COASTAL: (Curriculum,Outcomes,And Sustainable Teaching, Assessment,Learning) Sustainable Development in HE

Our project aims to identify, share and encourage the uptake of successful models and strategies for embedding sustainable development in the HE curriculum in terms of learning outcomes, learning and teaching practices, and assessment. We will ask: - What are the criteria, definitions , examples and models for effective and sustainable development (SD) in the HE curriculum? - How can HE student SD learning outcomes be achieved, expressed, embedded through different disciplines and across disciplines, and via community and volunteering opportunities? - How can effective models for SD learning be shared locally and with the HE sector? Our project builds on existing work at the University of Brighton which has started to bring together a ‘community of involvement’ on sustainable development. The project aims to enhance and expand a community of staff, students and community representatives who are working to embed sustainable development within and across university curricula and across university and community boundaries. We will undertake telephone and face to face interviews with staff, focus groups with students, and site visits to external universities, to gather criteria, examples, models and information and develop case studies on effective strategies for embedding sustainable development in the HE curriculum. These case studies will be shared with colleagues at Brighton and with the wider academic community via the ESCalate website and via a joint ESCalate/Brighton one day workshop