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| The Education for Sustainability Swirl. |
In this topic you will be exploring the meaning of sustainability for
your teaching practice and for your learners. This includes thinking
about the 'greening' of education, and how to create a lot out with the
smallest possible a footprint. Sustainable approaches influence student
and teacher workloads and are strongly linked to open education
resources (OER) and practices (OEP). You need to figure out how you can
be a more sustainable educator. It is also about using
teaching approaches that support
effective pedagogy and
action competence:
Co-operative learning, Inquiry learning, Experiential learning and
Reflection. Some principles are general to all teachers (e.g., workloads
and definitions of OER) and others will be specific to your context
(e.g., embedding principles of sustainability specific to your
discipline, and using open resources).
Read more on the
course wiki.
Look for a summary of participants' activities - coming soon.
Trying this out for the first time. Am slowly wrapping my head around this sustainable education, and intrigued where the reading and searches take me. Sustainability and health have a strong link, and of course as global warming takes place the effects on those who live in the tropics are grossly affected with increases in all sorts of health risks.