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