The Culture of Sustainability: How sustainability can forge critical approaches to teaching.

Brief description of session and activities

Initial activity: - Sustainability is…? - How do sustainable issues appear in disciplines? - What assumptions do these carry?

Teaching section: - Sustainability carried within culture - Whose culture is it anyway? - Tools to think about sustainability and culture - Sustainability and the critical practitioner

End activity: - Engaging students in sustainability – theory into practice.

How will students be involved in the session?

NA

What will participants take away from the session?

Better understanding of sustainability its relation to culture and how teachers can use this understanding to develop a critical approach to teaching.