Sustainable Education and Perspectives
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- On-campus: 12 hours face to face + Blended Swinburne online - Nil
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2023 teaching periods
Hawthorn Higher Ed. Semester 2 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Swinburne Online Teaching Period 3 |
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Prerequisites
100cpOR
EDU20006 Curriculum, Planning and Assessment for Primary: Practicum 2
Corequisites
NilAims and objectives
2. Critically reflect upon their own attitudes and values in relation to sustainability perspectives and how these effect their teaching and professional role.
3. Consider concepts and themes related to environmental sustainability and describe how they can be integrated into learning in an education setting.
4. Analyse the concept of ecological literacy and articulate the benefits and limitations of becoming eco-literate.
5. Create a school profile with a holistic range of teaching and learning strategies to integrate sustainable perspectives, critical thinking, values and citizenship objectives implicit in reorienting education towards sustainable futures.
Courses with unit
BA-EDUEC/EDUEC22 Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood)
BA-EDUPRI/EDUPRI1 Bachelor of Education (Primary)
AB-EDU Associate Degree of Education
Major and Co-Major Environmental Sustainability
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
On-Campus Class | 2 | 12 | 24 |
Live Online Lecture | 1 | 12 | 12 |
Specified Activities Prescribed readings, Online activities | 6 | 8 | 48 |
Unspecified Activities Independent study, Assignment preparation, Readings | 5.5 | 12 | 66 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Swinburne Online
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 12.5 | 12 | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
Assignment | Group | 40% | 1, 2 |
Report | Individual | 60% | 1, 3, 4, 5 |
Content
• Articulate the complex issue of sustainability between and within communities, societies and cultures at local and global levels.
• Recognise the historically and culturally situated concept of environmental change in the Anthropocene.
• Four pillars of sustainability: social, economic, political and environmental.
• Systems of relatedness with self, communities, environment, and Earth species.
• The role of education to teach understandings of sustainability for positive change.
• Teachers’ roles as advocates for social inclusion, justice and sustainable futures.
• Curriculum and government policies.
• Eco-biographical narratives.
• Ecological literacy and ecologising education.
• Designing sustainable and environmental curricula.
• Case studies of sustainable practice, pedagogy and initiatives.
Study resources
- Reading materials and recommended reading.