research sub-committee report
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Research Sub-Committee Report. Committee Membership. David Zandvliet (Chair) Bob Adamson Lyle Benko Heather Creech Grant Gardner Jean Paul L’Italien Kim Peters Christina McDonald (Acting Chair) Glen Suter Shirley Tagalik. Meetings. Two Teleconferences: November 13, 2007 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
ResearchResearch Sub-Committee Sub-Committee
ReportReport
Committee Membership David Zandvliet (Chair) Bob Adamson Lyle Benko Heather Creech Grant Gardner Jean Paul L’Italien Kim Peters Christina McDonald (Acting Chair) Glen Suter Shirley Tagalik
Meetings
Two Teleconferences: • November 13, 2007• January 14, 2008
Our Goal
4.Identify, nurture and disseminate ESD research to provincial/territorial ESD Working Groups and national and international organizations as appropriate
Planning and ActionObjectives Activities Outcomes Progress to
DateFuture
Milestones/Target Date
4.1 Identify ESD research and describe ESD possibilities through development of a rational and framework
ESD Research Foundation Paper
An ESD Foundation Paper on ESD Research will be developed to guide the work of the NESDEC Research Sub-Committee
Begun to develop a Statement of ESD Research
June 2008
Planning and Actionwww.umce.ca/cours/jplitalien/NESDEC/index.htm
Objectives Activities Outcomes Progress to Date
Future Milestones/Target Date
4.1 Identify ESD research and describe ESD possibilities through development of a rational and framework
ESD Research Website
ESD Bibliography
Identifying ESD research and making it accessible through the internet to practitioners / educators
Electronic list of what exists regarding ESD Research
Begun to collect links for ESD research and developed a website that consists of those links
June 2008
Planning and Action
Objectives Activities Outcomes Progress to Date
Future Milestones/Target Date
4.2 Stimulate the creation of a journal that articulates an ESD research agenda or include discussion of ESD in existing publication
4.3 Explore alternatives to make ESD research more accessible
March 2008 – January 2009
September 08-March 2009
International, National, Local Research Initiatives
Reporting on ESD in Canada (Council of Ministers of Education)
Setting a baseline of sustainable development knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of Manitoban adults and youth (International Institute for Sustainable Development -IISD)
Sustainable Campus Policy Bank (IISD)
International, National, Local Research Initiatives
• Research into the current uses and trends for deploying Information and Communications Technologies in ESD (IISD)
• Crystal Research focusing on ESD (NSERC)• U.N. Regional Centres of Excellence • Survey Monkey (LSF)
International, National, Local Research Initiatives
Report on Curriculum ESD Conferences
• Saskatchewan - May 26, and 27, 2008. International RCE Conference of the Americas
• Manitoba – November 26-28, 2008 Nations Under One Sky – Linking Education and
Sustainable Development SEdA (Sustainability and Education
Academy)
Discussion
Survey Monkey tool Role of SEdA /ESD Conferences Assessment and Sharing
Christina McDONALD Christina McDONALD PH.D.PH.D.
[email protected]@GOV.MB.CA
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