sustainable societies: practical education for sustainable development innovations in teaching and...

Sustainable Societies: Practical Education for Sustainable

Development

Innovations in Teaching and Learning MESA UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME:

Educate the Educators

ESD Innovation Course (UNEP/SADC-REEP)

Kenya School of Monetary Studies,

Nairobi-Kenya

4-9 May 2006

Copyright 2006 ENVIRONIC FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL, INC.2

MESA University Programme

• TASK - Integrate ESD issues into higher education

• AIM - ESD issues become part of all programs over the next 8 years

• OBJECTIVE - courseware and methodology to start the ESD mainstreaming process


Desired MESA Outcomes

• A general ESD course that can be used at home


Sustainable Societies


Objectives

• Develop sustainability issue literacy

• Develop students’ abilities to critique and create strategies that address sustainability challenges


Description

• A one semester course that is relevant, usable, clear, applicable, measurable

• Focused on cross-sectoral sustainability issues and strategies to address them

• Designed to complement existing programs

• Designed for IL and ICT delivery


Balanced

Social Economic Environmental


Equally relevantSocial Sciences

Natural Sciences

Agriculture

Engineering

Health

Business

Law


Structure

• Case Study-based

• UNCSD sustainability issues

• Uses existing UN materials

• 3 parts


Part 1 – Introduction


Part 2 – Case Study and associated issues


Part 2 - Issue scalability


Part 3 – Application


OutcomesIssue Literacy Capacity for

Strategy CreationAbility to use information


What’s different• Student-centric• Addresses all UNCSD issues• Emphasis on change of thinking• Final exam is provided at the start of the course• All work published to a searchable data

warehouse• Scalable • Can be used for private, NGO and government

sector training / sensitizing


ESD across entire curriculum

• Breaks the discipline-based straightjacket

• Supports university needs to:– Provide relevant / applicable learning– Focus on development priorities– Support community needs– Develop students’ problem-solving capabilities


Building ESD throughout Africa

• Develop a network of affiliated universities– Building and sharing cases that address real

SD needs– Sharing issue materials and knowledge– Creating and publishing student projects– Providing an open database of ESD materials

• Create universal SD issue literacy


The future?

Potential to impact African Universities over 8 years

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E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.environicfoundation.org


The following are extra slides


Part 1 – Introduction

Objective: Initial subject and issue literacy

• Orientation• Give Pre-Test• Student team builds solution• Introduce 25 Sustainability Issues• Define Sustainable Development• Provide final exam


Part 2 – Case study and associated issues

Objectives: Applied issue literacy

Ability to critique

• Introduce case

• SD Issues associated with the case

• Issue inter-relationships

• Remaining issues


Part 3 – Application

Objective: Ability to synthesize and create SD strategies

• Second case (final exam)

• Student team reports out

• Post-test

sustainable societies: practical education for sustainable development innovations in teaching and...

Documents

information slide

parts slide

home slide

introduction slide

application slide

issue scalability slide

ict delivery slide

building esd