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Sustainable Societies: Practical Education for Sustainable
Development
Innovations in Teaching and Learning MESA UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME:
Educate the Educators
ESD Innovation Course (UNEP/SADC-REEP)
Kenya School of Monetary Studies,
Nairobi-Kenya
4-9 May 2006
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MESA University Programme
• TASK - Integrate ESD issues into higher education
• AIM - ESD issues become part of all programs over the next 8 years
• OBJECTIVE - courseware and methodology to start the ESD mainstreaming process
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Desired MESA Outcomes
• A general ESD course that can be used at home
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Sustainable Societies
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Objectives
• Develop sustainability issue literacy
• Develop students’ abilities to critique and create strategies that address sustainability challenges
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Description
• A one semester course that is relevant, usable, clear, applicable, measurable
• Focused on cross-sectoral sustainability issues and strategies to address them
• Designed to complement existing programs
• Designed for IL and ICT delivery
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Balanced
Social Economic Environmental
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Equally relevantSocial Sciences
Natural Sciences
Agriculture
Engineering
Health
Business
Law
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Structure
• Case Study-based
• UNCSD sustainability issues
• Uses existing UN materials
• 3 parts
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Part 1 – Introduction
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Part 2 – Case Study and associated issues
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Part 2 - Issue scalability
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Part 3 – Application
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OutcomesIssue Literacy Capacity for
Strategy CreationAbility to use information
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What’s different• Student-centric• Addresses all UNCSD issues• Emphasis on change of thinking• Final exam is provided at the start of the course• All work published to a searchable data
warehouse• Scalable • Can be used for private, NGO and government
sector training / sensitizing
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ESD across entire curriculum
• Breaks the discipline-based straightjacket
• Supports university needs to:– Provide relevant / applicable learning– Focus on development priorities– Support community needs– Develop students’ problem-solving capabilities
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Building ESD throughout Africa
• Develop a network of affiliated universities– Building and sharing cases that address real
SD needs– Sharing issue materials and knowledge– Creating and publishing student projects– Providing an open database of ESD materials
• Create universal SD issue literacy
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The future?
Potential to impact African Universities over 8 years
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ENVIRONIC FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL, INC.
3503 HUTCH PLACE CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND 20815-4736 USA
Phone: 301-654-7160Fax: 301- 654-3710
E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.environicfoundation.org
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The following are extra slides
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Part 1 – Introduction
Objective: Initial subject and issue literacy
• Orientation• Give Pre-Test• Student team builds solution• Introduce 25 Sustainability Issues• Define Sustainable Development• Provide final exam
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Part 2 – Case study and associated issues
Objectives: Applied issue literacy
Ability to critique
• Introduce case
• SD Issues associated with the case
• Issue inter-relationships
• Remaining issues
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Part 3 – Application
Objective: Ability to synthesize and create SD strategies
• Second case (final exam)
• Student team reports out
• Post-test