Aiming for Full Coverage—Integrating Sustainability Education into All Undergraduate Courses at La Trobe University, Australia: Achievements, Lessons Learnt and Barriers Addressed

摘要: In 2012, La Trobe University committed to ensuring that every undergraduate student, across all disciplines, will have significant and assessed experience of three ‘Essentials’ learning: Sustainability Thinking; Global Citizenship; Innovation Entrepreneurship. These broadly align with the principles promoted through Decade Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). This initiative by constitutes one first examples whole-of-institution embedding sustainability education into courses. Essentials are more than content; they designed develop students’ capacity address our most pressing global challenges. To achieve this, action was needed so there alignment policy, strategy, resourcing regulation at levels. Each Essential is tailored within each discipline, in partnerships between University-wide curriculum officers, Faculty teams, course subject coordinators. turn has led agreed approaches development assessment reporting Thinking other Essentials. Auditing methods been developed map occurrence subjects likely contain Essentials, as a starting point exploring which can be subjects, or re-designed this purpose. auditing may assistance higher institutions. Examples how already incorporated include core unit Business Management courses, cross-disciplinary elective on Climate, Society, large, high enrolment Humanities-based entitled Food Thought. The widely supported academic staff. Their enthusiasm, along senior management endorsement expertise centrally Faculties, helped overcome many barriers encountered implementing