School Of EducationEnvironmental Education and AdvocacyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101653.1
Discipline: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
In 2016 this unit replaced by 102157 - Ecopedagogies. 'Sustainability' and the change required to achieve it present numerous challenges. A social-ecological approach to learning for sustainability emphasises learning as a reciprocal process, engaging the self, others and the notion of sustainability itself. Learning, advocacy and future sustainability will be addressed alongside the orientations, goals and outcomes through which such work is valued. Environmental education and advocacy are imagined here as ethically grounded forms of participation in community and ways of enacting responsibilities. Project work in this unit will be structured around personal sustainability, sustainable systems, relationships, institutions and the educational contexts of individual students.