Love Your Lagoons: Place-based Learning and Environmental Action in South Western Sydney

Margaret Somerville; Kerith Power; Jen Dollin; Tonia Gray; Susanne Gannon; Carol Birrell; Lin Brown

Love Your Lagoons: Place-based Learning and Environmental Action in South Western Sydney

Margaret Somerville, Kerith Power, Jen Dollin, Tonia Gray, Susanne Gannon, Carol Birrell, Lin Brown

Western Sydney University

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The project Love Your Lagoons was developed in the context of the implementation of the Australian Curriculum. Sustainability is identified as one of three cross-curriculum priorities to be taught across all subject areas in order to: "address the ongoing capacity of Earth to maintain all life and meet the needs of the present without compromising the needs of future generations" (ACARA, 2013). New South Wales is scheduled to start implementing the curriculum in a staged sequence from 2014. The Centre for Educational Research at the University of Western Sydney (UWS), funded by AGL, conducted Love Your Lagoons from September 2013 to September 2014 with six schools from south western Sydney. The project's objectives were: to research the planning, implementation and evaluation of a cross sectoral wetlands education program for long term wetlands health; to document development of an engaged sustainability curriculum in school education; and to build strong and enduring cross sector community partnerships in wetlands education and management.

Original language	English
Place of Publication	Penrith, N.S.W.
Publisher	University of Western Sydney
Number of pages	100
ISBN (Print)	9781741083446
Publication status	Published - 2015

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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA. Copyright Regulations 1969. WARNING. This work is copyright. This work may be reproduced for private study, research or educational purposes and as permitted under the Copyright Act 1968 of the Commonwealth of Australia. Commercial copying, sale, hiring or lending is prohibited. Apart from the permitted uses as stated above no part of this work may be reproduced by any process without the written permission of University of Western Sydney. This work has been sponsored by the AGL Upstream Investments Pty Ltd. Any permitted reproduction must include a copy of this copyright notice and must acknowledge the sponsors.

Keywords

Centre for Western Sydney
Sydney, Southwestern (N.S.W.)
education
environmental education
lagoons
outdoor education
place-based education
sustainability

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Love Your Lagoons: Place-based Learning and Environmental Action in South Western Sydney

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