Climate education

All our first-year bachelor's students will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the all-encompassing challenge that climate change presents. 

We will facilitate this with a toolkit, integrated into all of the study programmes, where students will have space to explore what this means to them as an individual, as a member of the (BUas) community and as a future professional in their field.

BUas sees the importance of introducing this at the start of the student’s higher professional education as a means of empowering them to shape a better world.

A key component of this education will focus on increasing individuals’ capacities for inner development, as preparation for being able to actively contribute to the ‘outer’ complex challenges facing humanity. The intended learning outcomes of increased well-being and empowerment are reinforced, as are the BUas+ skills for life, especially relating to ‘guts and personal leadership’. 

To support our staff in providing this education, and linked to our ambition of becoming a climate positive organisation, staff (and potentially wider stakeholders) will have the opportunity to develop themselves professionally and personally by becoming climate education facilitators by means of in-house training.

Educational material about sustainable development

A small team at BUas has made a video series entitled 'A History of Sustainable Development', which offers a detailed exploration into the evolution of the concept of sustainable development, from the late 1970s to the present day, as well as a glimpse into the future. As we confront the climate crisis, along with the many other complex and interrelated global challenges facing us, we shed light on some of the most pivotal events and policy decisions in recent decades, and their consequences for achieving sustainable development.

The series of seven short videos, and the supporting texts for using the videos in class situations, touches on topics such as the industrial revolution, planetary limits and boundaries, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the climate emergency. Our hope is that these materials will make a potentially rather dense topic accessible and meaningful, and help to empower students and educators in bringing this topic to life in the classroom. 

These (entirely open-source) videos can support, maybe even kick-start, the crucial conversations which we need to be having to help us to understand where we have been going wrong and how we need to do things differently going forwards. Visit www.climate-positive-education.org to find out more! If you would like to get in touch with the team behind this series you can contact us via

[email protected]

 

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