EfS : Content andor Delivery SCHOOL OF SURVEYING

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EfS Content and/or Delivery?SCHOOL OF
SURVEYING
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FACULTY OF ART, DESIGN ARCHITECTURE Amanda
Lewis (Director) Elise Toogood (Special Projects)

• CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES
• ACHIEVED THROUGH
• INTEGRATED PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION

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AIMS TEACHING LEARNING

• To encourage staff
• .. to develop and implement
• excellent, innovative
• teaching and learning initiatives ..
• .. through a flexible system of rewards.

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AIMS TEACHING LEARNING

• To create links with industry and practice that
  provide CPD and other professional training ..
• .. and feed back into
• university curricula through
• project work, case studies,
• guest lectures ..
• ..and joint research activities.

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AIMS TEACHING LEARNING

• To deliver graduates from
• professionally accredited courses ..
• .. who understand sustainability from a
• range of different professional perspectives
• .. and have acquired relevant skills through
• integrated (inter-professional) live projects

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.. as opposed to graduates like this ..
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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• We hail from the Built Environment
• NOT primarily Development nor Environmental
• This matters in terms of professional terminology

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• THEREFORE
• Education for Sustainability EfS
• NOT
• Education for Sustainable Development - ESD

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OBJECTIVES TEACHING LEARNING

• Embed sustainability into the content of the
  curriculum of professional courses within KU.
• Develop T L initiatives and resources which
  support the delivery of sustainability within the
  curriculum.

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?
What are we doing at present?

• CURRICULUM content
• SPACE delivery
• PROJECTS content and delivery ?

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?
What are we doing at present?

• CURRICULUM content
• Re/validate modules
• Preparing guidance for validation panels
• Inform through PG Cert in TL in HE
• Infiltrate University validation policy

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• CURRICULUM content
• RE/VALIDATE MODULES A SHORT ACTIVITY
• Existing module needs to be converted to
  explicitly reflect sustainability 5/10 minutes

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• CURRICULUM content
• RE/VALIDATE MODULES A SHORT ACTIVITY
• Proposed module following revalidation
• No new aims, only amending 2 out of 6
• No new learning outcomes, amending 4 out of 9
• Rephrasing of curriculum content
• Two additions to the bibliography ..

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• CURRICULUM content
• RE/VALIDATE MODULES A SHORT ACTIVITY
• Process
• Curriculum clusters
• 1-2-1 with teaching staff
• Admin support

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• CURRICULUM content
• RE/VALIDATE MODULES A SHORT ACTIVITY
• Any Questions ?

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?
What are we doing at present?

• SPACE delivery
• Changing functional emphasis
• Changing appearance / atmosphere
• Changing staff approach
• Influencing subsequent design and facilities

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?
What are we doing at present?

• SPACE delivery
• Called the Debating Chamber for 2 reasons
• Pedagogic - interactive
• Sustainability as process and example

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the Debating Chamber
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The Debating Chamber looking towards the Reading
Room
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SOCIAL LEARNING SPACESTHE READING ROOM IN USE
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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?
What are we doing at present?

• PROJECTS content and delivery?
• More and greater variety
• Informing, providing guidance and resources
• Live and sponsored
• Inter-professional and integrated - Dublin

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• SPACE PROJECTS content and delivery?
• Barriers encountered what do you think?

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• SPACE PROJECTS content and delivery?
• Barriers encountered what do you think?
• Large class size
• Inappropriate rooming
• Timetabling inflexibility
• Reluctance to adopt change
• E.g. fear of innovation risk-averse time
  constrained
• Feed me student attitude

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• DELIVERY
• RESOLVE AN ISSUE - A SHORT ACTIVITY

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EfS CONTENT AND / OR DELIVERY?

• DELIVERY
• RESOLVE AN ISSUE FEEDBACK
• and if we get it right we could have ..

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.. the ideal graduates ! ..