EDF3091 · Health, wellbeing and sustainability in global contexts

Overview

This unit develops your health-related knowledge, skills and capabilities by focusing on the role of educators in sustainability education and by association enhancing the health and wellbeing of young people now and in the future. The unit aims to build your understandings of the complex relationships between sustainability, health and wellbeing. This is done through a focus on ethics, equality, equity, justice and environment with links to personal and professional action and social change. The unit challenges you to think critically and creatively about twenty-first century health challenges and to move towards becoming more compassionate, empathetic and critically responsive humans and educators equipped with a glocal outlook on the many complex factors that contribute to a sustainable future and health for all.

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. identify, explain and exhibit accurate knowledge in relation to a number of glocal health, wellbeing and sustainability challenges of relevance to education
2. apply ethical, socio-cultural and critical theories in relation to personal, community and professional practices and when examining glocal health, wellbeing and sustainability challenges
3. research, access and evaluate information and resources of relevance to glocal health, wellbeing and sustainability as well as personal and professional practice
4. engage with, investigate and reflect upon a number of contemporary, emerging and future local and global challenges relating to health, wellbeing and sustainability
5. critically examine, propose and create sustainable solutions to contemporary and/or future emerging glocal health challenges of personal and/or professional relevance.
6. communicate ideas using a range of verbal and nonverbal communication strategies and collaborative techniques.

Workload

The minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per teaching period comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Usually, you can expect to engage with: • 24 hours* of scheduled learning delivered on campus via weekly/regular directed learning activities; and • the remaining hours to be allocated towards self-directed/independent study Scheduled learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. *Subject to variation due to professional experience requirements

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.