session 5: education for sustainable development
AIMS
- Explore theories, principles, policies and models of Education for Sustainable Development
- Ways of embedding Education for Sustainable Development in teaching practice
- Build your own sustainable curriculum projects
- 'Curriculum 2030' and the curriculum of the future....
- Module review
what is sustainability and where does it fit into education frameworks..?
Pace around and have random conversations with three people about this topic on your way. Feedback for discussion...
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”
why is education important to sustainibility?
Global education first initiative
So sustainability is many things...
- Economic
- Environmental
- Cultural
- Inclusion
- Technological
- Well being
lets look at an example in practice...
SOuth Devon College 'Green Gown' awards 2016.
An AoC Sustainability Initiative
Watch the vid and look for examples of...
- How sustainability and inclusion cross over?
- Different layers of sustainability in the project?
subject specialist mission
- Get into subject groups
- Design a sustainable curriculum project roughly on the scale of 'Samphire'
- Where possible link to other curriculum areas, local businesses and inclusive learning
- 30 mins
- Present findings after the break...
Education 2030... 2045... ?...
education 2030 'incheon declaration'
Towards 2030: a new vision for education
5. Our vision is to transform lives through education, recognizing the important role of education as a main driver of development and in achieving the other proposed SDGs. We commit with a sense of urgency to a single, renewed education agenda that is holistic, ambitious and aspirational, leaving no one behind. This new vision is fully captured by the proposed SDG 4 “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all” and its corresponding targets.
It is transformative and universal, attends to the ‘unfinished business’ of the EFA agenda and the education-related MDGs, and addresses global and national education challenges. It is inspired by a humanistic vision of education and development based on human rights and dignity; social justice; inclusion; protection; cultural, linguistic and ethnic diversity; and shared responsibility and accountability.
We reaffirm that education is a public good, a fundamental human right and a basis for guaranteeing the realization of other rights. It is essential for peace, tolerance, human fulfilment and sustainable development. We recognize education as key to achieving full employment and poverty eradication. We will focus our efforts on access, equity and inclusion, quality and learning outcomes, within a lifelong learning approach.
UNESCO Incheon Conference 2015
KEY POINTS
- $26 Billion Funding Gap globally. Pressure on countries to join GEFI
- Inclusion, 'education for all'
- Lifelong learning
- Gender equality
- Education in areas of conflict and crisis
- Harness ICT
education in conflict
- Look through the pdf.
- Which key points strike you?
- How does this fit with the sustainability agenda?
Education 2045
a different take on education futures...?
Does this sound plausible?
Are there any elements of this vision which ring true for you?
global strategic trends
Increasing computing power, growing access to the Internet and ‘Big Data’ are likely to
have a transformative effect on education, with an increasing blurring between online
and offline learning. Education levels will almost certainly continue to rise across the
globe and for both sexes. At the same time, educational institutions could face a series
of major challenges, including facilitating smoother transitions from education to work
and encouraging lifelong learning to ensure the workforce can adapt to a changing job
market.
These pressures may force educational institutions to provide more informal,
distance and personalised learning. There is likely to be a growing emphasis on the
transferability and constant upgrading of qualifications, as well as a shift towards more
personalised forms of assessment that use a range of technologies to trace the paths of
individual learners.
MOD, 'Global Strategic Trends 'Out to 20145'