What is ed lecture

Hey everyone! Today's guest lecturer for What is Ed was Graham Allen, who is the Environmental Manager in Swansea Metropolitan University and he talked about Sustainable Education. He talked a great deal about the many parts of Sustainable Education, here are some of the points he made:

• Education is critical for promoting sustainable development.
• Agenda 21 (Clarifies and extends ability, encourages students to reflect, debate and form opinions

Coporate responsibility involves:

• Coroporate strategy
• Integration
• Management
• Performance and impact
• Community
• Environment
• Market Place
• Work Place

Digression: The benefits of growth involves:

• Employment
• Income increases
• Decrease in poverty
• Improves standards of living
• Economic stability
• Creativity
• Innovation

GDP (Gross Domestic Product)
Causes:War

• Deforestation
• Crime
• Pollution

Not included:

• Loss of natural resources
• Caring work
• Womens work

Employment

• Sharing work hours
• Higher working hours means less marginal benefit
• Shorter working
• hours means more jobs and more leisure time.

Political Strategy

• The public can be part of the trnssition to sustainable society
• Global down-turn is in part a result of avoiding the inevitable signs
• Public need leadership to work towards sustinability
• National Assembly has a duty to promote sustainable development in everything that it does

And the principles of embedding sustainable development as a central organising principle

• Long termism
• Integration
• Involvement

5 themes of ESDGC (Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship):

1. Links between society, economy, environment and our lives
2. Rights for the present and future generations
3. Relationship between power, resources and human rights
4. Local and global implications
5. Actions individuals cn take in response to the implications

Welsh Government recommends that ESDGC continues to be delivered through:

• Leadership
• Learning nd teching
• Practice within an HEI
• Partnership and community working
• Research

Finally! The three components of sustainble development are: environment, economic and social sustainability.

Well that's everything, toodles!