Mainstreaming Education for Sustainability into Pre-service Teacher Education in Australia: Stage 3

Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts, 2010

Project. Available at http://aries.mq.edu.au/projects/preservice3/

This report offers suggestions and recommendations about actions that might be taken by education systems, university policymakers, academics and teacher educators to advance the inclusion of sustainable learning and practice within pre-service teacher education. Building on the Stage 1 and Stage 2 projects that developed and trialled a systemic change model within the education system in Queensland, this Stage 3 project extended the model of change towards sustainability to NSW and ACT pre-service teacher education. The aim of the project is to further the policy of the Australian Government, set out in the National Action Plan on Education for Sustainability (www.environment.gov.au/education/nap), and to contribute to the implementation of the National Environmental Education Statement for Australian Schools (www.environment.gov.au/education/publications/sustainable-future.html).