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EDST445 Science Curriculum and Teaching 3
10 cp
Pre or Co-requisite EDST443 Science Curriculum and Teaching 1
The need to enable the transition to a sustainable future is foregrounded in the documents that state: “to succeed in [the] world, students will need to create a future which is sustainable – developing an understanding of the interaction between social, economic and environmental systems and how to manage them”. Moreover, science itself has undergone immense change as a consequence of globalisation. The growth of the biotechnologies, and the imminent development of nanotechnology, means science as commodity production has been harnessed to the interests of the global economy. Together, these drivers call for a broader interpretation of science. “Sustainability science” is one response that engages diverse knowledge systems including modern western science (MWS), ecoliteracy, ethnoscience, local knowledge, futures thinking, and global education to produce human-environment systems aimed at developing a sustainable future. This unit will assist students to develop the necessary knowledge, skills and values to teach a “sustainability science” approach within science education to both junior and senior secondary classes.
