Vocational Graduate Certificate in Education and Training...

Vocational Graduate Certificate in Education and Training for

Sustainability

VGCETS

The end of a journey.........

Federal funding

Vocational Graduate Certificate in Education and

Training for Sustainability

WA - 16 participants, 80 throughout Australia

Diploma TAE Sustainability units

WA – 80 participants, 500 Australia

Our stories . . . . .

What happened?

What did we learn/experience?

What did we achieve that can be shared?

Our stories . . . . . where we started...

Geraldine Burgess

Our stories . . . . . where we started...

Rick Murray

Our stories . . . . . where we started...

I was delivering sustainability

courses prior to joining the VGC

course…

• Certificate II & III of

Conservation and Land

Management (core units)

• Diploma of Sustainability

(Victorian accredited course)

In-class collaboration activity

Our stories . . . . . where we started...

• Better delivery in-class

& online

• Expanded personal

sustainability practice

• More promotion of

sustainability

I was wanting ..

Our stories . . . . . where we started...

Penny Boston

Our stories . . . . . where we started...

Last crop June 2012 Approaching storm 29 Jan 11

The locals

EaS and EfS

Education about sustainability:

– is an awareness lesson, or the technical knowledge and skills about sustainability

– is not necessarily oriented to achieving change.

Education for sustainability:

– is the use of education as a tool to achieve a sustainable future

– EfS is focused on empowering people to take action

– EfS includes elements of education about sustainability.

We learnt about ...........

Using the principles of EfS

• participation

• envisioning the future

• transformation and change

• systems thinking

• critical thinking and reflection

• partnerships for change

• life long learning

We learnt .......

• to embed EfS into our learning strategies

• to build a culture that incorporates EfS

• to work constructively with other worldviews

So what happened.......

Geraldine Burgess

So what happened........

Rick Murray

So what happened........

…I found that delivering

sustainability is more about

changing attitudes &

values & improving

sustainability practice than educating about

sustainability Student preparing recycle collection bins

for the canteen area

So what happened........

EfS opens emotional

responses to

sustainability leading to

commitment to sustainability

practices

So what happened........

I made my online delivery more engaging

So what happened........

Students say.........

...forums & wikis make online study more fun!

...personal behaviour change comes from understanding & developing values and attitudes Student redesign project following Eco-

design principles

What happened?

Penny Boston

Activity

Before you buy that Coke…

What It Takes .... Mining of one ton of bauxite Transported to chemical reduction mill Purified to 1/2 ton aluminium oxide in mill (half hour) Shipped to smelter Turned into ¼ ton (2 hours, after stockpiling for months) Shipped to roller mills, rolled to 1/8th inch Transported to warehouse, then cold rolling mill - rolled to I/10th of thickness Punched into cans, washed, dried, painted, lacquered, sprayed inside to prevent corrosion

by the drink Inspected, palletized, fork lifted, warehoused Shipped to bottler, washed and cleaned Filled with flavoured syrup, phosphorus, caffeine, CO2 gas Cans are sealed, packaged in cardboard (forest pulp) printed with marketing graphics Shipped to distribution warehouse, then to supermarket. Purchased within 3 days, consumed within 10 minutes, thrown away within 30

seconds.

Reflecting, critical analysis

In pairs explore, discuss and record: • How your mobile phone was produced (energy consumed in

production)

• What natural resources were used in the production

• How it was transported to you (and associated energy use)

• How it was packaged?

Your mobile phone….

How will it be disposed of?

Will it be thrown away?

Where is away?

Back to Sydney in February...

Industry involvement....

Lend Lease

Resources to use……

http://ecommunities.tafensw.edu.au Sustainability hub

http://www.swinburne.edu.au/ncs/efshub/ www.sustainabilityskills.net.au

Current Professional Development opportunities………

Sustainability Skill Set

(Diploma of TAE)

TAEUS501A-Analyse and Apply sustainability skills into learning programs

TAEUS502A- Identify and apply current sustainability education principles and

practice to learning programs

Contacts...

Theresa Putland, Principal Lecturer , Polytechnic West

Geraldine Burgess, Lecturer, Pilbara Institute

Penny Boston, Lecturer, CY O’Connor Institute

Rick Murray, Lecturer, South West Institute of Technology

Kerry Bowe, Director Horticulture and Applied Science, Challenger

Institute of Technology

Robyn Williams, Lecturer, Durack Institute of Technology

We learnt .......

‘shameful to graduate someone who is not knowledgeable

on sustainability’

Dr Debra Rowe (USA)