LIVING WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS ACHIEVING A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY

LIVING WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITS ACHIEVING A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY ENSURING A STRONG, HEALTHY AND JUST SOCIETY PROMOTING GOOD GOVERNANCE USING SOUND SCIENCE RESPONSIBLY

How you teach matters • Freire – critical pedagogy for adult literacy education • Banking – Deposit & withdraw – Passivity & power • Dialogic – What do you need language for? – Start at your starting point – Praxis • What would foster this – Real world problems – Field trips/case studies – Choose your topic of interest – Action research for assessments – Practical activities – Engaging in change

Under graduate degree in SD • Inter-disciplinary – Science, Arts & Humanities – At honours 50% in SD work (integrating cases, review essays & dissertation) & 50% in a subject (to allow depth and context to apply SD thinking to) • Demographics – 1 st year (186 students), 2 nd year (83 students), junior hons (24 students) – First graduates in 2008 – Cognate subjects (geography, international relations, philosophy, biology, management)

University as pedagogy • Strategy – With objectives, targets & reporting • Governance & leadership – Environmental task group & changing behaviour group • Fair Trade status • Ethical investment • Building for SD & green tourism award • SD Leadership Lecture series (in partnership with SDRC) • Data gathering – Travel survey – Student SD survey – Water/energy/waste audits • Renewable energy strategy & energy efficiency fund • Students Association – Fair trade & ethical investment – Interhall energy competition – Clubs & societies – Campaigning & innovating