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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.

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:GA1GA2GA3GA4GA5GA6GA7
1critically reflect upon their own environmental and sustainability experiences and philosophiesIntellectual rigourEthical practiceLifelong learning
2develop an understanding of the principles of sustainabilityIntellectual rigourEthical practiceLifelong learning
3engage in critical debate and discussion concerning issues of sustainability and educationIntellectual rigourEthical practiceLifelong learning
4plan, implement and evaluate environmental education learning experiences (drawing upon experiential and place-based pedagogies).Intellectual rigourEthical practiceLifelong learning

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. critically reflect upon their own environmental and sustainability experiences and philosophies
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA5: Lifelong learning
  2. develop an understanding of the principles of sustainability
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA5: Lifelong learning
  3. engage in critical debate and discussion concerning issues of sustainability and education
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA5: Lifelong learning
  4. plan, implement and evaluate environmental education learning experiences (drawing upon experiential and place-based pedagogies).
    • GA1: Intellectual rigour
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA5: Lifelong learning

Prescribed texts

  • Refer to Blackboard (MyReadings) for Week-by-Week Reading Guide and Readings: N/A, 2019, Online Environmental Education eReadings, 2nd edn, SCU.
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method
Workshop online 2 hours (10 weeks)
Assessment
Eco-biography40%
Project60%
Notice

Intensive offerings may or may not be scheduled in every session. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Southern Cross University employs different teaching methods within units to provide students with the flexibility to choose the mode of learning that best suits them. SCU academics strive to use the latest approaches and, as a result, the learning modes and materials may change. The most current information regarding a unit will be provided to enrolled students at the beginning of the study session.

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
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International

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