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Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Plymouth ESD CETL plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/esd

Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Plymouth ESD CETL www.plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/esd. Dr Stephen Sterling Schumacher Reader in Education for Sustainability. Quote 1: ‘Reinventing the university’.

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Centre for Sustainable Futures at the University of Plymouth ESD CETL plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/esd

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  1. Centre for Sustainable Futuresat the University of PlymouthESD CETLwww.plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/esd Dr Stephen Sterling Schumacher Reader in Education for Sustainability

  2. Quote 1: ‘Reinventing the university’ • ‘…it is pre-eminently in the universities that we should be thinking hardest about the implications of this whole world-system for our common life and its future, and bringing the best of our available intelligence to bear on the necessary changes. If not there, where? If that’s not the business of universities in the early twenty-first century, what on earth are they for?’ • John Foster, 2007 • From review of Michael M’Gonigle’s Planet U: Reinventing the University

  3. Quote 2: ‘Make it relevant’ ‘My perception that universities have pretty well isolated themselves from society, through their academic detachment, and that’s the way they’ve made themselves rather irrelevant to current issues of sustainability, which are absolutely critical. …. And…so I’ve felt that university education has to go radically localised, in the sense of integrating student learning with the local community. Universities have to become dedicated in service to their community….. …that’s something that I see emerging quite strongly now…this is going to radicalise University education, and make it relevant.’ - Academic, University of Plymouth, 2005

  4. Centre for Sustainable Futures • Has a mandate for transforming the University of Plymouth into an institution modelling university-wide excellence in SD/ESD • Aims to have all students engage critically with sustainability agendas and their personal, ethical, professional and personal implications • Seeks to embed ESD into curriculum, learning and teaching across all schools • Undertakes pedagogical and institutional change research so development is research-informed • Aims to play a key role nationally by engaging with HEIs, Higher Education Academy and Subject Centres, HEFCE, EAUC etc

  5. Key structures Core team Centre Fellows Director Asst Director Reader Research Fellow Centre Manager Three Research Assistants Support staff Student placements 20 Centre Fellows across Schools and Faculties EnvironmentCommittee IWG Interdisciplinary curriculum working group Fora Steering Group Reps across UP and external partners Campus Community Curriculum

  6. Wave model of change

  7. Whole systems approach

  8. The four C model CAMPUS CURRICULUM To enhance student and staff experience through embedding sustainability across the curriculum To embed sustainability practice across the UoP campus COMMUNITY CULTURE To contribute to the regional sustainability agenda through university / community partnerships To engage with a cultural backcloth and attendant practices that feed unsustainability

  9. What are your ‘unique selling points’? • Only CETL set up specifically to engage in whole system change • Working to crack the ‘curriculum nut’ • Research emphasis – research ‘about’ and ‘as’ change- nine strands, evaluation and meta research • Four ‘C’ model • Centre Fellow model • Implementing systemic change approach • Student support • Chancellery support • Links with other CETLS – proposed ‘Plymouth Academy’ • Partnership with Schumacher College

  10. What research, tools and otherresources have been created through the Plymouth CSF CETL and how can the sector access these? • Sustainability policy • Generic module • L&T framework • Staff Wiki resource • Research tools: student/staff perceptions; curriculum audit • Website

  11. How is your CETL engaging with the wider HEI community? • Links with: • Regional networking – Partner colleges; SW ESD Coalition; HE SW Academy network • HE Academy ESD Project and Joint Link Group • Papers and articles, book forthcoming, CPD workshops, conference presentations • Links to HEFCE, EAUC, Forum etc • International links – IMESD, UNESCO, GHESP, OECD, Tbilisi plus 30 conference etc

  12. How will the wider HE sector become more sustainable as a result of the Plymouth CSF CETL? • Dissemination – website, papers, seminars, conferences etc • HE Academy ESD Project staff link: module, framework, strategy, conference inputs etc • Staff Wiki resource • Joint projects/initiatives – Bradford, Manchester, Concordia etc • CPD • Feeding into HEFCE Strategic Review and follow-up

  13. Centre for Sustainable FuturesKirkby LodgeUniversity of PlymouthDrake CircusDevon PL4 8AA01752 238890csf@plymouth.ac.ukESD CETLwww.plymouth.ac.uk/cetl/esd Building the future…!

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