Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) within Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

Updated - Education for Sustainable Development resource list (MS Word 120kb)

During the first half of 2005, the GEES Subject Centre took part in a project run by the Higher Education Academy in which 18 out of the 24 subject centres participated to explore understandings, potentials and current practice in the field of ESD. The findings from a Focus Group held in April 2005, with GEES academics who expressed an interest in this, are outlined in a Report on phase I of the GEES Subject Centre ESD project (MS Word 98kb).

This work will be developed further over the coming academic year In the meantime, comments and input are especially welcomed on the following:

Report: Acting Sustainably: encouraging and crediting student engagement in sustainable development (MS Word 155kb) - Jennifer A. Elliott, School of the Environment, University of Brighton . November 2006
Report: Integrating sustainable development principles into professional practice: Initial training requirements for environmental scientists (170Kb Word Doc) - Report of GEES/PP4SD/IES research project
Report: phase I of the GEES Subject Centre ESD project (MS Word 98kb)
GEES Case studies on ESD (MS Word 128kb) (from the ESD Focus Group - 26 April 2005, Bristol)
- Education for sustainable development Chester style – Cynthia Burek
- Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Education for Sustainable Development – Alan Dyer
- Deployment of an Active Learning Curriculum to Enhance Student Learning about Sustainability – Mary Dengler
- Delivering Education for Sustainable Development (ESD): Southampton Institute, School of Maritime and Coastal Studies – David Johnson
- Piloting of a Higher Education Continuing Professional Development Course Portfolio: Application of Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship – Larch Maxey
- Sustainable Development Training by CD-based Distance Learning – Robert Morgan
- Bus Shelter Uprooting and Phonebox Bursting: Any Compliments for Youth Sustainability Awareness? - Victor Olumekun
- From Agricultural Sustainability to Sustainable Development – Julian Park
- Sustainability in the curriculum [from HEFCE 2005 consultation on ESD] – Ros Taylor
Draft briefing on ESD within GEES – for consultation (MS Word 98kb)
Education for Sustainable Development resource list (MS Word 120kb)
Departmental Workshop Framework – draft for consideration (MS Word 79kb)
Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Forum - Outcome from ESD: Graduates as Global Citizens Conference - September 12th -13th, 2005, Bournemouth University
Publication: Corporate / Social Responsibility [MS Word - 145kB]
The Higher Education Academy programme page for ESD

[ If you would like any of the above Word Documents in a different format please contact Mike Sanders ]

As a result of the project so far, there is a group for GEES academics who have expressed interest in ESD, to whom we will email updates on this work. If you would like to join this community, please contact Susie Bissell at susie.bissell@plymouth.ac.uk

Further links and inputs will be made available from this webpage in due course.

Other Subject Centres with information on ESD on their websites include:

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