EDM7203: Education for Sustainable Development

The course is a core cross-cutting course for all students enrolled in any Master degree programme at the Faculty. The course is aimed at equipping students with a critical understanding of the Sustainable Development (SD) and Education for Sustainable (ESD) principles, debate and practices focusing on social, environmental, political and economic forces underlying sustainable development. The course describes sustainable development challenges, conflicts and explores potential approaches to address their causes. The course adopts global and local comparative perspective, exploring the specific conditions for intervention in different contexts from all over the world. It equips the learners with the knowledge and skills to initiate and promote sustainability practices, and prepares the learners to become educators of sustainable development within their community.  

Course objectives  
The objectives of the course are to:

• Introduce students to the issues, principles and concepts and practices of sustainable     development.
• Critically examine the theory and practice of environment and sustainable development at     
• the international, national and urban levels in a variety of contexts. 
• Provide an understanding of the processes generating social and environmental change and     with the skills and abilities to respond to such changes
• Provide graduates with skills for educating for sustainable development
• Provide a forum for students to engage with community in issues that affect humanity and     sustainable development.
• Develop students’ skills and competence in community engagement practices.
• Produce professional community leaders who are reflexive, critical and sensitive to 

Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

• Acquire knowledge and skills for sustainable development
• Educate for sustainable development
• Influence the community to adopt sustainable development practices    
• Initiate Sustainable practices, projects in their schools
• Competently participate in community development projects