Promoting Meaningful Teaching and Learning Summit

The 'Promoting Meaningful Teaching and Learning' Summit was one of four Summits at the EAUC-Scotland Conference 2017. This Summit was chaired by Betsy King from Learning for Sustainability Scotland, and consisted of five presentations and a workshop. You can find the resources from the different presentations linked below.

• Promoting Meaningful Teaching and Learning Introduction - Betsy King, Learning for Sustainability Scotland
• Education for the future: critiquing, sharing and implementing the SDGs at FE and HE - Rehema White, University of St Andrews
• Outcomes of Education for Sustainable Development - Jamie Agombar, National Union of Students
• EAUC-Scotland's Careers Project - Gillian Gibson, EAUC Scotland
• Living Labs are the way forward for tertiary education institutions - Hassan Waheed, EAUC

The Summit workshop asked attendees what practical actions they already take to address Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in their institution/subject area, as well as what more could be done to promote meaningful teaching and learning.

Thoughts and considerations included:

• Education is important to encourage awareness of the impacts of individual and group decision-making
• Practical implementation of ESD into a real life context is key to embedding it
• Engagement with businesses and external partners is important for students, and to extend the audience and impact beyond the institution
• Audience-appropriate engagement methods are important
• Use both carrot and stick methods for embedding ESD
• Use both bottom up and top down approaches to help encourage a virtuous cycle

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EAUC-Scotland held their fourth conference on the 22nd February 2017 at the University of Stirling. Find all resources from the Conference using the tag EAUCS2017, and find out more about the event on the Conference webpages.