{"id":6312,"date":"2015-05-15T07:09:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T07:09:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6312"},"modified":"2015-05-15T07:09:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T07:09:46","slug":"new-standards-in-australian-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/05\/15\/new-standards-in-australian-he\/","title":{"rendered":"New Standards in Australian HE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are new national standards for <em>Environment and Sustainability<\/em> in\u00a0higher education across Australia whose role is to \"support the design and delivery of innovative higher education in the Environment and Sustainability field\". \u00a0They are included in the newly published\u00a0Learning and Teaching Academic Standards <a href=\"http:\/\/environmentltas.gradschool.edu.au\">Statement<\/a> for Environment and Sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The standards are grouped into four domains:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Transdisciplinary knowledge<\/li>\n<li>Systemic understanding<\/li>\n<li>Skills for environment and sustainability<\/li>\n<li>Ethical practice.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>They have been\u00a0endorsed by the Australian Council of Environmental Deans and Directors (ACEDD) which commissioned their development. \u00a0The Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching provided grant funding for the development work. \u00a0An\u00a0infographic summarising the development of the standards is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/environmentltas.gradschool.edu.au\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It's good to see this work being done, and is something that will merit\u00a0careful\u00a0scrutiny, particularly in relation to the vexed question of skills. \u00a0Expect further comment\u00a0about this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are new national standards for Environment and Sustainability in\u00a0higher education across Australia whose role is to \"support the design and delivery of innovative higher education in the Environment and Sustainability field\". \u00a0They are included in the newly published\u00a0Learning and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}