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Tolley score: Economic blinkers 17, anything else Nil.

April 30, 2009

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I knew the government was focussed on the economy but I’ve just been blown away by the lack of vision, short-sightedness and one-track mindedness shown by Education Minister Anne Tolley.    She just gave a very bland speech on “Tertiary Education Policy in 2009” at the Tertiary Education Summit.  She says tertiary education is critical […]

From the margins to the centre

April 28, 2009

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At the UN DESD conference I was at a workshop on integrating Education for Sustainability into curriculum plans.    The workshop had the theme of “from the margins to the centre” and was by far the most productive session I attended. In one section, Robert Schreiber of the Hamburg Ministry of Education presented the German model of […]

Simple pledge: towards sustainable practice

April 27, 2009

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You asked for it, here’s Otago Polytechnic’s book as an embedded pdf.    Read in full screen to read the words.   It’s perhaps in the wrong order in this format – when printed landscape, one tends to look at the picture and narrative on the right before the detailed words on the left. Very […]

Simple pledge as a powerpoint

April 27, 2009

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Here’s the slideshow for the keynote presentation I gave at last week’s Professional Development Conference.

Otago Polytechnic’s Simple Pledge: towards sustainable practice

April 27, 2009

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My compilation of images representing sustainability a few weeks back (goal, 158 approaches) was prompted by our desire to tell our story.  The result is Otago Polytechnic’s simple pledge to do the right thing –  illustrated in a book: Simple Pledge. These pages tell the narrative in words and pictures.  The pages facing these ones […]