Helping students develop sustainability competences and dispositions, that will

prepare them for their futures

Ann FinlaysonCEO, SEEd

A story from Plymouth……

•What do we tell students explicitly?

•What do we tell them implicitly?

•What do we leave out?

Edward Eisner: 3 curricula, Stanford Uni

So we need transformative education……

(not more of the same!)

With learning processes that contain:

• content ( knowledge, skills etc)

• incentive ( motivation, volition, resilience )• interactions ( action, cooperation, collaboration, team working)

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The Good news…..

Sustainability education transformative learning

processes:

• Socially critical thinking

• Outdoor/community learning

• Systems thinking

• Action Learning

• Futures thinking

• Participatory

• Understanding change

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When did you ever change your mind about something ( Aha moment)?

Where were you?

Who were you with?

What triggered this?

What happened next?

Magnetic North

Problem fixed

Apply solution

Identify solution

Identify problem

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True North Magnetic North

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True North Magnetic north

learning

And mostly its about the questions you ask yourself and your students – otherwise you get unintended consequences!

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Thank you!ann.finlayson@se-ed.org

- Sustainability curriculum design

- Monthly sustainability webinars

- Sustainable Schools Alliance

- National evidence gathering for sustainability in education -

March 26th

- National Sustainable schools conference – May 23rd

http://se-ed.co.uk/