Dear GEP-ED colleagues, I hope you're off to a good start in 2016.
I'm preparing a new course (in French) on sustainable development for first-year students of a Master in Environmental Sciences; their backgrounds range from biology to human geography, law, business, hotel management, and even nursing. Since the course is limited to seven 4-hour sessions, I don't want to spend much (if any) time going over the history, main debates, and current developments (that could easily be an entire course on its own ...). At the same time, I think it's important that they acquire some basic knowledge of key concepts, events/dates, actors, and instruments. To this end, I plan to have them work together and in small groups to create a set of flash cards they, future students, and any other interested persons can use. The flash card set will be published online using http://card2brain.ch/en, but there are certainly other tools like it. To provide them with the background material for creating the cards (to be read ahead of the first session, in the sense of an inverted/flipped classroom), I'm looking for article or chapter-length readings and hope you can help me identify what you consider the best ones; they can be general ones on the early or more recent origins, or focused on special topics such as strong versus weak sustainability, Local Agenda 21, sustainability assessments, or SDGs. While the cards will be in French, many of the students read more easily in English, so I'm looking for readings in both English and French. Please respond to me directly and I will send the collection back to the list. Many thanks and best regards, Jörg -- __________________________________________________________________________ Jörg Balsiger Swiss National Science Foundation Professor Department of Geography and Environment Institute for Environmental Governance and Territorial Development University of Geneva Uni Carl Vogt 66 Boulevard Carl-Vogt, B308 CH-1211 Geneva 4 Tel: +41 (0)22 379 9453 [email protected] __________________________________________________________________________ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
