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Facilitator: Dr Alex Ryan
Associate, Higher Education Academy
Interdisciplinary Sustainability Education: Insights, Momentum and Futures
14th December 2011
MOTTO FOR THE DAY?
“Education for Sustainable development (ESD) is a vision that aims to inclusively empower all people to take charge, cooperate and create a sustainable future.
ESD particularly maintains the importance of culture and society in the transition towards a sustainable future.” UNESCO DESD website
ESD is trans-disciplinary in orientation, viewing every subject as having an important contribution and perspective to bring to the field.
In HE its focus ranges across sustainable economies, resilient communities, business innovation, graduate employability and enhanced life opportunities for all people.
EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (ESD)
Purpose: ‘ to help institutions and subject communities develop curricula and pedagogy that will give students the skills and knowledge to live and work sustainably’
Programme of work ESD since 2005 and an ongoing Strategic Priority Theme
Interdisciplinarity and ESD:
- Discussion Series 2006-07
- 8 Funded Projects 2010
THE HEA AND EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/resources/detail/sustainability/sustainability-projects
SUSTAINABILITY LITERACY - BEYOND BOUNDARIES
Building student capabilities to tackle complexity and plural value systems
Creating change with the use of critical thinking and professional reflection
Developing integrated views of social, economic and environmental contexts
Taking a systems approach for multi-agency and inter-professional working
Finding innovative responses to create pathways for future sustainability
Learning how to effectively develop partnerships and engage stakeholders
Exploring and understanding the dialectic between tradition and innovation
INTERDISCIPLINARY ESD: KEY CHALLENGES
Persistent Interdisciplinary T&L challenges:
Student entry points and educational backgrounds vary widely
Sector enabling structures, benchmarks and frameworks are scarce
Educators face substantial challenges due to solo discipline training
Incentives and professional development opportunities are rare
In addition, radical pedagogies favoured for ESD are not well understood or framed in relation to other T&L approaches, nor well established or supported across HE
What do we learn from the projects about how to improve sector capacity?
Building Bridges – cross sectoral collaboration and stakeholder engagement
Tackling Systems – initiatives to work across and between institutions
Developing Tools – articulation of principles and creation of frameworks
INTERDISCIPLINARY ESD: INSIGHTS, MOMENTUM, FUTURES
FINALLY…