ASET The Work Based Learning and Placement Learning Association
Abstract
There is increasing drive to incorporate sustainability into higher education and interest in the role educators can play in promoting sustainable development. Studies to date have largely focussed on institution level activity, with recent interest in how this can be incorporated into teaching. The purpose of this workshop is to focus on work-related learning activity and explore how sustainability competencies can be implemented in this area. We explore the thoughts of employability stakeholders such as university managers; academic staff; employers and placement students to shape our approach in developing our curriculum to incorporate sustainability. Workshop participants will be encouraged to consider the benefits of incorporating sustainability with employability, and how sustainability may be applied to their own specific context and environment. This workshop explores pedagogical approaches around the creation of responsible citizens for local action and global impact and looks to understand how placement students could be empowered to drive the sustainability agenda in their host organisations. We suggest that students on work placements could act as catalysts for sustainability and are keen to explore best practice at the intersection of sustainability and employability education with fellow employability practitioners
