decisions etc etc.

Point two – make ESDGC relevant to the here and now. Young people find it very difficult to consider the future. Often they don’t even believe they will be alive!

“Climate Change is difficult because it's not in our nature to perform favours for people that aren't born yet”

Ian McKewan, Author

Point three - understand that people are not necessarily rational. When thinking about sustainability it is key for learners to understand it is a process ofchange, with all that that means.

Education about sustainabilityFirst order learning, facts, information

Vs Education for sustainability

Includes content but also values, reflection, acceptance of complexity and contradictions

Point four – encourage people to reflect and think for themselves. No one changes just because they are told to.

Finally….Finally…. Be prepared to be challenged and to challenge

The volume of education.... continues to increase, yet so do the pollution, exhaustion of resources, and the

dangers of ecological catastrophe. If still more education is to save us, it would

have to be education of a different kind: an education that takes us into the

depth of things.”E F Schumacher, Towards Sustainable

Education

People don’t resistchange .......They resist being changed

Peter Senge

Behaviour Change Theories

Economics PsychologicalSociological

Is this the way? - greenpeace train

Animation the definition of sustainability

Ads and kids

Don't you love him?

BBC - the science explained

The birthing room

Your mom hates.....

Turning off computers

Reducing paper use

Rachel Lilley rachell@ymlaenceredigion.org.ukMb: 07749188520

Bob Jacques bobj@ymlaenceredigion.org.ukMb: 07976134184

Ymlaen CeredigionCanolfan Rheidol, Rhodfa Padarn, Llanbadarn, Aberystwyth, SY23 3UETel: 01970 633395