APPENDIX 38
Memorandum from the Faculty of Humanities
and Social Science—South Bank University
Part-time distance learning
Slow track distance learning
Full-time supported self study
THE EDUCATION
FOR SUSTAINABILITY
PROGRAMME
This programme brings together:
— environmental education, development
education and education for sustainability;
— NGO expertise and academe;
— theoretical and practical approaches;
— educational approaches within the
UK and those of other countries;
— critical perspectives from a variety
of global regions.
The programme offers a range of postgraduate
qualifications for those who are already involved in or who wish
to become involved in environmental education, development education
and education for sustainability (EE/DE/EFS).
The University Certificate (2 units) has been
developed as an introductory training course for those involved
in or wishing to become involved in, environmental education,
development education and/or education for sustainability. The
two units comprising the short course may be credited towards
the longer courses available if so desired.
The Postgraduate Certificate (4 units) has been
developed as a training course for those who wish to cover a wider
range of issues and sectors of education in EE, DE and/or EFS.
The four units may be credited towards the longer courses available
if so desired.
The Postgraduate Diploma (8 units) has been
developed as a longer training course for those who wish to study
a wider range of issues in EE, DE and/or EFS without taking the
research dissertation element.
The full Masters course (12 units) includes
support for students in preparing a dissertation research plan.
You are then supported in producing an original piece of research
to complete the Masters course.
The rules, regulations and administrative procedures
for the shorter course options are the same as those for the masters
course unless stated otherwise.
The programme has evolved from the work of the
Master Curriculum Project, which was established in September
1992 with major funding from WWF UK (World Wide Fund For Nature)
and the European Community (DGVIII) and supplementary funding
from CAFOD, Christian Aid and Oxfam.
THE PROGRAMME
INTAKE
As the programme can be studied by distance
learning, a great many of our students are studying whilst working.
In addition roughly half of our students come from overseas, many
have their studies funded by NGOs and every year we have some
British Council Chevening Scholarship students. The programme
has wide international credibility and profile, reflected in our
submissions to WSSD in 2002. Students on the programme comprise
educators from formal and informal sectors, local government and
business employees, and NGO communications and education staff.
MODES OF
LEARNING
This programme is taken either by part-time
distance learning or full-time supported self-study at the university.
In distance learning, tutoring is provided primarily through learning
materials. These contain activities which are designed to help
students engage with the materials and to develop skills. All
students receive full feedback on written assignments, which is
designed to help develop knowledge, skills and abilities.
Full-time study is organised as supported self-study
and this also involves a good deal of independent study using
the materials provided. Tutor support in the weekly seminars provided
is designed to help those who are full-time students progress
more quickly with their studies in order to complete the course
in a year. In addition full-time students are encouraged to form
a learning group which can cooperate in undertaking activities
from the study guide and discuss issues and ideas. Students will
he asked to present ideas and findings from these at tutor led
sessions.
PROGRAMME SPECIFIC
AIMS
EE and DE are concerned with teaching and learning
about the environment and development. They place as much emphasis
upon attitudes, values and skills as upon knowledge and its application.
This course reflects critically upon EE, DE and EFS theory and
approaches, their relationship and their contribution to the project
of education for a sustainable future. EE, DE and EFS are therefore
different from environmental, development and sustainability studies
which tend to entail academic study of, respectively, the local
and global environment, development issues, and sustainability
issues, problems and questions. This programme focuses on educational
theory and practice in relation to environmental, development
and sustainability issues but also aims to provide some background
where appropriate.
Programme specific aims are to:
— develop students' understanding,
at an advanced level, of the theory and practice of EE, DE and
EFS
— develop students' understanding of
EE, DE and EFS from different perspectives (multi-disciplinary,
subject-based and cross-phase)
— develop students' ability to research
and critique different conceptions of the relationship between
the environment, development, sustainability and education
— develop students' ability to act
as reflective practitioners, able to evaluate and critique both
their own and others' positions on EE, DE and EFS.
— develop students' ability to analyse
critically their own attitudes and experiences
The programme aims to facilitate:
— information and updating on substantive
issues relevant to environment, development, sustainability and
education
— professional updating on recent theoretical
and empirical developments in the field
— consideration of educational methodologies
appropriate for different contexts
— development of concepts and skills
appropriate to the critical implementation of EE, DE and EfS
— development of theoretical tools
to clarify thinking and argument
— development of critical and analytic
approaches to existing information and practice
— building up of students initiative
and potential for self-study and research
— students' ability to act as an agent
for change in their place of work
The University Certificate, Postgraduate Certificate
and Postgraduate Diploma aim to develop the above in a more limited
form consistent with the amount of study undertaken.
Throughout the courses in this programme, the
term "education" is used in its broadest sense to include
all activities which are intended to be educational, whether they
take place in formal schooling or training, in community education
and youth work, in urban and rural development, in capacity creation
programmes or in public information through the media, or in aspects
of the work of non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The courses
in the programme include discussion of theories and perspectives
on education and its role in social change.
EE, DE and EFS have a distinctive and participatory
character and this is reflected in all aspects of the courses
in this programme. The unit study guides are interactive in the
way that they engage the students and there is considerable scope
for students to identify and negotiate their own pathways, adapting
their study and their coursework to their own interests and needs.
PROGRAMME SPECIFIC
OUTCOMES
By the end of the Masters course the students
should be able to:
— apply an advanced conception of EE,
DE and EFS to their work
— research, critique and analyse a
wide spectrum of conceptions of EE, DE and EFS and global issues,
problems and questions
— develop, present and evaluate EE,
DE and EFS in a variety of educational settings
— evaluate and determine the role that
they, as educators, might play in education for sustainability
— exercise professional leadership
in producing curriculum change, for example through practical
research projects, policy development and strategic planning.
The outcomes of the University Certificate,
the Postgraduate Certificate and the Postgraduate Diploma will
be similar to the above, consistent with the amount of study undertaken.
February 2003
WHO'S
WHO IN
THE EDUCATION
FOR SUSTAINABILITY
PROGRAMME
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social
Sciences: Professor Jeffrey Weeks
Head of Education: Sally Inman
Course Directors: Jenneth Parker and Ros Wade
Course administrator: Alka Clarke-Patel
Personal tutors:
Alka Clarke-Patel, Paul Maiteny, Rosemin Najmudin,
Val Rea
Some of our tutors are based at South Bank University
and some at different institutions or with environmental or development
NGOs. Several are international experts in their area. They enrich
the programme by bringing a wealth of both practical experience
and theoretical expertise.
Outline of Course team backgrounds and research
interests
| Name of Tutor and Teaching duties on the MSc EE DE
| Background and (where relevant) administrative duties
| Research interests/publications |
Eileen Adams
Unit 8 and dissertation tutor
| Consultant on environmental education, Researcher at South Bank University
| Action research and children's participation
Project Leader of Power Drawing
Publications include (with I Kinoshati) (2000)
Machi-work: Education for Participation, Fudosha, Japan Trentham Books
|
Barrie Cooper
Unit 4 and dissertation tutor
| International Education Adviser for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB)
| Overseas NGOs and formal education
Publications include: Co-writer of `Ecosystems and Human Activity' (1994) Collins
Co-writer `Lifelong learning for a sustainable future' in book `Lifelong and Continuing Education' (1999) Ashgate
|
Louise Douglas
Dissertation tutor
| Education Adviser for Oxfam's Development Education Programme, formerly Education Co-ordinator Minority Rights Group
| Use of images in educational materials
Publications include: `Young Refugee children in Holland and North London' 1998 Minority Rights Group
Co-writer Unit One MSc EE DE
|
Ange Grunsell
Unit 2 and dissertation tutor
| Programme Manager for Oxfam's Development Education Programme,
Former lecturer at the Urban Learning Foundation
| Globalisation, values and education
Ange has written a large number of DE materials for teachers
Co-writer Unit Two MSc EE DE
|
John Huckle
Dissertation tutor
| Former principal lecturer in geographical and environmental education at De Montfort university
Consultant for World Wide fund for Nature in UK and China
| Political change and education for sustainability (EfS), ecology
Publications include (with Stephen Sterling):
`Education for Sustainability', (1996) Earthscan (Supplementary book for Unit 7)
(with A Martin) `Environments in a Changing World' (2001) Prentice Hall
|
Paul Maiteny
Personal and unit 4, 5 and dissertation tutor
Co-writer revised
Ut 5
Writer new unit 6
| Associate lecturer at Open University, adviser, consultant and independent academic.
| EfS and spiritual and emotional change
Publications include: (with R L Ison) (2000) in Systems Practice and Action Research
`Appreciating systems; critical reflection on the changing nature of systems-learning society'
|
John Meadows
Fulltime SBU staff
Unit 2 and dissertation tutor
| Senior Lecturer in education South Bank University
| ICT and environmental education
Guest lecture on `EE, Sustainability and the Internet' at University of South Africa 2001
|
Rosemin Najmudin
Personal, unit 2 and 6 and dissertation tutor
| Coordinator DEA Ethnic Minorities Group
Researcher for Croydon LEA
| Food Technology education and ethnic minority food cultures
Publications include: 1999 Six booklets for use in science teaching: `Astronomy, Food and Nutrition, Housing, Herbal Remedies, Soap and Sound—A Cultural and Global Perspective' VSO London
Black Voices (2000) DEA
(with Lewis) Collaboration and Partnership with BEMS (1999) DEA
|
Malcolm Plant
Unit 8 and dissertation tutor
| Principal lecturer in environmental education at Nottingham Trent university
| Distance learning-collaborative pedagogical processes, North-South issues, poverty alleviation
Publications include: Education for Sustainable Development Education: a unified approach to environmental education, in Y. Ziaka (ed) Environmental Education for the 21st century, Greece, Polis
|
Jenneth Parker
Co Course Director
Unit 3, 6
dissertation tutor
| Course Director on the EfS programme at South Bank university, academic co-ordinator for course development programme
PT tutor at Centre for Continuing Education Sussex university; has taught a wide range of environment and development courses to adults.
| Civil society, social movements and EfS, Ecofeminism, environmental ethics, critical realist philosophy and environment and development.
Publications include: Indigenous, local and traditional knowledges: issues for higher education in a period of rapid globalisation, in New Era in Education, Dr Sneh Shah (ed) 2000
Co-writer Units 1,3 and 4 EFS Programme
|
Alka Clarke-Patel
Tutor Unit 1
Personal &
Dissertation tutor
(temporary administrator)
| Formerly co-ordinator for Action Aid Reflect programme Bangladesh, Formerly a Programme Manager South Asia for Marie Stopes International
Now working as a consultant
| NGO education and action
Publications include: The Women's Handbook, DSC 1996
Co-writer of revised Unit 4 EFS Programme
|
Robinson Rojas
| Former Senior lecturer in Development Studies South Bank university (retired)
| Dependency perspectives on Latin America
|
Tutor Unit 4, 6
Dissertation tutor
| External Examiner for Development and Planning Unit (London University)
| Produced and set up the Rojas Globalisation and Development Databank. This can be accessed through the South Bank university LISA site (See section on the library)
|
Val Rea
Tutor Unit 3 and dissertation
Personal tutor
| Former education adviser for Intermediate Technology, Adult Literacy teacher
Mentor for Personal tutors EFS Programme
| Teaching and learning in HE and basic skills
Publications includes:- Boiling Point Review: Towards an impact assessment (1999) ITDG
Co-writer Unit 3 EFS Programme
|
Stephen Sterling
Tutor Unit 7
| Education Adviser for World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF); guest lecturer at Schumacher College
| Systems Thinking and Education for Sustainability
Publications include: `Good Earth Keeping', (1994)
Writer Unit 7 EFS Programme
|
Glenn Strachan
| EFS Consultant, formerly Head of Education at the Earth Centre
| Independent consultant in education and sustainability
Publications include `An Operational Plan for the Yorkshire and Humber Region's Sustainable Development Education Strategy, Yorkshire Forward and University of Bradford (2002);
Education for self-esteem, in Green Futures, Number 30, September/October 2001
|
Ros Wade
Co Course Director
Tutor Unit 1,7
| Course Director EFS programme South Bank university, academic co-ordinator of course development programme
Education Adviser Oxfam,
Management committee member of SBU Centre for Cross Curricular Initiatives
Member of Faculty of Humanities Academic Board
Member of Development Education Association Higher Education Committee
| Global citizenship and EfS
Publications include: (joint editor)
`Shaping a Better future, Development Education in initial Teacher Education', (1997) Oxfam
Co-writer Unit 2 EFS Programme
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