Details

Early Bird Fee: 125 USD (for registration fully completed prior April 30, 2023)
Webinar Fee: 150 USD (for registration after April 30, 2023)
Online Via Zoom

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Overview

Universities have a critical role in shaping and responding to the needs of society and to contribute to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They can be agents for powerful change towards achieving these ambitious goals, through research, curricula, teaching and learning, working practices and community service but also through empowering and energizing students and the wider community towards these goals. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) empowers students to take informed decisions and responsible actions for environmental integrity, economic viability and a just society, for present and future generations, while respecting cultural diversity.

Your graduates, how they live, learn and work throughout their lifetimes, will have a persistent impact on the environmental and social challenges the world is facing. The competencies, the skills, attributes and values – they develop through their studies can help them contribute to a more sustainable future, transforming their thinking so that they have a positive impact throughout their lives.

ESD is holistic and transformational education approach which addresses learning content and outcomes, pedagogy and the learning environment. It achieves its purpose by transforming society. Designing teaching and learning in an interactive, learner-centred way that enables exploratory, action oriented and transformative learning that contributes to learning environments that are inclusive and inspire learners to act for sustainability is what universities across the globe should be considering. Teaching staff should adopt approaches that stimulate student learning and promote core competencies such as critical and systemic thinking, collaborative decision-making, and taking responsibility for present and future generations.

However, for ESDGs to be impactful, it must follow an integrated, holistic and inclusive approach that demonstrate the engagement of different stakeholders and members of the educational community. It should become an integral part of universities’ strategy infused in its culture.

This highly interactive webinar will introduce participants to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); what is meant by Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDGs) and how can it be strategically and operationally (within the curriculum) implemented. What sort of enablers must be in place and how can universities make sustainability a strategic priority where different stakeholders are actively involved. A number of case studies and good practices will be shared throughout the session by the facilitators.

It will then focus on equipping academic administrators and faculty members with the necessary knowledge, skills and competencies to integrate SDGSs in their curricula, pedagogy, teaching and learning activities and student assessment and look at how to empower students to become future agents of change. The session will conclude by looking into global developments and initiatives related to sustainability in HE and how can universities benefit and engage with them.