Followed by a tour of Bicton College and the construction of their new EaRTH (Environmental and Renewable Technologies Hub) and a brief coalition meeting.
Free transport available from Exeter St. David’s Station (please advise if you need a lift).
All welcome!
How do you measure learning for sustainability?
Are you data-informed or data-driven? Do the things that count get counted? Do we learn more from hitting targets or looking around (and beyond) them? And are those who decide what we measure, always best placed to do so? Sustainability is seen by many as a slippery concept while education itself is
politically fraught; so a composite concept like ESD almost defies measurement, doesn’t it? Yet a failure to provide ‘hard data’, often measured against ‘key performance indicators’ can be seen as a critical weakness, undermining our arguments in favour of learning for sustainability in policy and practice.
So our first Coalition Seminar will focus on the thorny issue of monitoring and evaluation. We’ll start with some basics but we want to build on your experience with the aim of extending our thinking about and beyond key performance indictors.
We welcome 5-10 minute contributions from you to get us started; please come with your own examples of what/how you measure and bring your questions too. If you can make a contribution or would like to discuss this ahead of the event, please contact Paul Vare at: Learning4L@aol.com
If you intend to attend please contact Elsa Lee at swlfsc@gmail.com
About Us
The Coalition, which was established in 2004 and has grown through the voluntary efforts of members and supportive institutions, exists to champion education for sustainable development [ESD] in the region. The glue that binds SWLfSC together is, firstly, a shared conviction that sustainable development is a priority, and that learning is the key to this; and, secondly, commonly-held values around the importance of education, the need to promote systems thinking and active citizenship, and the central importance of co-operation across interests and communities.
For further information...
It is free to join. Please email swlfsc@gmail.com to become a member.
If you would like to advertise a regional event through our network please email Paul Vare (learning4l@aol.com) and he will add it to the monthly update.
It is free to join. Please email swlfsc@gmail.com to become a member.
If you would like to advertise a regional event through our network please email Paul Vare (learning4l@aol.com) and he will add it to the monthly update.
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Members of the Board of Directors
Paul Vare - Executive Director
Professor William Scott - Chair
Mairi Kershaw - Treasurer
Elsa Lee - Secretary
Helen Adams
Rupert Bannister
Sarah Chave
Lynn Cutler
Jo Matthews
Professor Stephen Sterling
Professor William Scott - Chair
Mairi Kershaw - Treasurer
Elsa Lee - Secretary
Helen Adams
Rupert Bannister
Sarah Chave
Lynn Cutler
Jo Matthews
Professor Stephen Sterling
Where some of our individual members work
- Architecture Centre
- Bicton EaRTH
- Bournemouth Borough Council
- Bradley Stoke Community School
- Bristol City County Council
- Bristol University
- Camp Kernow
- Carymoor Environmental Trust
- Cascade Up
- Castle School
- CBI
- CCFV Volunteer Cornwall
- Centre for Research in Education and the Environment (CREE) at The University of Bath
- Centre for Sustainable Energy
- Chagford Primary School
- City College Plymouth
- CPRE
- CREATE Centre
- creating excellence
- CSE
- Devon County Council
- Devon Wildlife Trust
- Dorset County Council
- Eden Project
- EDF Energy
- Education Dialogue Group
- Employment and Skills Partnership
- ENCAMS
- Energy Action Devon
- Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC)
- Field Studies Council
- Global Action Plan
- Global Learning and Development Education
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust
- Groundwork Devon and Cornwall
- Hinchley Wood Primary School
- LANTRA
- Learning South West
- Libra Foundation School
- Malmesbury School
- NIACE
- Ofsted
- Plymouth City Council
- Plymouth City Council
- Regional Assembly
- Regional Development Agency
- Resource Futures
- ReZolve
- Severn and Wye Energy Agency (SWEA)
- Sharpham Trust, The
- SITA
- Skills and Learning Intelligence Module, The (SLIM)
- Skills Funding Agency (SFA)
- Somerset College
- Somerset Wildlife Trust
- South Gloucestershire County Council
- Stroud Communiversity
- Sustainability South West
- Sustainable Thornbury
- The Magdalen Project
- Think Global (DEA)
- University of Exeter
- University of Gloucestershire
- University of Plymouth
- University of the West of England (UWE)
- Vision 21 Gloucestershire
- Waste Watch
- Westonbirt Arboretum
- Who Will Save Us?
- Wilderness Centre
- Wiltshire College
- Wiltshire County Council
- Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
- World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
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