UNESCO Sustainable Development Goals Competencies

Education for Sustainable Development Goals: learning objectives (2017), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) contains eight cross-cutting competencies that are “interrelated with each other, transversal, multifunctional, content-independent, and key for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)“. They include: Each SDG and associated cross-cutting competency has learning objectives described in the following domains:

1.7 Stories + Systems

Storytelling is a key component in modern life. With the enormity of available information, it is difficult to get cut through unless you can tell a story well. To explore this special skills further I listened to a podcast interview with Boyd Varty, a lion tracker who runs retreats in South Africa. According to Boyd,… Continue reading 1.7 Stories + Systems

1.5 Doing Feedback

Introduction Giving and receiving feedback is an integral part of interpersonal communication and key to understanding our ourselves in the context of complex cultural dynamics. We relate to one another through feedback. Deep listening and generosity is key fhwiphfqiwqoi Online Feedback nivoehivweoas

1.4 Interviewing

We need to continually have a dialogue about oppression but how do we do this in the context that the personal is political. Social and artist research involves active interviewing but how do we define active interviewing that incorporates the need for more reflection on the intersecting ways that reflexivity, power dynamics, and subjective positionality… Continue reading 1.4 Interviewing

Fall Festival of Failure

An exploration creative idea generation Failure is not an end in itself. Change narratives around failure. Is this example of white middle class privilege. No fan of cancel culture (lean into curiosity instead – casts them out). Too much critique can result in throwing the baby out with the bath water (16th century). The idea… Continue reading Fall Festival of Failure

Assessment Unit 1

The focus in Unit 1 ‘Curiosity + Place’ is context, complexity and connectivity. We will be assessed on a performative lecture where we make meanings and presenting ideas through performance. We should also reference systems thinking.