A panel discussion for the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence Andy Lau Associate Director Penn State Center for Sustainability February 5 2009 Questions What is sustainability What are the principles of sustainability ID: 604480
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Educating for Sustainability
A panel discussion for the
Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence
Andy Lau
Associate Director, Penn State Center for Sustainability
February 5, 2009Slide2
Questions
What is sustainability?
What are the principles of sustainability?
How do we teach it?
What does it mean for Penn State and higher
ed
?Slide3
What is sustainability?
It is a way of living that strives to make life better …For all people alive today
For all living creatures alive today
For all of life in the future
In other words, it is a an ethic for living that emphasizes responsibility to quality of life for now and the future.
Its watchword …
HarmonySlide4
What are the principles?
From Andres Edwards, The Sustainability Revolution
, the common themes are:
Stewardship
Respect for limits
Interdependence
Economic restructuring
Fair distribution
Intergenerational perspective
Nature as a model and teacher.
Religion, ethics
Ecology, ethics
Politics, e
cology
Economics, ethics
Ethics, Sociology
HHD, ethics
Ecology, BiologySlide5
How do we teach it?
SystemsMulti-disciplinaryValues
Nature
I=PAT
ProjectsSlide6
What does it mean for Penn State and higher ed?
“Long ago we surrendered the idea of guiding students to a larger vision of self and life in favor of merely well-paying careers.”
David Orr,
The Nature of Design
Become “learning organizations” to reinvent HE
Systems thinking: change who has lunch with whom
Engage real & messy problems
Get off corporate welfare
Need leaders