Place-Based Education for Sustainability in Gippsland Schools: A Report for Participating Schools and the Wider School Communities in Australia about the Implementation of Place-Based Sustainability Curriculum

This report is part of a larger project, ‘Place-based Education for Sustainability: Linking teachers and teacher education students in place-based learning’, a longitudinal study designed to investigate how to embed the approaches of schools that practise integrated place-based learning into the curriculum and pedagogies of teacher education. An essential aspect of the second year of this study was to understand the nature and type of sustainability education practices in a range of schools across the Gippsland region in order to provide a broader location for practicum placement than the single school we partnered with in Year 1 (Somerville & Green, 2012). Ten schools had self-identified in another study for further in-depth research (Somerville & Green, 2013), and eight of these schools volunteered to participate in a study of their sustainability education and to accept groups of pre-service teachers for their practicum placement.