Janet Lavery
Getting Sustainable Development into the Curriculum
Lavery, Janet; Burd, Liz; Hodgson, Brendan
Authors
Liz Burd
Brendan Hodgson
Abstract
Industry and government are in agreement that students graduating from higher education need to be more aware of social, ethical, and cultural issues prior to entering the workforce [1, 2]. The UK government is particularly vocal in its belief that undergraduates should graduate with a good understanding of sustainable development issues [2]. Finding a way to include additional and complex content into a heavily timetabled computer science undergraduate degree programme is difficult. Within Durham a Sustainable Development Workshop, that takes the form of a competition between tutorial groups, has been developed as a means to introduce the subject into the curriculum. This paper provides details of, and reflections on, our first attempt at this workshop and outlines our planned changes for next year.
Citation
Lavery, J., Burd, L., & Hodgson, B. (2006). Getting Sustainable Development into the Curriculum. In 7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences : 29-31 August 2006, Dublin, Ireland ; proceedings (23-28)
Conference Name | 7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences |
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Conference Location | Dublin, Ireland |
Start Date | Aug 29, 2006 |
End Date | Aug 31, 2006 |
Publication Date | Aug 1, 2006 |
Deposit Date | Dec 8, 2009 |
Publicly Available Date | Jan 8, 2010 |
Pages | 23-28 |
Book Title | 7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for Information and Computer Sciences : 29-31 August 2006, Dublin, Ireland ; proceedings. |
Keywords | Employability, Sustainable development, Active learning, Teaching ethics. |
Publisher URL | http://www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/Events/HEADublin2006_V2/programme.htm |
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