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NZAEE conference notes online

March 4, 2008

I’ve been working through my notes from the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education conference we sponsored in Dunedin recently (Five posts up, three-ish more to go). Most of the conference powerpoints have just been posted by the conference organisers. Note though, that they’re only there until the 1st of May – I hope the […]

Working with the integrity of creation to achieve ecological salvation?

March 2, 2008

I’ve been reading an interesting thesis by Xiaming Gong: Church Involvement in Education for Sustainability: Using Participatory Action Research to Design a Faith-based Education for Sustainability Programme in a Christian Community, New Zealand (link, pdf). This is outside my own belief system so apologies in advance if I’ve misinterpreted something here. We’ve been having debates […]

Sustainability status of student intake: seeking feedback on survey design

February 28, 2008

We are preparing a survey to be administered in conjunction with the First Impressions Survey (second week in March). By surveying all incoming students across the institution we’re aiming to create a benchmark that will enable us to follow student progress throughout their education, and possibly beyond. In the first instance finding out what they […]

Formal launch of Sustainable Habitat Challenge

February 25, 2008

Last week we formally launched the Sustainable Habitat Challenge (see earlier posts). Here’s the website. Here’s the newspaper. Here’s the video of the launch (Alistair and Tim and Q&A)…

Posts from NZAEE (6): Bjarne Jensen

February 17, 2008

Bjarne Jensen from the Danish University of Education spoke about participation at the New Zealand Association for Environmental Education in Dunedin recently. He started with his conclusions and worked backwards. To build ownership and action competence in Education for Sustainability: 1. Genuine participation (in dialogue with a professional) 2. Own actions (but should be integrated) […]