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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 380 319 SO 024 144 AUTHOR Fien, John, Ed. TITLE Teaching for a Sustainable World. Environmental and Development Education Project for Teacher Education. INSTITUTION Australian Association for Environmental Education, Inc., Brisbane. SPONS AGENCY Australian International Development Assistance Bureau.; Griffith Univ. Nathan, Brisbane (Australia). REPORT NO ISBN-0-9589087-2-9 PUB DATE 93 NOTE 519p.; Photographs in handout material may not copy adequately. AVAILABLE FROMAustralian Association for Environmental Education, Inc., Faculty of the Environmental Sciences, Griffith University, Nathan, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 4111 ($100 Australian, plus postage). PUB TYPE Guides Classroom Use Teaching Guides (For Teacher) (052) EDRS PRICE MF02/PC21 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Conservation (Environment); *Ecology; *Economic Development; Elementary Secondary Education; "Environmental Education; Foreign Countries; *Futures (of Society); Higher Education; Preservice Teacher Education; Sustainable Development; *Teacher Workshops; Waste Disposal IDENTIFIERS Australia ABSTRACT This document is a curriculum for preservice teachers that attempts to illustrate how environmental education and development education are related and to provide practical assistance for teacher educators who would like to include these important fields in their programs. The project provides a focus for discussion of environmental and development education issues in teacher education in Australia. The particular audience for this project is preservice teacher education. However, the workshop modules are adapted easily for the continuing or inservice professional development of teachers. The workshops provided in this program may be used in three major ways: (1) the materials may be used as the basis for a linked program of professional and curriculum development;(2) the workshop materials may be infused, with or without local adaptations, into a range of courses, subjects, or units in a teacher education course; and (3) the workshops may be used as a set for a core or elective course in development and environmental education. Three workshops were written to be introductory. These workshops provide an introduction to environmental education, an introduction to development education, and a way of seeing the linkages and similarities between environmental and development education. These three workshops may be considered as a hub while the remaining 15 workshops are spokes that address particular themes and specialties in environmental and development education.. These other themea discuss futures, science, educational resources, sustainability, population, and waste management among others. (DK) O 00 Cl 4.4 X J UST IN BLE ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION PROJECT FOR TEACHER EDUCATION U S. DEPARTMENT Of EOUCATION Med of Educanonal Ratacn and Intorowmtni EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) Ms (locufit Ma bean reproduced as worse, Irom ON PMO Of 0O241fif to 00f1 orKarsafing d. O Moto( change* nave boon made to nttprove naogoducaon quality Points of vans,041IK/n ataldInts docu- ment do not womanly moment official OEM Madan a policy "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY t .\) TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) BEST COPY AVAILABLE C. 2 NTRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTAL I , JOHN FIEN GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY EES AVAILA a _AL . 5 TEACHING fora SUSTAINABLE WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION PROJECT FOR TEACHER EDUCATION EDITOR: JOHN FIEN AIDA8 AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE BUREAU AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION INC. GRIFFTTH UNIVERSITY 4 THE ENVIRONMENTAL AND DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION PROJECT FOR TEACHER EDUCATION A project of the Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. supported by the Development Education Project Scheme of the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau and the Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Griffith University. Editor: John Fien Production Editor: Elizabeth Baker Production Assistant: Jan Bindon Designer: Mami Taylor Desk Top Publishing: Lesley Cassidy Published by Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc., Brisbane, 1993 © The collection - Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc., 1993 © Individual workshops - Individual authors, 1993 © Design - Mami Taylor This copyright declaration does not include rights to works included in the collection for which permission to publish was obtained as indicated in the acknowledgment listing. The Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. grants permission to duplicate the activities and associated instructional materials for non-for-profit educational purposes. Materials in the collection for which copyright is not held by Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. should only be copied when appropriate permission/licences have been obtained. All other rights reserved. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication data Teaching for a Sustainable World: The Environmental and Development Education Project for Teacher Education ISBN 0 9589087 2 9 1. Environmental education 2. Development education 3. Teacher education I. Fien, John F, 1951 II. Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. 33/7'07 The viewpoints expressed here are those of the individual authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Editor, the project staff, the Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc., Griffith University, or the Australian International Development Assistance Bureau. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT: DR JOHN FIEN FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY NATHAN, BRISBANE AUSTRALIA 4111. 5 FAX. 61 - 7- 875 7459 CONT E ACKNOWLEDGMENTS THE PROJECT TEAM INTRODUCTION THE PROJECT RATIONALE TEACHING FC A SUSTAINABLE WORLD: A NEW AGENDA FOR TEACHER EDUCATION John Fien BACKGROUND READINGS 1. ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT KEY CONCEPTS FOR A NEW APPROACH TO EDUCATION Ignacy Sachs 2. A PROLIFERATION OF 'EDUCATIONS' Sue Greig, Graham Pike and David Selby 3. ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION WITHIN PRE-SERVICE TEACHER EDUCATION: THE PRIORITY OF PRIORITIES Daniella Tilbury CONTACT ADDRESSES 1.DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION CENTRES 2. DEVELOPMENT CONTACTS 3. ENVIRONMENT CONTACTS WORKSHOP MODULES 1.INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION John Fien 2.INTRODUCTION TO DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION Margaret Calder Sz. Roger Smith 3.EXPLORING THE LINKS ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Marguerite Young 4.INTRODUCING ALTERNATIVE FUTURES David Hicks 5. APPRECIATING SUSTAINABLE FUTURES David Hicks 6. NEW SCIENCE - A NEW WORLDVIEW Kathleen Gordon 7. ANALYSING EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Zita Unger III 8.TEACHING FOR ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Hilary Macleod 9.CONSUMING FOR SUSTAINABILITY Brian Hoepper 10. HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT Helen Spork 1 1. COMMUNITY-BASED ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Edward Errington St Ian Robottom 12. COMMUNITY ACTION FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT Michael Singh 13. SOFT TOYS KNOW ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT TOO! Tony Hepworth 14 WOMEN, ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Jane Williamson-Fien 15. THE POPULATIONFOOD DEBATE John Fien 16. TRAVELLER OR TOURIST: TOURISM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD Rob Gilbert 17. WASTE MANAGEMENT AND FUTURE PROBLEM SOLVING Tony Hepworth 18. PERSONAL POWER AND PLANETARY SURVIVAL Don Gobbett IV ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The AIDAB-AAEE Environmental and Development Education Project for Teacher Education was made possible only by the co-operation of many people and organisations. First of all, the Australian Association for Environmental Education Inc. would like express its appreciation to the Development Education Project Scheme of the Austral- ian International Development Assistance Bureau (AIDAB) for its strong financial support and for the encouragement and guidance provided by Ms Cilla Ballard, a Development Education Officer in AIDAB. Similar expressions of appreciation are due to the Faculty of Environmental Sciences of Griffith University which housed the project and provided all manner of support. The workshops were written by a team of nearly 20 people who work in twelve differ- ent universities, government departments and community environmental and development organisations. All gave of their time and talents willingly and for the reimbursement of their costs only. The project would have been impossible without them. Their employing organisations are to be congratulated for providing the environ- ment which allows this kind of professionalism to flourish. The project was managed by a small core comprising John Fien, Elizabeth Baker and Jan Bindon. Lin Fairlie, AAEE Treasurer for 1990-92, managed the project's budget. Mami Taylor and Lesley Cassidy were a supurb design and Desk Top Publishing team. We owe them much, not only for the high quality publication they have produced but also for the patience and understanding with which they have worked with us. Guidance in the development of the project was provided by a seminar in March 1992 attended by John Fien, Rob Gilbert, Kathleen Gordon, Brian Hoepper, Melva Hobson, Hilary Macleod, Jan Oliver, Jim Richmond, Ian Robottom, Michael Singh, Helen Spork and Rick Swindell. David Hicks of the WWF(UK)-sponsored Global Futures Project at the Bath College of Higher Education served as a consultant to this project - and wrote two of the workshops. David Hicks also co-edited the first drafts of the workshops. Most of the workshops are supported by resources and readings for which many organi- sations have graciously provided permission
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