1. Becoming a Learning for Sustainability Champion
15/03/2019
Becoming a Learning for Sustainability Champion
Betsy King, Learning for Sustainability Scotland
Lauren LaRocca, EAUC Scotland
June 13th 2019 BK

2. 15/03/2019
Aims of the workshop
Understand Learning for Sustainability (LfS) at institutional, national and global levels
Consider ways to embed sustainability themes in teaching practice
Discuss the potential to develop whole institution Learning for Sustainability approaches BK

3. Defining Learning for Sustainability
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Defining Learning for Sustainability
1) Visit sli.do in your browser
2) Use the Room Code XXXXX
3) Answer the Question:
What words do you associate with Learning for Sustainability?
Type a single word or a phrase of words
Submit each one separately and add as many as you like BK
LL to prep Sli.do

4. Starting Points
Betsy - Image from Learning for Sustainability Scotland
Most people might think of sustainability as a job for estates, reducing carbon emissions within the buildings, getting everyone to use bikes and public transport to reduce their carbon footprint. But actually sustainability is a job for everyone, a whole institutional approach.
Colleges are hear to teach students skills and equip them with knowledge for work, they are hear as a support the local community and the skills that will be needed in the future.

5. The Current Sustainability Context
Rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental context. Impacts of the Anthropocene. Changing nature of the world raises questions:
Can we educate for a stable socio-economic environment as in the past? Urgent action is needed to address global and planetary issues.
Changes in funding, recession, BREXIT, What is the role and purpose of Further Education? Academia? Preparation for the workplace?
What is meaningful teaching and learning in the context of these changes?

6. Learning for Sustainability
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Learning for Sustainability
Generic competences:
Critical thinking and independent enquiry
Self-management
Effective participation (and listening)
Team working
Reflective learning
Creative thinking.
Key sustainability competences:
Connections and interdependences (systems thinking)
Visioning and looking forward
Empathy and engaging with others
Ethics and values
Action-orientated and change agent skills
Coping with complexity and uncertainty.
Learning and Skills Improvement Service 2013 –Embedding Sustainability into Teaching, Learning and the Curriculum in the learning and skills sector BK

7. Learning for Sustainability
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Learning for Sustainability
Learning for Sustainability (ESD) empowers learners to take informed decisions and responsible actions for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society, for present and future generations, while respecting cultural diversity. It is about lifelong learning, and is an integral part of quality education. ESD is holistic and transformational education which addresses learning content and outcomes, pedagogy and the learning environment. It achieves its purpose by transforming society.
UNESCO 2019 BK

8. Learning for Sustainability
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Learning for Sustainability
Learning for sustainability (LfS) is an approach to life and learning which enables learners, educators, schools and their wider communities to build a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society. An effective whole school and community approach to LfS weaves together global citizenship, sustainable development education and outdoor learning to create coherent, rewarding and transformative learning experiences.
Education Scotland 2019 BK

9. Learning for Sustainability
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Learning for Sustainability
Sustainability in learning and teaching
Themes of sustainability and the impacts of course-relevant decisions on people and the environment, should permeate teaching practice, inform it, and be made explicit to learners.
College Development Network 2018 BK

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Global Context for LfS BK

11. Scotland Context for LfS
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Scotland Context for LfS BK

12. Further Education context for LfS
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Further Education context for LfS
Leadership in Environmental and Social Sustainability
‘provide a better learner experience for both students and staff and ensure that students develop the understanding of environmental and social sustainability required for the workplaces of tomorrow’. Scottish Funding Council, October 2018
College Lecturers Professional Standards – ‘Sustainability in learning and teaching: Themes of sustainability and the impacts of course relevant decisions on people and the environment, should permeate teaching practice, inform it, and be made explicit to learners.’
College Development Network December 2018 BK

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BK/LL

14. 15/03/2019
LfS and Your Subject
Where are there/could there be links between your subject area and:
The global/local sustainability themes addressed in the SDGs?
Your college campus sustainability developments? LL

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LfS and Your Subject
Where are there/could there be links between the global/local sustainability themes addressed in the SDGs and D&A College campus developments and your subject areas? LL

16. Whole institution approach BK Everybody engaged/responsibility
Ethos/Strategy
Buildings
Teaching/influence
Community links
‘We expect leadership in environmental and social sustainability to
strengthen the competitiveness of Scottish tertiary education,
minimising financial and reputational risks,
offering innovative opportunities for growth,
assisting in attracting and retaining talented staff,
enhancing the learner experience, and
ensuring students develop the understanding of environmental and social sustainability required for the workplaces of tomorrow.
Chapter 4. Advancing ESD Policy to Achieve Quality Education for Sustainable Development. Didham, 2018

17. College Learning for Sustainability Champions
15/03/2019
College Learning for Sustainability Champions
Time
Theme
4 hours
Introduction
Weeks 1 and 2
Online
Introduction to Learning for Sustainability (LfS)
Weeks 3 and 4
LfS: exploring values and perspectives
Weeks 5 and 6
LfS: teaching and learning in an interdependent world
Weeks 7 and 8
LfS: opportunities for student engagement
Weeks 9 and 10
Developing strategies for support and action
3 hours
Final session BK

18. College Learning for Sustainability Champions
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College Learning for Sustainability Champions BK

19. College Learning for Sustainability Champions
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College Learning for Sustainability Champions
1.Performing Arts –HND Dance: End of year show (18 students, 180 people over 3 nights)
Theme of plastics, climate change, responsibility
Plastic/cardboard collected over 3 weeks
Costumes from charity shops

20. College Learning for Sustainability Champions
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College Learning for Sustainability Champions
2. Hospitality and professional cookery
Growing seasonal vegetables, herbs and fruit for use in kitchen to service customers.
Collaboration with -horticulture science
Big Picture-planning a restaurant.
Students understand why growing your own produce is important. BK
Becca has the flip chart notes!

21. College Learning for Sustainability Champions
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College Learning for Sustainability Champions
How would LfS Champions work in your College? BK

22. Contacts? Betsyking@lfsscotland.org llarocca@eauc.org.uk 15/03/2019
BK/LL