UK Centre for Materials Education
Working with you to enhance the student experience
Working with you to enhance the student experience
As you may know, the Higher Education Academy is exploring education for sustainable development so as to assist those institutions and academic colleagues who want to make it part of their teaching provision.
Building on the initial findings of previous research (principally the Dawe et al. report), the Higher Education Academy would like to take the integration of sustainability further and has commissioned Forum for the Future, the UK’s leading sustainable development charity*, to carry out a baseline study with the aim of identifying existing good practice across all subjects. The end result of this research will be a summary of the findings which will then be distilled into a web-based good practice resource for lecturers and HEI’s wanting to develop sustainability literacy within their curricula.
We would really value finding out if and how you/colleagues incorporate sustainability into your courses. We are looking to capture the type of curriculum material and teaching approaches you have developed. We are also interested in understanding any barriers to or opportunities for, embedding sustainability into your courses.
A short questionnaire has been designed to aid capture. If you would like a bit more information or examples to help you complete it, do get in touch. We want to promote the sharing of good practice but if you wish to remain anonymous then leave the ‘submitted by’ blank.
Download the Education for Sustainable Development Survey (DOC 74KB)
Please return the questionnaire by 29 September 2006.
If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us at sdsurvey@forumforthefuture.org.uk (or Simon Smith: S.G.Smith@leeds.ac.uk or Heather Witham: h.witham@bristol.ac.uk at the Higher Education Academy,)
*Our Leadership for Sustainable Development Masters Programme has led Forum’s mission for the past 10 years. Other partnerships include the Sustainability Integration Group (SIGnet), which brings together the bodies that fund, plan and regulate the post-school education sector. A range of projects, including the Engineer for the 21st Century programme and work with professions put Forum at the forefront of transforming the way the post-school learning and skills sector address the sustainability challenge.
