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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Learning for a Sustainable Future
The University of Edinburgh and Learning for Sustainability Scotland
Climate change, gender equality, health, social equity, and inclusion are issues that affect us all, impacting human well-being and economic stability. How to live a sustainable life affects – and connects - us all. On this five-week course, you developed an informed personal response to these major challenges and were supported to take positive actions towards a sustainable future. You learned about current global issues and considered how we can all take action, personally or locally.
5 weeks, 2 hours per week
Beth Christie
Senior Lecturer in Learning for Sustainability
The University of Edinburgh
Peter Higgins
Professor of Outdoor, Environmental & Sustainability Education
Learning for Sustainability Scotland
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Critically reflect upon understandings of the range, scope and nature of 'sustainability'.
- Consider the role of personal values and frameworks for thinking when investigating sustainability issues.
- Explore the way in which systems, connections and factors such as intersectionality influence the impact of sustainability issues.
- Investigate how we might move towards action within our own spheres of influence.
- Identify and investigate a sustainability issue and share possible next steps towards taking action.
- Examine educational approaches that may help to develop a response to global challenges.
Syllabus
- Examining thinking
- Values and frameworks
- Systems and connections
- Moving to action
- Futures thinking
Issued on 10th October 2021
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