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> Colleagues
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> Education & Sustainable Development Seminars: 2001/2002
>
> Below and attached you will find details of this year's Education &
> Sustainable
> Development seminars to be held at the University of Bath.
>
> The first seminar is on 13 December:
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> Title: Environmental Education, Identity and Living Earth
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> Speaker: Dr Paul Vare, Director of Education and Communication, Living
> Earth Foundation
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> Summary: The Living Earth Foundation is a UK-based NGO which works
> mainly overseas helping individuals and communities work on their
> sustainability agendas. The seminar will explore Living Earth's work
> and the challenges it faces.
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>
> Venue: 1WN 3.17 in the Department of Education
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> Time: 1015 to 1215
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> We look forward to seeing you on the 13th.
>
> William Scott
> Director: Centre for Research in Education and the Environment
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> Further Details:
> Purpose
> This seminar series in 2001/02 will explore issues concerned with
> identity development in relation to environments (social, cultural,
> economic and physical), drawing on international, national and local
> research & development activities. The seminars will provide
> opportunities for practitioners and researchers to interact with the aim
> of stimulating both greater understanding of educations roles and
> responsibilities in relation to sustainable development, and
> collaborative activities.
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> Audience
> The seminars are free and open to everyone in the region who is
> interested in exploring the emerging role of education within
> sustainable development. We anticipate that participants will come
> from, LEAs, Agenda 21, government, NGOs, business, universities
> (researchers and research students) and schools. Please feel free to
> pass details on to all who might be interested. For more details about
> the seminars or the research centre please contact us at
> [log in to unmask] or go to: <http://www.bath.ac.uk/education/cree/>
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> Times & Format
> The seminar will run from 1015 to 1215 and will comprise expert input
> (around 40 minutes) with invited discussants helping to focus subsequent
> audience debate.
>
> Dates
> December 13 January 24 March 21 June 20
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> Venue
> Seminars will take place in 1WN 3.17 in the Department of Education.
> This is best reached via the main University entrance if travelling by
> bus or car. Refreshments are available beforehand in the Claverton
> Rooms across the Parade from the Education Department (1W/1WN). Limited
> parking on a pay & display basis is available in Car parks adjacent to
> the main bus stop. A city/campus map is available at:
> <http://www.bath.ac.uk/University/maps/citymap.html>
>
> Speakers & Themes
> December 13 2001 Dr Paul Vare Living Earth Foundation
>
> Environmental Education, Identity and Living Earth
> The Living Earth Foundation is a UK-based NGO which works mainly
> overseas helping individuals and communities work on their
> sustainability agendas; the seminar will explore Living Earths work and
> the challenges it faces.
>
>
> January 24 2002 Paul Shabajee University of Bristol
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> ARKive, Endangered Species and Learning
> ARKive is a digital library of images of the worlds endangered species
> based at Wildwalk in Bristol. The seminar will explore the roles that
> ARKive can play in its work with schools, teachers and pupils, and
> examine the underlying theoretical, design and technological issues that
> impact on building the ARKive system.
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>
> March 21 2002 Dr Martin Ashley University of the West of
> England
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> Science, Belief and the Environment
> How do people position themselves with regard to the interplay between
> public understanding of science and beliefs about environment based upon
> aesthetics, morality, spirituality or myth?
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> June 20 2002 Speaker to be arranged
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