This free one-day conference explores how students can shape sustainability in the curriculum. It combines expert student and staff speakers with the opportunity to simulate a UN Sustainable Development Goals summit, providing a holistic exploration of how students shape their own teaching and learning experience.
Speakers include Charlotte Taylor (NUS), Felix Spira (Rootability), Zoe Robinson (Keele University) as well as input from Southampton students and Students’ Union.
The HEA/NUS research on student attitudes to sustainability provides an excellent body of evidence that students believe sustainability should be covered by their university. The focus of the day, however, is to provide a platform for students and staff to work together to shape the embedding of ESD within the teaching and learning.
The day will end with participants taking part in an innovative simulated UN Sustainable Development Goals Summit, exploring the challenges in achieving consensus on global sustainability issues.
The seminar is free to attend, but a place must be reserved. Please register online: http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/events/detail/2014/Seminars/Themes/GEN972_Southampton
More details can be found on the website: http://southampton.likn.co/sustainabilityaction/news/events/2014/02/25_educating_global_citizens.page