Holding a Sustainability Bearing through Cutty-Grass and Clearings: Implementing Sustainability during Disruptive Organisational Changes

Autor/inn/en	North, Chris; Jansen, Chris
Titel	Holding a Sustainability Bearing through Cutty-Grass and Clearings: Implementing Sustainability during Disruptive Organisational Changes
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Outdoor Education, 16 (2013) 2, S.2-11 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1324-1486
Schlagwörter	Sustainability; Program Implementation; Strategic Planning; Outdoor Education; Environmental Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Curriculum Development; Educational Change; Organizational Change; Teacher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachhaltigkeit; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Freiluftunterricht; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Curriculum; Development; Curriculumentwicklung; Lehrplan; Entwicklung; Bildungsreform; Organisationswandel; Lehrerausbildung; Lehrerbildung
Abstract	This article explores our experiences as faculty implementing a five year sustainability strategic plan within the Outdoor and Environmental Education (OEE) curriculum centre during a time of organisational restructuring. This paper builds on the work of Jansen and Boardman (2011) who describe the process of developing the strategic plan and some initiatives arising from it. Now at the end of the five year timeframe and with the benefit of hindsight, we describe some of the problematic aspects of our sustainability initiative. The role of a strategic plan appears crucial in providing a general bearing, however remaining "true" to a small centre and its vision also limited possibilities for interdisciplinary sustainability. We discuss how disruptive organisational changes provided unexpected opportunities for our sustainability initiative. The on-going journey through "cutty-grass thickets" and "clearings" for sustainability is described with a view to providing inspired self-generalisation for others on a similar journey. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10