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UNE unit code: EDUC304
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Unit information
Education for Sustainability is a changing and complex issue in Pacific Island environments and building your knowledge and skills in this area will help to future proof your career in a variety of educational settings. Studying this unit will equip you with a combination of theoretical knowledge, skill development and reflection opportunities. It explores a wide range of learning approaches across the early childhood, primary and secondary curricula through the lens of Pacific Island environments.
You will develop key concepts, attitudes and skills to create education for sustainability and explore how these can be integrated across the primary and secondary curricula. It highlights the importance and diversity of Pacific Island environments, including human and technological impacts, and provides opportunities to refine your skills in observing, reporting and communicating data. Moreover, you will learn how to adopt concepts of Education for Sustainability into teaching across the curriculum at a primary level and into a specific discipline area at a secondary level and share your views on Education for Sustainability and its implications for your professional practice and/or career goals.
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Learning outcomes
Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- demonstrate advanced knowledge and research-based skills in the pedagogies of Education for Sustainability;
- identify the diversity of and interrelationships between the physical and living components of Pacific Island environments (including human and technological impacts), and develop skills to explore, observe, measure, record, interpret, represent and communicate data pertaining to the environment;
- adopt concepts of Education for Sustainability into their teaching across the curriculum at the primary level and into their specific discipline area at the secondary level;
- evaluate the importance of safe learning environments, with attention to sequence and alignment of appropriate outcomes, activities and assessment within teaching / learning sequences;
- critically evaluate contemporary teaching resources and units of work for Education for Sustainability themes; and
- articulate their personal position in relation to Education for Sustainability, and its implications for their professional practice.
Assessment information
Assessments are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
| Title | Must Complete | Weight | Offerings | Assessment Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 | Yes | 50% | All offerings | Formal Written Assessment on a Pacific environmental issue No. Words: 2000 |
| Assessment 2 | Yes | 50% | All offerings | Programming Task based on Assessment 1 No. Words: 2000 |
Learning resources
Textbooks are subject to change up to 8 weeks prior to the start of the teaching period in which you are undertaking the unit.
Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Educating for Sustainability in Primary Schools: Teaching for the Future
ISBN: 9789463000444
Taylor, N., Quinn, F. and Eames, C., Sense Publisher 2015
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