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STENZ Tertiary Education Strategy submission

November 6, 2009

STENZ Submission on Tertiary Education Strategy: 1. Status and interest of submitter This submission is presented on behalf of the Sustainability in Tertiary Education in New Zealand. STENZ is a working group dedicated to the United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (UNDESD) across all tertiary education in New Zealand. STENZ aims to provide […]

Almost 350

October 23, 2009

Including sleep, there’s 15 hours until we have to be coherent and on show for 350. Student projects are rapidly emerging and getting hurried testing (hopefully not too hurried!). If you’re in Dunedin, come and see us at the Spring Festival. (more Flickr images).

Need to mobilise submissions for sustainability in higher education (NZ)

October 17, 2009

The draft Tertiary Education Strategy is out for consultation. It gives direction to NZ’s tertiary education for the next five years. The draft is weak on sustainability: it’s alluded to in the higher level statements but missing in the directions for teaching and learning. As it stands, institutions will not see sustainability as an imperative, […]

Changing habits of thought

September 24, 2009

Stephen Sterling argues that we need to think ecologically (Ecological intelligence from Handbook of Sustainable Literacy). He says that this is more than systems thinking, it has an embedded caring: So ecological thinking – reflected in ecophilosophy – is essentially relational or connective thinking, but it’s also more than that: it is ethical, valuative, and […]

Education needs to transform to model living with ambiguity and uncertainty

September 22, 2009

Here’s my favourite quotes from Anne Phillip’s chapter Institutional transformation in the Handbook of Sustainable Literacy. The whole book is available online from University of Brighton. The educational system, of course, is at the heart of our current unsustainable society, being both its product and its creator It is probable that the people taking the […]