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Environmental & Sustainable Development Education Working Group
Dr Maggie Smith
16 Embrooke Vale
WOKINGHAM
telephone (home): 0118 978 7986
E-mail: Maggie Smith
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ESDEWG exists to further the aims of the GA with particular regard to the teaching of environmental and sustainable development education through geography, and the contribution that geography can make to ideas for creating and adopting more sustainable lifestyles.
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We hold regular meetings at which members (teachers, lecturers, researchers, students or consultants) exchange ideas and information about developments in the themes that are relevant to geography teachers. This information is passed on to the geography community through the Annual Conference, via correspondence and articles in GA and through other journals.
We represent the interests of the GA by responding to initiatives, policies and programmes on environmental education and sustainable development education. These include: - UNED-UK: Education Task Force
- Council for Environmental Education
- QCA: recommendatations for the new national curriculum
The group has contributed to a number of GA publications, which can be viewed in the GeographyShop, we also provided an article based on our Annual Conference sessions for the July 2003 issue of Teaching Geography.
Other ESDE publications are listed in the Resources area.
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A major part of the Group's work is to arrange seminars, workshops, field trips and lectures at the GA’s Annual Conference. These are designed to add to the debate on the role of environmental and sustainable development education within geography and the curriculum and to demonstrate how these themes can be integrated into geography teaching. We intend to continue this work at the 2007 Annual Conference, and to disseminate examples of good practice in ESDE through publications and journal articles.
We will continue to work with partners in higher education institutions, local education authorities and environmental centres to ensure the delivery of ESDE issues.
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Links to a variety of organisations providing information, materials and discussion on environmental and sustainable development education are listed in the Links area.
Our response to the second first annual report of the government's Sustainable Development Education Panel has been submitted.
We have provided material for QCA's ESD website, recently this has included on waste, food and tourism
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