The concepts of Lifelong and action-oriented learning have led to a shift in the science of teaching. The practical applications of what we are taught, from our first experience with formal education to our years of continuing post-formal learning, are slowly becoming more entrenched in ‘real life’, ‘beyond the classroom walls’ teaching and learning. This shift in teaching strategies lends itself to a transition in the thinking of our society’s norms. Now more than ever, people are taking notice of and are more active in, the larger world beyond the confines of the walls that surround them.
Educating for Sustainable Development
Education for Sustainability Development (EfSD) applies the concepts of lifelong and action-oriented learning to the natural, social and economic capital that surrounds us. An expanding social consciousness has led the drive towards a sense of a wider community, and an individual understanding of the impact our actions and reactions have upon the natural world. Education for sustainability Development is an emerging, yet dynamic concept that encompasses a new vision of education that seeks to “empower people of all ages to assume responsibility for creating a sustainable future”(National Centre of Sustainability). EfS strives to involve the stakeholders in our planet in the processes necessary to maintain and improve our relationship to our world, our homes.
Ecofacts for business
Are you interested in improving the economic bottom line of your business, reducing your overall environmental impact, and strengthening your business community and team engagement? FWR Group's Ecofacts Program can do just that. Ecofacts encourages you to move beyond environmental performance and compliance, and develop a ‘sustainable personality’ for your business.
First, we look at the economic, environmental and social aspects of your business. Through a process of consultation and review, we help you identify sustainability strategies that will work for your business. Together, we develop a plan for action, and the best way to monitor and modify the outcomes. Through our Ecofacts program, we continue to support and facilitate the processes necessary for change.
The knowledge and tools we share through Ecofacts can truly transform your organisation...
Ecofacts for educational institutions
Schools and tertiary institutions around Australia are working on their ‘sustainable personalities'. This is happening both through state-based Sustainable Schools Programs and individual projects run by passionate and motivated students, educators and administrators. At FWR Group, we can help ‘green' your classroom with our Ecofacts System.
Educators want the facts…FWR Group's Ecofacts System aims to help you reduce the environmental impact of your educational institution, while improving the economic bottom line and strengthening community through a process of Triple Bottom Line teaching. Ecofacts encourages you and your students to move beyond environmental performance and towards a more holistic ‘sustainable personality'.
Through a professional development, consultation, and mentorship process, we find out what your institution wants and needs in sustainability strategies. Then we work with you to develop a plan for achieving those goals
Getting involved in Education for Sustainability
There are many opportunities to be involved in EfS within your community and actions often speak, lead, and teach, louder than words alone. FWR Group provides services and resources for many groups that are looking to adopt sustainable practices.
Some of these services include:
- Educational Resource Materials for Teachers
- Action Research opportunities
- Sustainability Studies and Primary Investigations
- Field Trips to examples of Environmentally Sustainable Development
- Community EfS seminars
- Sustainable Personalities for Small to Medium Business Enterprises
- EfS Consulting for Local City Councils and Educational Institutions/Groups
FWR Group believes that for a shift in the understanding, acceptance, and application of sustainable practices to take place, a transition is first needed in the process by which people are taught and learn, about their impact on the natural world.
Education for Sustainability is an integral part of this transition.
