The University of Greenwich holds monthly open lecture in teaching and learning.

The next Open lecture will be on Tuesday 24^th March 2015, 5 – 6pm, University of Greenwich, Queen Anne Court 080, Greenwich campus

 

All welcome. Registration not necessary

 

Speaker: Dr Paul Warwick, Plymouth University

 

Title: Sustainability Education in HE - towards a pedagogy of hope, challenge and controversy?

 

Abstract

This session will consider the potential for Sustainability Education within Higher Education. It will draw from recent international and national policy and research in support of an integrated and systemic reform approach towards Education for Sustainable Development. The session will present a range of resources that have been specifically developed to help staff and students to engage critically and creatively with Sustainability Education and will also include opportunity for discussion and interaction

 

Biography

 

Dr Paul Warwick helps to lead Sustainability Education at Plymouth University. He works within the Centre for Sustainable Futures and is responsible for supporting curriculum development, student engagement and participatory research relating to sustainability education.
Paul has worked for ten years within Higher Education taking a leading role in developing a variety of educational innovation and reform initiatives primarily concerned with Citizenship Education and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
 In 2009 he was awarded a teaching fellowship for expertise and innovation in teaching related to the sustainability agenda at the University of Leicester.He founded a masters level course specifically geared towards teacher education in ESD and as director of a MA International Education programme pioneered a pathway specifically tailored towards innovation and reform in education.

 

See http://www2.gre.ac.uk/about/faculty/eddev/study/open-lecture-series for our video archive of other lectures in this series.  

 

Best wishes

Alice