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Dear Colleagues    Please find description of and link to my newly released introductory guide to ESD in Higher Education - written to help newly interested colleagues become involved, or take existing work further. Please forward as appropriate.    with thanks    Stephen    Professor Stephen Sterling  Plymouth University      The Future Fit Framework: an introductory guide to teaching and learning for sustainability in HE  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/esd/The_Future_Fit_Framework.pdf  'This is one of the most comprehensive and accessible guides for academic and professional practitioners who are seeking ways of embedding sustainability into the curriculum and teaching and learning in higher education. It's both fit for purpose and fit for the future.'    - Stephen Martin, chair of the HEA ESD Advisory Group and President of Change Agents UK  This comprehensive 'what, why and how' guide was commissioned and is published by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). Written and compiled by Professor Stephen Sterling, Centre for Sustainable Futures, Plymouth University, the Framework is based on the experience of HEA's Education for Sustainable Development Project in supporting the embedding of sustainability in the HE curriculum.  The Framework is designed to help the newly interested academic better understand and engage with sustainability education, and encourage more experienced colleagues to take this work further. Organised into 14 sections plus Appendices, the guide is designed so that users can easily find the information and ideas that are most useful to them without needing to read the whole document. The concepts, ideas and models presented are intended as indicative rather than in any way prescriptive or limiting. They are designed to help, to be used and tried out, amended, critically discussed and adapted as part of the individual and institutional learning process towards quality ESD provision. Contents include:  1 Introduction; 2 Why bother?; 3 Graduates fit for the future?; 4 Where to start?; 5 Barriers – and pathways; 6 Objections - and answers; 7 Key concepts and values; 8 ESD pedagogies; 9 ESD in the disciplines; 10 Simple change tools; 11 Teaching/CPD activities; 12 Research and ESD; 13 Resources; References; Appendices.  'I've been using your Fit for the Future Framework very successfully with our Deans here.'    - Jane Davidson,Director INSPIRE: Institute for Sustainable Practice, Innovation and Resource Effectiveness, Trinity Saint David University, Wales        <http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/esd/The_Future_Fit_Framework.pdf>[http://www.eauc.org.uk/image_uploads/fff_resized.jpg]<http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/esd/The_Future_Fit_Framework.pdf>    Stephen Sterling  Professor of Sustainability Education  Head of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)  Centre for Sustainable Futures  Plymouth University  Kirkby Lodge  Drake Circus  Plymouth PL4 8AA  United Kingdom    tel 01752 588898    http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/srsterling    email: stephen.sterling@plymouth.ac.uk<mailto:stephen.sterling@plymouth.ac.uk>  Website: http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/pages/view.asp?page=37407    Sterling, S (2012) 'The Future Fit Framework: an introductory guide to teaching and learning for sustainability in HE'  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/esd/The_Future_Fit_Framework.pdf      Sustainability Education: Perspectives and Practice across Higher Education<http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=102287>  Edited By Paula Jones, David Selby and Stephen Sterling    http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781844078783/  

 

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Fwd: To be put on the HEA news

Dear Simon,

Could you add the following to the bulletin?

Thanks
Rodrigo

For centuries, universities have been at the forefront in creating and breaking paradigms, and educating the future decision-makers, entrepreneurs, and leaders. However, universities have remained traditional and have had a tendency to self-replicate, where far too much of modern education has continued to rely upon Newtonian and Cartesian mental models, which relegate learning and action to reductionist thinking and mechanistic interpretation.

In the last years there have been a number of universities engaging with Sustainable Development (SD); yet Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) has not fully permeated all disciplines, scholars, and university leaders, or throughout the curricula.

At the Stockholm Conference in 1972 education was formally recognised on an international level to play an important role in fostering environmental protection and conservation. Since then many academic declarations, charters and partnerships were developed that were designed to foster environmental education (EE), SD, and ESD. Since 1987 there has been a large increase in such initiatives. The declarations, charters and partnerships were designed to provide guidelines or frameworks for HEIs to better embed sustainability into their system. The increasing importance of such declarations, charters and partnerships, for fostering transformative SD is evidenced by the more than 1,000 university leaders who ratified their commitment to work to advance SD education and research by signing the Talloires Declaration, the Kyoto Declaration, and the Copernicus University Charter by the end of 2003.

In spite of a number of initiatives and an increasing number of universities engaging with SD, universities have remained quite traditional. Many of them still lag behind in regards to contributing to making societies more sustainable. Such mental models, coupled with resistance to change, and in some cases the self-replicating system of universities have limited the diffusion of the SD 'meme' in many universities, their system, as well as among all disciplines, scholars, and university leaders.

The initiatives (such as declarations, charters, partnerships and conferences) developed to foster SD can provide a framework or guidelines on how to better embed sustainability into the university system. The different initiatives discussed emphasise that universities have a moral obligation to work towards sustainable societies, focusing on environmental degradation, threats to society, and sustainable production and consumption for this and future generations.

Although these initiatives are intended to serve as supporting, guiding, and challenging documents throughout the university system, this does not ensure that the signatory institutions implement SD within their systems. There might also be institutions that have not yet signed a declaration or belong to a charter, but which are, nonetheless, actively engaged with SD on their campuses.

Nowadays, the HEIs with foresight and leadership are beginning to adopt and weave SD into their curricula, research, and outreach and campus operations.

Researchers from Belgium, Mexico, Slovenia, the UK, and the USA are working on a project looking at how different HEIs worldwide have implemented SD, and if they have signed a declaration, or belong to a charter. As part of this project we have developed an on-line survey: https://www.survey.leeds.ac.uk/sd_in_universities/ .

We would really appreciate it if you were able to distribute the email below to your network. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Dr. Rodrigo Lozano, University of Leeds (r.lozano@leeds.ac.uk).

Fwd: New and recent ESD publications from the HEA, NUS, Prof Stephen Sterling, and Dr Alex Ryan

Dear colleagues,    As many of you will be aware, the HEA & NUS have just published the second report on Student Attitudes and Skills for Sustainable Development.  The findings reinforce, and in many cases strengthen, the landmark key outcomes of the first study published in 2011.  Headlines include:  Over two thirds of 2011 first and second-year respondents, as in 2010 (70%), believe that sustainability should be covered by their university  There is a continued preference among students for a reframing of curriculum content rather than additional content or courses  Two-thirds of respondents would sacrifice £1000 from their salary to work in a responsible company    The report can be downloaded from: www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/esd/Student_attitudes_towards_and_skills_for_sustainable_development.pdf      Colleagues should also be aware of the following valuable resources published by the Higher Education Academy during the past month that are also available for download:    The Future Fit Framework: an introductory guide to teaching and learning for sustainability in HE, by Professor Stephen Sterling:  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/esd/The_Future_Fit_Framework.pdf    Education for Sustainable Development and Holistic Curriculum Change, by Dr Alex Ryan:  http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/esd/ESDandHolisticCurriculumChange_review_and_guide.pdf      Please do circulate these excellent resources widely to your colleagues and through your networks.    Best wishes,  Simon    Simon Kemp  Academic Lead, Education for Sustainable Development  Higher Education Academy      This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please accept our apologies. Please do not disclose, copy, or distribute information in this email nor take any action in reliance on its contents: to do so is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. Please inform us that this message has gone astray before deleting it. Please note that views expressed in this email are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Higher Education Academy. Please note that this e-mail has been created in the knowledge that Internet e-mail is not a secure communications medium. We advise that you understand and observe this lack of security when e-mailing us. Although we have taken steps to ensure this e-mail and attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. The Higher Education Academy Registered No 4930131  

 

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Dear Colleagues,

Re: ESD and National QAA Policy


Quick email to alert you to the release of the new Learning and Teaching
Chapter of the revised UK Quality Code for Higher Education. This will be
accessible from QAA's website as from tomorrow for an eight week consultation
period. The document makes reference to ESD and other cross-cutting education
themes for the first time. Although this is a modest reference within a
section of the Chapter it is a highly significant development.

The new UK Quality Code is a revision of the previous academic infrastructure
that guides institutional teaching and learning policy as well as programme
level curriculum development. For the first time, the Code has a learning
and teaching chapter which includes cross-cutting themes. The QAA will be
watching with interest to gauge the sector response to the inclusion of this
term. It is likely that some sector voices will object, in principle, to the
inclusion of specific education themes.

It is therefore important to take time to articulate the need and value of
ESD becoming part of the sector level educational discourse and to
communicate that this can make a difference to the student experience. We
appreciate it is a very busy time of the year, but ask Shed-Share members to
take time to respond to window of opportunity.

As you may be aware, colleagues engaged in the HEFCE LGM project on ESD and
Quality have been engaged in dialogue behind the scenes to prepare the
ground for this. Other actions are beginning to take shape and strong support
for ESD inclusion in the UK Code will help maintain momentum. We will be
discussing these developments at our forthcoming conference.

Thanks for taking time to support this important development.

all best

Daniella and Alex


HEFCE LGM Project 'Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability: Strategic
Approaches to Quality Enhancement'

Conference weblink:
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Fwd: Call for contributions by 5th June - 'Ways of Knowing: educating for sustainability'

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Subject:	Call for contributions by 5th June - 'Ways of Knowing: educating for sustainability'
Date:	Tue, 29 May 2012 15:03:36 +0100
From:	liane fredericks <lianefredericks@GMAIL.COM>
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June 15th Conference

'Ways of Knowing'/Natural Learning and Environments

https://showtime.gre.ac.uk/index.php/education/nle/schedConf/cfp

We hope you will be interested in attending our second conference and welcome your contributions.  

Very best wishes, Jennifer

Dr Jennifer Patterson

Senior Lecturer, Principal Investigator, Natural Learning and Environments 

University of Greenwich 

School of Education 

Mansion Site, Avery Hill, Bexley Road

Eltham, London, SE9 2PQ

email: j.j.patterson@gre.ac.uk

Tel: 0208 331 8344 (Direct Line)

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HEA STEM: Education for Sustainable Development: Teaching Frameworks & Cross Disciplinary Lessons

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Subject:	The Higher Education Academy's Education for Sustainable Development e-Newsletter
Date:	Fri, 11 May 2012 11:12:11 +0000
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To:	HEA-ESD-NEWS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK

Email not displaying correctly? Click here to view it in your browser. The Higher Education Academy's Education for Sustainable Development e-Newsletter Volume 5, Issue 4 Introduction Education for sustainable development (ESD) is one of the HEA's key themes of work. We help institutions and subject communities develop curricula and pedagogy that will give students the skills and knowledge to live and work sustainably. Through our Discipline Leads we work with all discipline groups on a wide range of ESD-related projects. This is an exciting, but critical time for ESD. We are rapidly approaching the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio +20) and while not a focus, ESD is inherent in the 'greening the economy' theme and underpins all areas of activity around the event. The HEA is involved in work for Rio through supporting sector individuals, strategic partners, and contributing to the World Symposium on Sustainable Development in Universities. We have also recently run a policy 'think tank' on the green economy and graduate attributes. See our news story for full details. We are keen to assist colleagues in their preparations for Rio, so if there is any way we can contribute or help with your work please do contact us. As you may be aware from previous bulletins and the last newsletter this is a period of change for ESD in the HEA. Many thanks to Heather Luna, so long the driving force for our ESD work, and also to Stephen Sterling and Simon Smith for their considerable efforts in advancing ESD in the HEA and across higher education. Simon Kemp Academic Lead, Education for Sustainable Development.     News HEA Policy Think Tank on Graduate Attributes and the Green Economy On 23 and 24 February 2012 we held our first Policy "think tank" to investigate how the HE sector can contribute to 'greening the economy', and how graduate attributes can link into this agenda. The think tank was a stimulating event packed with illuminating discussions, innovative ideas, and valuable contributions from inspirational speakers and delegates from across HE, student bodies, and industry. The outcomes of the event and consultation process will be shared with the rest of the ESD community in due course. The circular economy and higher education The Ellen MacArthur Foundation commissioned the HEA to develop, organise and facilitate three workshops for the HE sector around the concept of the circular economy. The latest one took place in London on 20 January 2012 and focused on the design and engineering curriculum. Sustainability showcases In each future bi-monthly newsletter we aim to showcase the ESD work of a different higher education institution, preferably those who might not be at the forefront of the ESD world, but deserve to have their work disseminated wider. There are many wonderful examples of sustainability in the curriculum, across curricula and research, and whole institutional change that we can all learn from. Please contact me (sustainability@heacademy.ac.uk) if you would like to showcase your work and/or request collaboration and help with colleagues across the community.     Publications, resources and funding The future-fit framework (.pdf 1MB) This new HEA publication, by Professor Stephen Sterling from the Centre for Sustainable Futures, Plymouth, provides readers with a practical introductory guide to learning and teaching for sustainability. While this resource is primarily for academics (including curriculum and educational developers and practitioners), policy makers, senior managers and support staff who want to know more about ESD will also find it helpful. Education for sustainable development and holistic curriculum change: A review and guide (.pdf 1MB) This comprehensive investigative publication, by Dr Alex Ryan, Associate Director of Sustainability at the University of Gloucestershire, is based on an international review and three UK case studies of work towards curriculum change in this area. The guide is aimed at educators and managers in HE institutions seeking to improve teaching and learning institution-wide in line with education for sustainable development. Forthcoming ESD reports We will soon be releasing the second report of our student attitudes to sustainability research work with the National Union of Students. The first report can be read here. Other upcoming ESD publications include an evaluation report for the first phase of Green Academy, and the findings from the Policy think tank on greening the economy and graduate attributes.   Events Green Academy +: Sustainability in practice conference, 24 May 2012, University of Nottingham This joint invite-only event, run by The University of Nottingham Grand Challenge Group on Education for Sustainable Development and the HEA will explore sustainability in the context of the practitioner. Participants will be able to consider and discuss how sustainability 'values' can be or are incorporated into teaching and learning. Annual national greening the FE & HE sectors conference and exhibition: Promoting environmental, economic and social sustainability, 30 May 2012, London. This event will examine the FE and HE sectors' progress towards sustainable development, and detail latest policy information, guidance, best practice and technologies to aid in the delivery process and realisation of the government targets for carbon emission reductions. Professor Craig Mahoney, Chief Executive of the HEA, will be speaking at this event. To book your place please email bookings@govtoday.co.uk quoting ref HEA6. Changing lives, changing society conference, 28 June 2012, University of the West of England This event will bring together professionals, policy makers and academics to grapple with the challenge of a widespread transition to healthy and sustainable behavioural patterns. It will examine the 'big picture' of behavioural change, acknowledging and assessing different perspectives and approaches through expert presentations, innovative workshops and an interactive panel and audience debate. Quality assurance, enhancement and ESD: Creating a framework for dialogue conference, 2 July 2012, Aston University This national conference will bring together findings and insights emerging from the HEFCE-funded project Leading Curriculum Change for Sustainability: Strategic Approaches to Quality Enhancement, drawing on the experiences of the pilot institutions as well as the dialogue and perspectives emerging with sector stakeholders.         About the Higher Education Academy The HEA is a national body for enhancing learning and teaching in higher education in the UK. We work with institutions across the HE system to help bring about change in learning and teaching to improve the outcomes for students. We do this by recognising and rewarding excellent teaching, bringing together people and resources to research and share best practice and by helping influence, shape and implement policy. The HEA supports staff in higher education throughout their career from those who are new to teaching through to senior management. We offer services in 28 disciplines and throughout the UK, and have offices in England, Wales and Scotland. Through the partnership management team we work directly with institutions to understand individual circumstances and priorities and bring together resources to meet them. Owned by Universities UK and Guild HE, the HEA is funded by the four national funding councils, institutional subscriptions and project income. For more recent news, events and funding opportunities, subscribe to Academy Update. The Higher Education Academy, Company Limited by Guarantee Registered Number 4931031. Registered Office: The Higher Education Academy, Innovation Way, York Science Park, Heslington, York, YO10 5BR, United Kingdom. Registered as Charity Number 1101607.

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