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Environmental Memoirs Educational Program
Contributing schools:
Attention Teachers
The Environmental Memoirs Project commenced in February 2006, on an international level to collect a series of memoirs from people living within degrading ecological environments. This project continues at the national level seeking stories written by Australian school students.
We aim to promote UNESCO’s Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, by collecting memoirs (personal reflections) on the severity of environmental change and degradation observed in a lifetime. This work will highlight the connection between the past and present human action, building cross cultural understanding and awareness.
You can be involved by encouraging late primary and early-mid secondary students to participate in this project to:
- Interview a senior member of the community about an environmental issue experienced in their lifetime
- Document their findings in the form of a memoir
- Submit a memoir for web publication
Register your interest by contacting:
Kathryn Donnelly, Project Manager
National Centre for Sustainability at Swinburne
Ph (03) 9210 1903
Email ncs@swin.edu.au |
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Selected memoirs will be published on the Environmental Memoirs
website www.swinburne.edu.au/ncs/environmentalmemoirs
and collated on cd-rom. A series of fact sheets will be made
available to teachers for future use.
"Environmental Memoirs is supported by the Australian National Commission for UNESCO through the International Relations Grants Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; and the Victorian Government Department of Education and Early Childhood Development".
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