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LAHC Region A Conference on education for Sustainable Development

Enviado el 18 de August, 2010 por jmamani
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On Thursday 19th and Friday 20th August, a conference entitled Education for Sustainable Development in our Schools, hosted by Hiram Bingham School, Surco, for bilingual schools and led by the British Schools of Lima will be focussing on incorporating learning about a sustainable future. The conference is in response to the changing direction of education at all levels and throughout the world towards preparing particularly our youth for the challenges ahead, concerning climate change, inequality, natural resource degradation and the need for changing patterns and mechanisms of consumption.

As the focus of their annual conference in May 2010 and held in Buenos Aires, heads and senior teachers from British schools across Latin America focussed on recent changes in education to allow our students a greater understanding of sustainable development issues. Continuing this process lead teachers and senior students will meet to learn more about essential new teaching and learning concepts and actions.
 
 The sustainability message is finally on everyone’s lips but who really understands it and more importantly what then are we teaching our children in their schools? Despite there being no ‘one size fits all’ textbook on Education for Sustainable Development many years of development has led to us now to tackling the issues facing local and global communities.
 
Lead teachers and students will be learning about a co-ordinated approach to developing Education for Sustainability through a series of active sessions. Not only will there be a focus on what we are teaching and learning in our schools, but also how the school campus operates sustainably within the wider community.

During the conference delegates and students from Hiram Bingham College will be constructing a large greenhouse made almost entirely from reused plastic bottles. The delegates and promoters will also be feasting on food that has been produced with minimal impact on environmental systems and that benefit local economies. The conference ‘carbon footprint’ will be considered through the planting of 700 trees in Huaraz District thanks to the contribution by Markham College students who are on a school visit. Live video progress will be beamed into the conference via Internet.

 

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