Autumn 2022: Join the sustainability conversation
This autumn, Learning for Sustainability Scotland is delighted to be working with The University of Edinburgh, General Teaching Council for Scotland, British Council, SCOREscotland and the Climate Sisters (supported by the Women’s Environmental Network) to create and deliver a suite of sustainability-related learning and discussion opportunities.
This series of linked opportunities offers the chance to engage in local and global sustainability conversations which are supported, facilitated, free and underpinned by our core values of community, collaboration, local and global connections, commitment to action and issues of intersectionality and climate justice. Please read on to find out more…
1. September 2022
‘Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards: Drop-In #4’
29 September, 16:00 – 17:00
Online
In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers and college lecturers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.
Join our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.
‘Climate Sisters: bringing women’s voices to the climate table’
22-29 September
Exhibition: showing at Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR
The Climate Sisters are a group of thirteen women which formed in 2020 during a climate leadership course where, through discussion and collaboration, they each developed creative responses to aspects of climate justice and other sustainability issues they cared about.
Through the Women’s Environmental Network (WEN), the project gained support from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, Care International and Action Aid UK. Additionally, the University of Glasgow provided mentors to help the women to develop and create their ideas, and the University of Edinburgh documented the project in conversation with young people from SCOREscotland through two films; bringing their collective stories into the ‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’ series of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). These collaborations enabled the women to develop their varied ideas, make them a reality and share them widely.
This exhibition offers an opportunity to interact with each of the creative pieces produced by the Climate Sisters which include poetry, music, podcasts, sculptures, paintings, jewellery, filmmaking, fashion and photography.
It is open, free of charge, 10am until 16:00 daily* from 22nd – 29th September at the Greyfriars Charteris Centre, 138 The Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9RR.
*Please note that the exhibition will not be open on Saturday 24 September due to a closed event.
2. October 2022
‘Learning for a Sustainable Future’
Starts 03 October
Self-led Massive Open Online Course
This self-led course supports you to reflect, investigate, discuss and develop an informed response to the global challenges that matter to you. Taking a personalised issue-based approach, you will have the opportunity to further investigate the diverse causes, impacts, and multiple social and political factors related to a sustainability issue that you feel is important; before making an informed response towards taking action, in whatever form that may take. Recognising that we will all come to this course from various starting points and with a range of perspectives, we have created space for community discussions where we can share our own contexts, issues and experiences and learn with and from one another. The course also offers an opportunity to reflect and discuss the teaching and learning approaches we offer whilst creating space to hear the ways in which you are working, or may wish to work, with your learners, whomever they may be.
Find out more and sign up here. We look forward to welcoming you!
‘LfS and the future of learning in Scotland’s land-based and aquaculture sectors
03 October: 16:00 – 17:30
Online
Join Learning for Sustainability Scotland and the Scottish Government for an opportunity to share your views and experiences with the Scottish Government’s Commission for the Land-Based Learning Review and to contribute to shaping the future of learning in Scotland’s land-based and aquaculture sectors.
The event will cover the themes of:
∙ Education and Training
∙ Skills Gaps and Shortages
∙ Awareness and Perception of the Land-based Sector
‘Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards: Drop-In #5’
27 October, 16:00 – 17:00
Online
In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers and college lecturers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.
Join our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.
3. November 2022
‘Live at COP27’
Starts 07 November
Self-led Massive Open Online Course
This 2-week MOOC ran last year in parallel with COP26 and attracted over 4,000 learners from over 130 countries worldwide. We are very pleased to be able to offer it once again; aligning this time with COP27, which is being held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from 06 – 18 November. We are very grateful to be working in partnership with The University of Edinburgh and British Council to bring you this course.
We are working closely with The University of Edinburgh’s delegation to COP27, British Council Cairo, and partners internationally to bring a mix of pre-scheduled content coming from community groups, education and the arts as well as live content as it emerges from COP27. This MOOC will remain available as a legacy resource on Future Learn until November 2023.
Click here to read more and sign up.
Learning for Sustainability & the National Discussion on Education
7th November 2022 , 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The need to support learners of all ages to contribute building a socially-just, sustainable and equitable society has never been greater.
To step up action on Learning for Sustainability, a refresh of Scotland’s Learning for Sustainability Action Plan is currently underway. This is also a time of change for Scotland’s education system. The Scottish Government and COSLA have launched the ‘most inclusive ever National Discussion on education in Scotland with learners playing a key part in decision-making’.
What are the most important priorities for a future education system? What kind of education, skills, knowledge and support will young people require to positively contribute to our changing world?
This meeting aims to provide an opportunity to:
- Engage with the current national education and Learning for Sustainability policy agendas
- Consider how Learning for Sustainability contributes to the future vision for Scotland’s education system
- Find out how to involve others in contributing to the National Discussion on education.
Join us and Professor Alma Harris, co-facilitator of the National Discussion, for this opportunity to hear more about, discuss and feed into one of the most important discussions on the direction of Scottish education in recent years.
We look forward to welcoming you to the discussion. It’s time to #TalkScottishEducation.
Click here to book your place.
‘Learning for Sustainability and the Professional Standards: Drop-In #6’
24 November, 16:00 – 17:00
Online
In Scotland, the Professional Standards for teachers and college lecturers are underpinned by Learning for Sustainability as a key cross-cutting theme; interdependent with the other key cross-cutting themes of Values and Leadership.
Join our monthly drop-in sessions to connect with other practitioners and contributors to share, celebrate and discuss more about Learning for Sustainability and what it means for you, your practice, your setting and your wider learning community.
We look forward to having you join us at one or more of these opportunities.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you require any additional information and follow us on Twitter @LfSScotland to keep up-to-date with the latest news.