ESS741 - Sustainability and Environmental Education

Unit details

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Joe Ferguson
Cohort rule:This unit is only available to students enrolled in D304, D351, E760, E763, E765
Prerequisite:

D304 students must also have passed 24 credit points of study at levels 1, 2 & 3 with a minimum WAM of 60%

Students enrolled in course E763 or E765 commencing from 2020, must pass unit EEE754 plus 1 unit from EEE755, EEE756, EPR731, EPR751, EPR781

Corequisite:Nil
Incompatible with: Nil
Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

In Person Attendance Requirements
Students who are completing professional experience (placements) are not required to attend classes or scheduled synchronous sessions during the placement.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 3 hour campus-based seminar per non-placement week, 1 x 1.5 hour online seminar per non-placement week

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Time engaging in learning activities is expected to total a combined equivalent of 8-10 hours per week.

This includes engagement with materials, responses to tasks, regular forum posting and responding to others, scheduled synchronous online discussions and independent study during non-placement teaching weeks (approx. 6-9 weeks).

It is highly recommended that you attend scheduled synchronous discussions in the unit site throughout the trimester.

Content

The unit aims to lead students to a deeper understanding and appreciation of different approaches to the learning and teaching of education for sustainability, including its relation to socio-scientific issues and environmental education, to lower secondary level years 7 to 10 across a range of curriculum areas and as a whole school approach.

  • The nature and purposes of education for sustainability and its relation to socio-scientific issues and environmental education
  • Locating opportunities for learning and teaching through education for sustainability in the Australian National Curriculum
  • Approaches to learning and teaching through education for sustainability
  • Assessment for and of learning through education for sustainability
  • Learning and teaching resources for education for sustainability.
ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1

Apply an advanced and integrated understanding of contemporary educational, sustainability, socio-scientific, and environmental issues and theories to describe and critically discuss the nature and purposes of education for sustainability and its relationship to science education in schools

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Reflect and critically discuss the Australian National Curriculum cross-curriculum priority of Sustainability and identify and generate learning and teaching opportunities for lower secondary years 7-10 across the curriculum areas and as a whole school approach

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

ULO3

Evaluate, synthesise, and reflect on creative and practical pedagogical strategies and approaches grounded in contemporary research to learning and teaching education for sustainability for lower secondary years 7-10

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO6: Self-management

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO4

Independently and collaboratively evaluate existing and create new assessment tasks for learning and teaching education for sustainability for lower secondary years 7-10

GLO2: Communication

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO4: Critical thinking

GLO6: Self-management

GLO7: Teamwork

ULO5

Identify, analyse, implement, evaluate and engage in professional reading, critical reflection and discussion about a range of resources for education for sustainability for lower secondary years 7-10

GLO2: Communication

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO6: Self-management

GLO7: Teamwork

Assessment

Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 (Group) - Design a resource share it via presentation to support an aspect of student learning from the assessment 1 program, include a description with task details of how to assess for and of learning 2000 words
or equivalent per person

40% Week 5
Assessment 2 - Design a lower secondary years 7 to 10 program in education of sustainability, socio-scientific issues, and/or environmental education across a range of curriculum areas and/or as a whole school approach 3000 words
or equivalent
60% Week 11

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link ESS741
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list.

Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.

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