Sustainable Education

I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed. "How might we organize differently if we understood how Life organizes?" "problems that are impossible to solve with one paradigm may be easily solved with a different one."

A one-year, part time Action Research programme. Through practical examples, theory and creative processes, participants will have the opportunity to explore ideas in a dynamic learning environment. The part time structure enables participants to experiment with, reflect on, and document their learning in between sessions, and to integrate the work into their professional and personal practice. There is support and feedback from the certificate tutors and peers during the intervals.

Icelandic spirit 3.33min sound clip\nSigrun Davidsdottir looks at how Icelanders are coping with their recession and knitting their way out of the downturn!

"Almost since life began on earth, mycelia have performed important ecological roles: nourishing ecosystems, repairing them, and sometimes even helping create them. The fungi's exquisitely fine filaments absorb nutrients from the soil and then trade them with the roots of plants for some of the energy that the plants produce through photosynthesis. No plant community could exist without mycelia."

"Now there is no denying that the right trees, growing in the right place, are a truly wondrous thing, with myriad benefits for local people and wildlife, and for the global climate."

Lots of extra ideas on how to make good use of Diigo

"If we cut the average speed of all vehicles by half, fuel consumption would decrease by a whopping 75 percent."

"Days of world consumption: A warning label for oil and gas discoveries\nby Kurt Cobb "\n"We should leave fossil fuels before they leave us."

Excellent schools ICT

"The website provides information and articles about open source software, advice on getting started, case studies of its adoption in schools, a directory for exploring what is available, and a glossary."

as of 15 th Nov 2009 from Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Might be useful

""People have heart's ease when they're on their own country. If you force them off that country, if you take them away from their land, they feel the loss of heart's ease as a kind of vertigo, a disintegration of their whole life.""

"To curb climate change, we need to protect water. Maude Barlow. An international rescue plan for fresh water"

""a shaking of the traditional pieces of the global geo-political puzzle and their landing in a new and unfamiliar configuration." "

"Teaching with PEEP\n\nThe following resources have been put together to support teachers in managing discussion based lessons and to suggest sources of useful information for planning lessons."

COMIC

"Ofsted visited 14 schools over a three-year period to evaluate how effectively they had developed pupils' understanding of sustainability and whether education for sustainable development had any impact on improving the broader life of the school. Over three years all but one of the schools improved the overall effectiveness of their provision for sustainable development, with a wide range of positive consequences. "

"The site for everyone helping to develop the next generation of science teachers - tutors, mentors, researchers, and teachers too. "

"YouTube science lessons Science lessons can be fun and creative as well as educational. A new campaign called Your Science showcases five exciting science experiments filmed in schools around the country to establish the nation's favourite."