The UN SDGs an agenda to renew and

The UN SDGs – an agenda to renew and repurpose HE? Teaching Sustainability: Sustainable Teaching University of Kent University of Plymouth Paul Warwick

Education for Sustainable Development. Goals Head Heart and Hands UNESCO (2017): Education for Sustainable Development Goals. Learning Objectives. Paris: UNESCO. http: //unesdoc. unesco. org/i mages/002474/24744 4 e. pdf (Lead authors: Marco Rieckmann, Lisa Mindt, Senan Gardiner)

Sustainability Education Re-vitalising our education system ‘Societies everywhere are undergoing deep transformation, and this calls for new forms of education to foster the competencies that societies and economies need, today and tomorrow. ’ - Irina Bokova, UNESCO DG, 2015. http: //www. unesco. org/new/en/education/themes/leading-the-internationalagenda/rethinking-education/

At the heart of sustainability education is the idea of students developing as compassionate critical creatives

1 st Order Change: Being less UNSustainable (Less Bad) First-order solution strategy: Add more lanes! Harold Glasser Western Michigan University

nd 2 Order Change: Becoming Net. Positive (Improve quality of life for all)

Third Order Change/Learning Seeing things differently – transformative paradigm change Developing a sense of our state of interdependence “We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality” - (Martin Luther King 1965)

What are effective ways to teach and learn sustainability? • International research supports Sustainability Education being provided through active and applied approaches: • Service Learning – Community Engaged Learning • Interdisciplinary Challenge based learning • Problem-based learning – action research • Appreciative Inquiry • Role play, games and simulations • Group dialogue and deliberation • Case Studies

Interdisciplinary Learning Model www. plymouth. ac. uk/interdisciplinary-learning

Service Learning Developing the competency of change-leadership

Sustainable teaching requires new learning spaces