Read Alastair's practice guide.

Education for Sustainable Development within the core curriculum and beyond: A living lab approach

Alastair's practice guide explores the GSD Department's commitment to creating learning opportunities for students that offer real-life challenges that develop competencies, skills and preparing students for challenges beyond their studies.

"The guide showcases our philosophy of treating learners with respect, beginning with thinking about what active contribution that they can make to the creation of collective knowledge, while at the same time learning themselves; rather than being primarily concerned with what knowledge can do for them, as the more traditional individualistic approach to education goes. This chimes with wider research-led teaching on the value of collective organisation, coordination and action, necessary for transformational change in our world.

The Certificate of Sustainability Consultancy (Auditing) and the MASc Practice-Based Project are used as examples to highlight how we have used this philosophy as part of a living laboratory pedagogy."

Dr Alastair Smith