Case studies archive

Education for sustainable development case studies

Creative Writing in Cardiff Museum November 2010: Creative writing students visited Cardiff Museum to use items in the collection as the basis for their work.

Trees in Representation and Reality: An Induction Activity for English Language Students November 2010: As part of induction at the University of Gloucestershire, first-year English Language students conducted an outdoor exercise assessing the relationship between representations of trees and their physical presence.

Poetry and Sustainability November 2010: Students went on a field trip to Kingley Vale nature reserve in West Sussex as part of a module on contemporary poetry and the environment.

From Climate to Landscape: Imagining the Future (CLIF) November 2010: Students used a field trip to Cornwall as the basis for creative projects imagining the future impact of climate change. This extra-curricular activity, part of the interdisciplinary CLIF project, led to presentations at a major academic conference. This case study was part of the English Subject Centre's 'Bringing the Outside In' case studies initiative.

Awareness into action: linking learning with research in ecolinguistics: This case study describes the close linkages made between teaching and research in the Language and Ecology module at the University of Gloucestershire. As part of the module, students become involved in the international Language & Ecology Research Forum, contributing insights from their own research and reflection at a variety of levels from short comment to full articles.