3 Making changes with sustainability in mind

This section discusses how changes towards teaching using sustainable pedagogies can be made. So far, Unit 2 has covered compassionate pedagogies but the ideas here can help your teaching move towards more sustainability-focused practices for your students.
The work of Stephen Stirling (2012) is covered, who produced the report The Future Fit Framework [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] – An introductory guide to teaching and learning for sustainability in HE. The ideas discussed here are from Chapter 10 ‘Simple change tools’ (p. 50 onwards). Although the ideas in The Future Fit Framework are designed for further education, these have been rephrased for making changes towards sustainability in teaching for any age of learner.
2.2 Examples of compassionate pedagogies