Image above: Being careful to not be tokenistic with sustainability in the curriculum.
Links to look at related to this blog
Spatialworlds blog
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA websiteACARA Australian Curriculum portal
Email contactmanning@chariot.net.au
Spatialworlds blog
Spatialworlds website
Australian Geography Teachers' Association website
'Towards a National Geography Curriculum' project website
Geography Teachers' Association of South Australia website
ACARA websiteACARA Australian Curriculum portal
Email contactmanning@chariot.net.au
Sustainability in the Australian Curriculum: Geography
Geography sees sustainability broader than
the environment as an isolated ‘thing’. It is the interdependency of the quadruple bottom line(QBL)
that we see as our approach.
The quadruple bottom
line takes into consideration the following factors:
1. Environmental
2. Social
3.Cultural (including
governance) 4. Economic.
Some say that
sustainable development is dead with the current wave of conservative ideals
and economic prosperity throughout the world; the "What's In It for Me"
(WIIFM) attitude seems to be growing. However it is certainly not dead in the Australia Curriculum: Geography where it is clearly stated as Aim 5, that :
The
F-10 Australian Curriculum: Geography aims to ensure that students develop:
- as informed, responsible and active citizens who can contribute to the development of
the development of an environmentally and economically sustainable, and socially just world.
Further detail on where sustainability lives in the Australian Curriculum: Geography can be accessed by clicking on the Dropbox file below of my presentation in Brisbane on 18 April 2013.