ResearchResearch Sub-Committee Sub-Committee

ReportReport

Committee Membership David Zandvliet (Chair) Bob Adamson Lyle Benko Heather Creech Grant Gardner Jean Paul L’Italien Kim Peters Christina McDonald (Acting Chair) Glen Suter Shirley Tagalik

Meetings

Two Teleconferences: • November 13, 2007• January 14, 2008

Our Goal

4.Identify, nurture and disseminate ESD research to provincial/territorial ESD Working Groups and national and international organizations as appropriate

Planning and ActionObjectives Activities Outcomes Progress to

DateFuture

Milestones/Target Date

4.1 Identify ESD research and describe ESD possibilities through development of a rational and framework

ESD Research Foundation Paper

An ESD Foundation Paper on ESD Research will be developed to guide the work of the NESDEC Research Sub-Committee

Begun to develop a Statement of ESD Research

June 2008

Planning and Actionwww.umce.ca/cours/jplitalien/NESDEC/index.htm

Objectives Activities Outcomes Progress to Date

Future Milestones/Target Date

4.1 Identify ESD research and describe ESD possibilities through development of a rational and framework

ESD Research Website

ESD Bibliography

Identifying ESD research and making it accessible through the internet to practitioners / educators

Electronic list of what exists regarding ESD Research

Begun to collect links for ESD research and developed a website that consists of those links

June 2008

Planning and Action

Objectives Activities Outcomes Progress to Date

Future Milestones/Target Date

4.2 Stimulate the creation of a journal that articulates an ESD research agenda or include discussion of ESD in existing publication

4.3 Explore alternatives to make ESD research more accessible

March 2008 – January 2009

September 08-March 2009

International, National, Local Research Initiatives

Reporting on ESD in Canada (Council of Ministers of Education)

Setting a baseline of sustainable development knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of Manitoban adults and youth (International Institute for Sustainable Development -IISD)

Sustainable Campus Policy Bank (IISD)

International, National, Local Research Initiatives

• Research into the current uses and trends for deploying Information and Communications Technologies in ESD (IISD)

• Crystal Research focusing on ESD (NSERC)• U.N. Regional Centres of Excellence • Survey Monkey (LSF)

International, National, Local Research Initiatives

Report on Curriculum ESD Conferences

• Saskatchewan - May 26, and 27, 2008. International RCE Conference of the Americas

• Manitoba – November 26-28, 2008 Nations Under One Sky – Linking Education and

Sustainable Development SEdA (Sustainability and Education

Academy)

Discussion

Survey Monkey tool Role of SEdA /ESD Conferences Assessment and Sharing

Christina McDONALD Christina McDONALD PH.D.PH.D.

CHRISTINA.MCDONALD@GOV.MB.CACHRISTINA.MCDONALD@GOV.MB.CA

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