higher education academy conference 23 june 2010 engaging future leaders heather luna, simon smith,...
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Higher Education Academy Conference23 June 2010
Engaging Future Leaders
Heather Luna, Simon Smith, and Stephen Sterling
Higher Education Academy
ESD Project
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Aims of the Session
• To consider the skills that will enable graduates to be
sustainability literate• To examine current thinking and practice in skills
development in ESD• To look at the gaps between desired positions and
actual practice, and discuss how these can be bridged
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Post-It Notes
What skills should sustainability-literate graduates possess?
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Academy ESD Project
• Began 2005 in line with UN Decade of ESD• ‘Dawe report’ – skills (p31):
– Interdisciplinary skills
– Ethical skills and the skills necessary to put sustainability into practice
– Critical and reflective thinking
– Knowledge of the practical impacts that their decisions will have
– Awareness of the facts surrounding sustainability challenges, and the skills necessary to play a part in their solution
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Academy ESD work
• Commissioned reports • Events• Publications• Funded small grants to develop and share good
practice• Newsletter and bulletin (
[email protected])• Networking: SHED / ESDGC group in Wales• Website: www.heacademy.ac.uk/esd
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Employable Graduates for Responsible Employers
– undertaken by StudentForce for Sustainability
– surveyed students, employers, careers advisors
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The trend to more responsible employers is affecting the graduate job market and the demand for more particular competencies from recent graduate recruits.
The graduate employability agenda is now closely linked to the employer sustainability agenda.
There is mounting evidence that, and media coverage about how, students want to work for ethical employers who are environmentally and socially responsible.
Many HEIs are responding to the challenges of ESD through institutional changes in terms of ‘Campus, Curriculum and Community’, but not so much in terms of competencies or careers.
The Evidence
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Small and Mini-Grant Funding
• Experiencing Sustainable Development (Brighton)• Making Sustainability Real (QUB)• Are Employers Seeking Sustainability-Literate
Graduates? (Kingston)• Developing Participative ESD to Enhance Links
between Sustainability Literacy, Sustainability Competencies, and Employability (UWE)
• Development of Sustainability Skills through Volunteering (London Met)
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Small and Mini-Grant Funding
• Greening Business: Employability and Sustainability (Keele)
• Improving Student Awareness of SD and Related Employability Issues through Embedded Course Content (Hull)
• Soundings in Sustainability Literacy (Glos)• ESD in the Professional Curriculum (Dundee)
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What do we want our students to be?
‘Where should priorities lie?...in a period of considerable change, it is important for universities to reflect on questions of purpose and value as well as solutions to immediate dilemmas...such reflection constitutes a valuable tool for navigating the uncertain waters of contemporary higher education and providing strong orientation for the future.’- Prof David Greenaway , 2010
Centre for Integrative Studies
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‘The future isn’t what it used to be’
stresses
unsustainabilityuncertainty dense
interdependence
globalisation
complexityecosystem
degradation inequity
insecurities
global warming peak oil
overconsumption
population pressures
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Future Leaders Survey 07/08
25 000 applicants to universities and colleges surveyed
‘The survey paints a picture of a generation that is intensely aware of the big challenges facing the planet and eager to see broader social and political change…..’
- Forum for the Future/ UCAS 2008
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David Holmgren – Future Scenarios 2009
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The call to respond
To meet the challenge of climate change, ‘the world needs minds capable of creating new possibilities’.
HE provides a ‘vital platform’ for the transition to a low carbon economy, in order to ‘safeguard a secure future’
- Lord Stern, Foreword to HEFCE’s current strategic statement and action plan Sustainable Development in Higher Education (2009)
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‘Daunting agenda…exciting possibilities’
• Power civilisation by sunlight• Grow food and fibre sustainably• Dis-invent the concept of waste• Preserve biodiversity• Restore ruined ecologies• Reduce materials, water and land use per head• Rethink the political basis of modern societies• Develop economies that can be sustained within nature’s
limits• Distribute wealth fairly within and between generations
- David Orr
Nine challenges
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What would you suggest is important?
A) Attitudes; values; dispositions
B) Understanding, knowledge, concepts
C) Skills, practical abilities
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Sustainability competence (Gestaltungscompetenz)
(Germany)
• Competence to work in an interdisciplinary manner• Competence to achieve open-minded perception
transculturalunderstanding and cooperation • Participatory competence• Planning and implementation competence • Ability to feel empathy, sympathy and solidarity • Competence to motivate oneself and others • Competence to reflect in a distanced manner on individual and
cultural concepts• Competence to think in a forward-looking manner, to deal with
uncertainty, and with predictions, expectations and plans for the future
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Closing the gaps….
Current practice Desirable outcomes (graduate qualities and skills) Barriers?
Possibilities?
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Small Group Discussions: 20 minutes
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Feedback
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