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Welcome
Sustainable Development and the Curriculum
EAUC Conference – Bangor 2010
Agenda
• What is sustainable development - very brief introduction• Activity – Embedding SD in Hairdressing an outline
approach• SD and the curriculum – achieving regional objectives
Objectives
To introduce the guides To introduce and outline approach to
embedding SD in the curriculum To demonstrate the relationship between SD in
the curriculum and wider agendas
What is Sustainable Development?
Exercise
What is sustainable development? Defined by the Brundtland Commission in
1987 – ‘Our Common Future’
“development which meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”
What is sustainable development?
Society
EconomyEnvironment
What is sustainable development?
Society
EconomyEnvironment
Reducing the negative and increase the positive
Long term view
What is sustainable development? It is a way of making decisions!
- We consider the environmental, social and economic implications
- We take a long term perspective- We seek to enhance the positive impact of what we do- We seek to reduce the negative impact of what we do
Introduction to the guides
Exercise
Embedding SD in the Curriculum
Step 1 – What do I do?
Step 2 – What are our impacts? Positive and negative (we need to celebrate the good
we do!)
Step 3 – What do others say our impacts are? Stakeholder, students, community
Stage 4 – What can we do to reduce the negative and increase the positive? Action planning
One Planet Leaders Tools and Approaches
Embedding SD in the Curriculum
Step 1 – What do hairdressers do?
Step 2 – What are the environmental, socuial and economic impacts of hairdressing? Positive and negative (we need to celebrate the good
we do!)
One Planet Leaders Tools and Approaches
SD in Hairdressing
Positive Negative
Environmental Environmental
Social Social
Economic Economic
Embedding SD in the Curriculum
Step 3 – What do others say our impacts are? Stakeholder, students, community
Stage 4 – What can we do to reduce the negative and increase the positive? Action planning
One Planet Leaders Tools and Approaches
SD and the curriculum – achieving regional objectives
Linking SD in the curriculum to achieving wider priorities
How does all this fit with the inspection framework?Panel Session / Discussion
How does it fit with the inspection framework?
FE and Skills Inspection Framework- Ofsted• Learners develop skills, knowledge and
understanding relevant to community cohesion and sustainable development
• Provision is well coordinated, relevant to local communities and promotes social inclusion and sustainable development
• The provider is committed to managing its resources in a sustainable way
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