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Getting Sustainable Development into the Curriculum

Lavery, Janet; Burd, Liz; Hodgson, Brendan

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Janet Lavery

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
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 Mar 28, 2024
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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