Dear all, A quick follow-up to the request for sustainable development background readings from earlier this year: the flash card set the students created in my course is now openly accessible to anybody interested in brushing up their SD facts (in French) at http://card2brain.ch/box/test315
Best regards, Jörg On 01/06/2016 02:12 PM, Jörg Balsiger wrote: > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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.
