A Need to Rebuild as an Opportunity to
Advance the Pursuit of Sustainable Development
education to advance sustainable development
This is an immediate, real-world challenge: modules are service learning - students learn while helping meet a real need.
- A module embedded in each of the others as appropriate addresses computer usage to promote effective online collaborative learning.
- A history module provides context, identifying a selection of episodes from the past when a need to rebuild was seized on as an opportunity - or not. Consider Germany after 1945.
Some basic tools-oriented, building block modules:
- The Policy Process. formulate, analyze, select, implementat, adaptat
- Uncertainty and Risk. decision-making in the context of incomplete, conflicting data (process data critically, seek alternative perspectives, synthesize, recognize / formulate priorities, identify key points)
- Teamwork in Developing Project Proposals. building teams, formulating objectives, working together effectively, getting good results.
- Funding Projects. researching alternative funding sources, developing targeted proposals, relationship management.
Some math / science modules with policy relevance: Probability, Constrained Optimization, Principle of Least Action, Modelling, Chemical Kinetics, Air Pollution, Global Warming, Weather and Earth Science.
A capstone module integrating different aspects of regional development
such as energy usage, transportation, pollution.
Modules build on an annotated collection of resources: reading list, internet links, contacts. Participants evolve future offerings (logistics, research).