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Edin - Learning for a Sustainable Future 

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Learning for a Sustainable Future
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Overview

Duration

5 weeks

Total fee

2,519

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Learning for a Sustainable Future
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FutureLearn 
Highlights

  • Duration 5 weeks
  • Weekly study 2 hours
  • 100% online Learn at your own pace
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Learning for a Sustainable Future
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Course details

Skills you will learn
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  • On this five-week course, you'll develop an informed personal response to these major challenges as you're supported to take positive actions towards a sustainable future.
  • You'll learn more about current global issues and consider how we can all take action, personally or locally.
  • The course has an additional strand for those working in formal or informal education, who want to bring some of the activities and issues covered in the course into their own teaching.
  • You'll learn practical ways to explore values and empower people to examine the ways in which they could take local action on global-scale problems.
  • Working in this way, starting from where you are within your own context, and sharing this with others throughout the course helps us all to develop a new and collective way of thinking for a sustainable future.
  • You'll build your understanding of and knowledge of sustainability and the global challenges that we face and experience within our lives, as you learn from experts at the University of Edinburgh, Learning for Sustainability Scotland and other participants on the course.
  • By the end of the course, you'll be more confident and ready to take steps towards a sustainable future.
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Learning for a Sustainable Future
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FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Disruption: Reorienting our thoughts

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Reorienting our thoughts

Educational framing

Thinking Deeply: Values, beliefs and local issues.

Values, beliefs and local issues

Educational framing

Understanding Broadly: Systems thinking and wider positioning

Systems thinking and wider positioning

Educational framing

Taking Action: From knowing to doing

From knowing to doing

Educational framing

Futures Thinking: Reflection and planning

Reflecting and planning

Educational framing

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