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Transformative Environmental Education - EDU00069H

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  • Department: Education
  • Credit value: 20 credits
  • Credit level: H
  • Academic year of delivery: 2025-26

Module summary

Everyone has a role to play in working together to secure a liveable future for all life on Earth. This experiential module provides students with an opportunity to learn about a diverse range of transformative environmental education approaches, and aims to support the next generation of leaders in environmental sustainability education to empower others to act towards a more just and sustainable future.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Semester 1 2025-26

Module aims

This experiential module aims to:

  • prepare you to lead change through the exploration of participatory, inclusive, hopeful and creative approaches to (transformative) environmental sustainability education

  • support you to effectively empower others to act towards a more just and sustainable future.

Module learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module you will be able to:

  • Assess the role of education in addressing global environmental problems in just and sustainable ways

  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of different approaches in environmental education

  • Critically reflect on the use of education to interrogate values, include stakeholders, elicit different perspectives, and work across difference on environmental issues

  • Understand a whole systems approach to environmental sustainability education and imagine alternative educational futures.

Graduate attributes that you will develop during this module include:

  • communication

  • creativity and innovation

  • critical thinking and analysis

  • digital literacy

  • group working

  • reflection

  • research

Module content

You will be supported in their learning through attendance of workshops in which an experiential approach to learning will be used.

Indicative content:

  • Global perspectives on environmental education for a just and sustainable future

  • Diverse learning approaches for environmental action

  • Writing effective policy briefs

Indicative assessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100.0

Special assessment rules

None

Indicative reassessment

Task % of module mark
Essay/coursework 100.0

Module feedback

Individual written feedback reports, with follow-up tutor meeting if necessary. The feedback is returned to students in line with university policy. Please check the Guide to Assessment, Standards, Marking and Feedback for more information

Indicative reading

A wide range of interdisciplinary research will be relevant to students studying this module, for example:.

Books

  • Lange, E.A. (2023) Transformative Sustainability Education - Reimagining Our Future. Routledge.

  • Walshe, N. and Sund. L. (Eds.) (2022) Developing (Transformative) Environmental and Sustainability Education in Classroom Practice. MDPI.

Journals

  • Environment, Development and Sustainability

  • Environmental Education Research

  • Journal of Environmental Education

  • Journal of Philosophy of Education

  • Sustainability

Specific reading will be suggested throughout the module.


The information on this page is indicative of the module that is currently on offer. The University constantly explores ways to enhance and improve its degree programmes and therefore reserves the right to make variations to the content and method of delivery of modules, and to discontinue modules, if such action is reasonably considered to be necessary. In some instances it may be appropriate for the University to notify and consult with affected students about module changes in accordance with the University's policy on the Approval of Modifications to Existing Taught Programmes of Study.