Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online | Session 2 | N/A |
Unit description
Explores sustainability and its implications for education. Students will critically examine environmental education, in addition to planning, implementing and evaluating environmental education learning experiences. The initial focus of the unit will be a personal reflective one moving on to a broader social and ecological focus.
Unit content
This unit will be delivered as an external online study unit, complemented by the facilitation of direct learning experiences which are 'optional'. All learning materials will be delivered online.
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
Learning outcomes and graduate attributes
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | critically reflect upon their own environmental and sustainability experiences and philosophies | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | ||||
| 2 | develop an understanding of the principles of sustainability | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | ||||
| 3 | engage in critical debate and discussion concerning issues of sustainability and education | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | ||||
| 4 | plan, implement and evaluate environmental education learning experiences (drawing upon experiential and place-based pedagogies). | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | ||||
Prescribed texts
Session 2
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Online
| Teaching method |
| Workshop online 2 hours (10 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Eco-biography | 40% |
| Project | 60% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Commencing 2020 Commonwealth Supported only. Student contribution band: 1
Fee paying courses
For POSTGRADUATE or UNDERGRADUATE full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.