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Welcome Learning and Teaching Conference 2014

‘The UK higher education sector is under increasing pressure to address the challenge of embedding sustainable development in the curriculum and ensuring graduates are globally aware and responsible citizens in the 21st century. Employers are demanding sustainabilityliterate graduates, students are demanding future-proof skills, and the UK Government’s vision for a new ‘green economy’ presents both challenges and opportunities for higher education institutions’ (HEA, 2013).

According to a recent HEA and NUS report* more than 80% of students surveyed believe sustainable development should be actively promoted and incorporated by UK universities and that interest in sustainable development remains strong among students throughout their university careers and with the introduction of increased tuition fees. To coincide with the University of Chichester’s engagement with the HEA Green Academy programme, the aim of this year’s Learning and Teaching conference is to highlight best practice in the enhancement and embedding of education for sustainable development (EDS) within the curricula.

Key Note Speaker Professor Carolyn Roberts The Knowledge Transfer Network, and Frank Jackson Professor, Gresham College, London Email: carolyn.roberts@earth.ox.ac.uk Carolyn Roberts is an applied environmental scientist with specific interests in sustainability and resource management. She is currently a senior scientist in the UK Technology Strategy Boardfunded ‘Knowledge Transfer Network’, and prior to that was Director of the ‘Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network’ a similar national network based at the University of Oxford. Both organisations link businesses with universities, securing technological innovation to enable more environmentally-sensitive industry.

At the University of Gloucestershire she was Head of the School of Environment, and Director of the national HEFCE-recognised Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning that emerged from it – the Centre for Active Learning. Recognised for the quality of her teaching through the award of a National Teaching Fellowship, and a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy, she has also published books and papers on themes including innovation, disability, employability, active styles of learning, and education for sustainable development.

She chaired the national advisory board for the Higher Education Academy’s Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences Subject Centre. Carolyn is currently the Chair of the national chartering organisation Society for the Environment, and was formerly Chair of the national professional body, the Institution of Environmental Sciences.

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Programme Outline Morning Schedule 9.00am

Coffee and Registration Venue: Cloisters

Venue: Mitre Lecture Theatre

9.30am

Welcome and Introduction

9.40am

‘Setting the Context’: Green Academy Programme

Dr Andy Clegg, Programme Co-ordintor for Tourism Management and Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, University of Chichester 9.50am

‘A Quality Education and Fit for Purpose’: Education for Sustainability in Context

Professor Carolyn Roberts, The Knowledge Transfer Network, and Frank Jackson Professor, Gresham College, London 10.30am Education for Sustainable Development - Industry Perspectives

Professor Jim Lynch, Chair of Governors, University of Chichester

10.55am Perspectives on Green Impact and ESD

Charlotte Taylor, Community Project Officer, NUS

11.15am Green Going - University of Chichester Perspectives

Kate Cathie, Environment Officer, University of Chichester

11.35am Refreshments: Cloisters

11.55pm Sessions 1, 2 and 3

Venues:

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Lunch

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Programme Outline Afternoon Schedule 1.55pm

Session 4

Venues: Strand 1 - Mitre Lecture Theatre Strand 2 - LO6

Venue: Mitre Lecture Theatre

2.30pm

Establishing a Baseline for ESD Engagement

Dr Hugh Dunkerley 2.40pm

‘Getting Sustainability into Your Degree Programme’: A Student Handbook Stefi Barna

3.00pm

Session 5: Workshop Cafe ‘Getting Sustainability into Your Degree Programme’

Venues: Workshop 1 - Cloisters Workshop 2 - E124

4.00pm

Q&A and Summary

4.15pm

Learning and Teaching: Going Forward

4.25pm

University of Chichester Module of the Year Award

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Presentations

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‘Setting the Context’: Green Academy Programme

Dr Andy Clegg, Programme Co-ordintor for Tourism Management and Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing University of Chichester A brief introduction to the conference with reference to the University’s engagement with the HEA Green Academy Programme, and the resultant inclusion of ESD as a priority in the University’s new Learning and Teaching Strategy.

Keynote ‘A Quality Education and Fit for Purpose’: Education for Sustainability in Context

Professor Carolyn Roberts, The Knowledge Transfer Network, and Frank Jackson Professor, Gresham College, London

The purpose of education, and particularly Higher Education, has been debated for millennia. Popular opinion counterposes ‘employability’ with high academic achievement, the discovery of new principles with their application, and the growth of self-awareness with the accumulation of knowledge. Given the uncertainty and speed of change of the world with which students must engage after they leave university, the perplexity of educators is perhaps understandable – in practice they need to embrace all of these concepts simultaneously. Superimposed onto this complexity, many universities want to be seen as distinctive in what they can offer to potential students, whilst also chasing the elusive beast of ‘student satisfaction’.

The talk will invite you to participate in a stroll around the worlds of Education for Sustainable Development, and active styles of learning, in the company of Alice.

Education for Sustainable Development - Industry Perspectives

Professor Jim Lynch OBE, Distinguished Professor of Life Sciences, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey; Chair of Governors, University of Chichester Sustainability is a characteristic of a process or state that can be maintained at a certain level indefinitely. It influences all aspects of life, and can be analysed using Participatory Social Analysis and at the process level by Life Cycle Assessment.

Industry has had a negative influence by carbon emissions generating climate change.

Bioenergy is an ameliorative option but needs to be viewed in the light of global food security and the competition for land. The transdisciplinary nature of sustainability means that it needs to be considered across all courses in arts and sciences. In application it is vital to develop public private partnerships, especially at the regional level.

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Perspectives on Green Impact and ESD

Charlotte Taylor, Community Project Officer, NUS An overview from the NUS on initiatives designed to support student and staff engagement in ESD.

Green Going - University of Chichester Perspectives

Kate Cathie, Environment Officer, University of Chichester An overview of the work currently being undertaken in the University, reflecting on the successes of the Green Impact Scheme, and projects being undertaken by students.

Establishing a Baseline for ESD Engagement

Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing, University of Chichester A report on research work being undertaken in the University to establish a baseline for ESD and how many modules currently incorporate some element of ESD.

‘Getting Sustainability into Your Degree Programme’: A Student Handbook

Stefi Barna, Lecturer in Global Public Health, University of East Anglia The University of East Anglia’s Future Skills Initiative aims to deepen employability skills and ensure that graduates leave with the skills to become effective future leaders and to help bring about a more just and sustainable world. The Handbook aims to capture the unique perspectives and approaches inherent in each academic discipline, and to serve as a forum for discussion and debate, via three questions: •

What are the links between your discipline and a more sustainable world?

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What knowledge and skills do your graduates need in order to bring that world about, as professionals, citizens and leaders?

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How should those knowledge and skills be acquired?

Conceptual frameworks will be shared from Business and Management, English, Media Studies, History, Maths, Social Work and the health professions.

This presentation will also provide the focus for the afternoon’s workshop cafe where colleagues will be encouraged to think how they could embed ESD within their own modules.

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Session Programme Learning and Teaching Conference 2014

Session 1: Time:

12.00pm to 12.20pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

Embedding Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development into the Portsmouth Geography Curriculum Dr Julia Brown, University of Portsmouth

Strand 2 (LO6):

Recycled, Re-seen - How and Why Found, Recycled and Appropriated Materials are Used in Fine Art Victoria Brown, University of Chichester

Session 2: Time:

12.25pm to 12.45pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

PAL Week: Learning Sustainable Development in Design and Engineering Dr Nigel Garland and Dr Zulfiqar Khan, University of Bournemouth

Strand 2 (LO6):

Students as Producers of Sustainability Hugh Dunkerley, University of Chichester

Session 3: Time:

12.50pm to 1.15pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

Good Management Theories for Good Management Practice: Reflections from Students on Their Business School Curricula Dr Denise Baden, University of Southampton

Strand 2 (LO6):

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Music and Sustainability

Dr Rod Paton, University of Chichester

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Session 4: Time:

2.00pm to 2.20pm

Strand 1 (MLT):

Embedding Education for Sustainable Development - A Case Study of Tourism and Events Management Dr Andy Clegg, University of Chichester

Strand 2 (LO6):

Thinking for Global Citizenship

Session 5:

Workshop Cafe

Time:

3.00pm to 4.00pm

‘Getting Sustainability into Your Degree Programme’

Faciliator:

Stefi Barna, Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Dr Andy Clegg, Dr Duncan Reavey and Kate Cathie

Venue:

Cloisters and E124

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Session 1 Time:

12.00pm to 12.20pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Embedding Critical Perspectives on Sustainable Development into the Portsmouth Geography Curriculum

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Contributor(s):

Dr Julia Brown, Senior Lecturer in Geography

Institution:

Department of Geography, University of Portsmouth

Contact: Julia.brown@port.ac.uk

Sustainable Development is the buzz-word of our generation: “like motherhood and apple pie, nobody could be against it” (Terborgh,1999), but there is a danger it “has come to mean everything, and thereby risks ending up meaning nothing” (O’Riordan,1993). While the origins of sustainable development are worthy, the reality of balancing its three pillars (economic, social and environmental) is challenging, and the concept is at risk of co-option by big business, its radical elements lost in institutional ‘green’ box-ticking exercises. Thus embedding a critical perspective on Sustainable Development is crucial. Exploring the very real challenge of translating Sustainable Development policy into meaningful change and equity is fundamental to my units. In Sustainable Environmental Management (Level 5) students are enthused and encouraged to delve and to evaluate, to recognise that there are a spectrum of views from weak to strong sustainability, that those at opposite ends of the spectrum have very different ideas about the environment and how best to manage it. In my Level 6 unit, Environment and Development, students travel to Uganda and conduct research into the reality of managing natural resources sustainably. Learning is taken out of the lecture theatre and into the reality of life with all its challenges and paradoxes, producing graduates capable of independent thinking with a global perspective.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Recycled, Re-seen - How and Why Found, Recycled and Appropriated Materials are Used in Fine Art

Contributor(s):

Victoria Brown, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art

Institution:

Department of Fine Art, University of Chichester

Contact: v.brown@chi.ac.uk

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The precedent of appropriating materials and recycling work has been set by 20th century artists and is continued by Fine Art students. I will be using photographs of graduate work to discuss the ways in which found recycled and appropriated materials and objects develop the link between studio practice and contextual studies/art history.

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Session 2 Time:

12.25pm to 12.45pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

PAL Week: Learning Sustainable Development in Design and Engineering

Contributor(s):

Dr Nigel Garland and Dr Zulfiqar A. Khan

Institution:

Sustainable Design Research Centre, Bournemouth University

Contact: ngarland@bournemouth.ac.uk / zkhan@bournemouth.ac.uk

Institutional guidance highlights the wider qualitative aspects of sustainability, however these are largely ignored within engineering education in favour of quantitative methods. To encourage understanding of these aspects a course was developed as part of induction for BSc Design Engineering and MEng Engineering students. The one week course has been delivered to mixed groups of first and second year students since introduction in AY2010-11 and has evolved from examining “social usefulness” to include “material utilisation” and “future vision”. The one week assessed programme employs PBL and PAL methodologies to promote student engagement with the concepts of sustainable development. Each group is issued with a variation of the brief but with common underlying themes. The key to success has been the avoidance of didactic elements; students are expected to present their findings at daily presentations before a short micro-seminar and adaptation re-shapes their objectives. Students are not told who will be presenting for their group and no notes are allowed, ensuring all members know and understand the work done. Outputs have shaped how sustainable development is understood within the context of design engineering from a practical as well as educational perspective and resulted in a number of published works.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Students as Producers of Sustainability

Contributor(s):

Dr Hugh Dunkerley, Senior Lecturer in English and Creative Writing

Institution:

Department of English and Creative Writing, University of Chichester

Contact: h.dunkerley@chi.ac.uk

The risk with any teaching is that students become passive receivers of knowledge. How can we avoid the transmission model of education while engaging students with issues of sustainability? The last thing we should be doing is preaching at them. In this session I will discuss how I am intending to use the Student as Producer model to get students to interrogate questions of environmental sustainability for themselves.

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Session 3 Time:

12.50pm to 1.15pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

Good Management Theories for Good Management Practice: Reflections from Students on Their Business School Curricula

Contributor(s):

Denise Baben, Senior Lecturer in Management

Institution:

School of Management, University of Southampton

Contact: dab@soton.ac.uk

We asked our final year undergraduates to reflect on the extent to which business school curricula promoted or inhibited socially responsible business practices.The consensus was that currently most models and courses ignored issues relating to sustainability, ethics and responsibility, and judged business success solely in terms of profit maximisation. Most students believed this was wrong and suggested ways in which the curricula could be changed. In this session I plan to briefly highlight the issues, the students’ views and the way in which we are aiming to more effectively embed sustainability into our business school curriculum. In particular I highlight the importance of the metrics by which we judge success. For example, the metrics and outcomes used to signify ‘success’ throughout the business curriculum are typically related solely to financial performance, so success in an entrepreneurship module may be measured by growth, in a strategy module by profit, in an HR module by performance, in finance by return on investment and so on. Alternative more socially oriented metrics such as jobs created, employee satisfaction, carbon footprint, product quality etc. are rarely considered as desirable outcomes in their own right. I end with discussion about how this can be addressed.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Music and Sustainability

Contributor(s):

Dr Rod Paton, Senior Lecturer in Music

Institution:

Department of Music, University of Chichester

Contact: r.paton@chi.ac.uk

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This presentation will present some ideas towards a model of musical pedagogy which provides musicians with the skills needed within rapidly changing cultural musical paradigms. In this model, the musician’s work is contextualised within a community based model as distinct from the consumer based model which has been culturally dominant for so long. As populations age and as we develop a greater understanding of the benefits of music in health and social care, so the training of musicians will need to re-focus, away from executive and technological skill and towards creative self-sufficiency. Reference will be made to current projects in care homes in Dublin, singing for health in alliance with a local GP practice and in an acute mental health facility all of which inform and drive modules in community music and the postgraduate ‘Lifemusic’ training programme.

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Session 4 Time:

2.00pm to 2.20pm

Venue:

Mitre Lecture Theatre

Title:

Embedding Education for Sustainable Development - A Case Study of Tourism and Events Management Contributor(s):

Dr Andy Clegg, Programme Co-ordinator Tourism Management

Institution:

School of Enterprise, Management and Leadership, University of Chichester

Contact: a.clegg@chi.ac.uk

Sustainability is now regarded as an important skill for those graduates entering tourism and event related occupations. The aim of this presentation is to demonstrate how ESD has been embedded within the Tourism and Event Management programmes at the University of Chichester. Integrating industry recognised frameworks for sustainable development, staff have engaged with public and private sector organisations to facilitate an applied approach to the delivery of ESD, and in doing so has added real currency, credibility and legitimacy to the learning experience. Careful module design for the delivery of ESD facilitates clear progression between theory and application, and involving destination management and event professionals in the learning, teaching and assessment process has facilitated a better understanding of how higher education is equipping Tourism and Event Management graduates with up-to-date knowledge of the principles and practices of sustainable development.

Venue:

LO6

Title:

Thinking for Global Citizenship

Contributor(s):

Mary Young

Institution:

University of Chichester

Contact: m.young@chi.ac.uk

The session would provide a brief overview of a project led by Mary, which was undertaken in West Sussex with primary teachers and the LEA Citizenship/PHSE Team in 2010.The resulting materials have been used widely in primary schools West Sussex and beyond and also with student teachers at the University.

Using a set of Learning Objectives for KS 1 and 2 related to Citizenship/PHSE/Global Citizenship, the group looked at how pupils and teachers could effectively engage through topic work with the concepts of Global Citizenship/Sustainability in a critical way by thinking of key philosophical (as far as possible)questions to discuss in the classroom.

This idea has been used in many primary schools in order to show how issues such as social justice, environment and interdependence can be linked to any primary school topic. For instance, in the topic of ‘Houses and homes’, environmental questions could be: ‘Do you think some people throw too much away? Could I throw less away? How can I make my home environmentally friendly? What benefits and what problems can new houses bring to a local area? Where would it be sensible and not sensible to build a house?

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Useful Resources ATFIELD, R. AND KEMP. P. (2013) Enhancing Education for Sustainable

Enhancing education for sustainable development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing,Tourism Edited by Richard Atfield and Patsy Kemp

Development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism,

March 2013

HEA, York.

CLEGG, A. AND GUTIC, J. (2013) Integrating the ‘VERB’ model into an undergraduate tourism management degree programme, in ATFIELD, R. AND KEMP. P. (2013), Enhancing Education for Sustainable Development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism, HEA, York.

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DRAYSON, R., BONE, E. , AGOMBAR, J. AND KEMP, S. (2013) Student Attitudes

Enhancing education for sustainable development in Business and Management, Hospitality, Leisure, Marketing, Tourism

Towards and Skills for Sustainable Development, HEA, York.

Chapter 11 Integrating the ‘VERB’ model into an undergraduate tourism management degree programme Andrew Clegg and Jorge Gutic, University of Chichester

UK NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR UNESCO (2010) Education for Sustainable

Edited by Richard Atfield and Patsy Kemp

Development in the UK in 2010, UNESCO. UN ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE (2012) Learning for the Future Competencies in Education for Sustainable Development, UN, Switzerland.

HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMY - Education for Sustainable Development resources available online at http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/education-forsustainable-development

Student attitudes towards and skills for sustainable development Rachel Drayson, Elizabeth Bone, Jamie Agombar and Simon Kemp September 2013

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A date for your diary: Learning and Teaching Conference June 9th 2015: Reconceptualising the Student Experience - Students as Partners Conference Organiser: Dr Andy Clegg Principal Lecturer for Learning and Teaching, University of Chichester Email: a.clegg@chi.ac.uk

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