Published October 4, 2012
by iris_author
Date: Friday October 5th, 2012
Location: Online
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
The Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies invites you to our October online offerings of the 2012/2013 LA&PS Alumni & Student Speaker Series.
Hear Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar, David Bell (Evironmental Studies), in an interactive online presentation on Friday, October 5th from 12-1pm, on The Challenges of Sustainability and the Role of ESD (Education for Sustainable Development).
Dr. Bell will focus on the challenge of sustainability which he defines as an educational challenge for humankind. Can we as a species LEARN TO LIVE DIFFERENTLY on this planet? Educators play an important role in encouraging the requisite new learning, but their role is more as facilitators of learning than as the font of knowledge which they will impart to others. After outlining the scope and nature of the sustainability challenge in terms of its economic, environmental and social dimensions, Dr. Bell proposes that we discuss the kinds of teaching and learning that will likely be required in response to the challenge. He will offer some reflections on York's role as we move into the second half of York's first century.
A political scientist by training, David was an undergraduate at York University in its earliest years, graduating with his B.A. in 1965. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1969, and taught at Michigan State University for 2 years before returning to York in 1971. He served as Dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies (1981 87) and Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies from 1992 1996 at York University.
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