Mills, Reece, and Tomas, Louisa (2020) Realising the sustainability cross-curriculum priority through action-orientated and transformative geography education. Geographical Education, 33. pp. 11-17.

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Abstract

Sustainability is an important cross-curriculum priority in Australian education that is not commonly realised in schools and classrooms. In this article, we discuss the challenges and opportunities to enacting sustainability, suggesting that both top-down (systemic schoolwide leadership and support) and bottom-up (individual educator’s reflexivity) support for sustainability is needed. We postulate that an action-oriented and transformative geography education may support the realisation of sustainable world views for learners, and we present a simple learning progression for action-oriented education, adapted from the Australian Curriculum: Humanities and Social Sciences, for achieving this aim. In this way, geography teachers may be empowered to embed sustainability in their day-to-day teaching.

Item ID:	63685
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	2204-0242
Keywords:	Education for sustainability; cross-curriculum priorities; geography education; action-oriented education; transformative pedagogy
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Copyright Information:	Copyright of all material published in the journal, Geographical Education, including digital publication in any form is held by AGTA Ltd.
Date Deposited:	17 Nov 2020 01:55
FoR Codes:	39 EDUCATION > 3901 Curriculum and pedagogy > 390106 Geography education curriculum and pedagogy @ 50% 39 EDUCATION > 3903 Education systems > 390307 Teacher education and professional development of educators @ 50%
SEO Codes:	93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9302 Teaching and Instruction > 930202 Teacher and Instructor Development @ 50% 93 EDUCATION AND TRAINING > 9303 Curriculum > 930302 Syllabus and Curriculum Development @ 50%
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