Useful Links for Education

• www.aare.edu.au

Australian Association for Research in Education.

• www.aashe.org

Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

• https://yes.myclimate.org/

Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES). A platform for young leaders to develop personally and professionally and acquire the skills and knowledge they need to address the challenges of sustainable development.

• http://acts.asn.au

Australian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) – sustainability in the tertiary sector in Australia and New Zealand.

• www.coolaustralia.org

Free, curriculum-linked sustainability education resources that comply with the national curriculum for students and teachers from early childhood to Year 10.

• www.criticalthinking.org

The Foundation for Critical Thinking aims to improve education in every subject at every level.

• http://eco-schools.org

The Foundation for Environmental Education promotes sustainable development through school education, staff development general awareness raising. The Eco-Schools programme involves seven steps that any school can adopt.

• www.esdtoolkit.org

Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit is an easy-to-use manual for individuals and organisations from both the education and community sectors. This resource addresses the potentially powerful alliance of school systems and communities working together to reach local sustainability goals. Together they can reorient existing curricula to create locally relevant and culturally appropriate education.

• www.facingthefuture.org

Free curriculum resources for primary and high-school students.

• www.iau-aiu.net/content/sustainable-development

UNESCO-based worlwide association of higher education institutions, promoting sustainable development.

• www.mq.edu.au/sustainability

Sustainability@MQ - The Macquarie University Sustainability Office.

• www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/your_world_my_world

This resource helps children aged 4-7 explore their own lives – and the world around them – by looking at the lives of other children from around the world.

• www.secondnature.org

Second Nature can help your college, university or association develop, advance, and achieve a vision of a truly sustainable higher education institution, one that fully prepares its graduates for the challenges of the 21st Century.

• sustainabilityeducators - subscribe@yahoogroups.com.au

An Australian support group for environmental educators, particularly those in local government. Send an email to the address above to subscribe to the list, or use the box below.

• www.ulsf.org

University Leaders for a Sustainable Future assists colleges and universities in making sustainability an integral part of curriculum, research, operations and outreach.

• http://en.unesco.org/themes/education-sustainable-development

UNESCO's Education for Sustainable Development website.

• www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/mods/theme_gs/mod0a.html

UNESCO Australia, Teaching and Learning for a Sustainable Future, is a multi-media professional development program for educators prepared by UNESCO on educating for a sustainable future.

• www.wwf.org.uk/about_wwf/working_with_schools/

WWF's site for those working to put Education for Sustainable Development at the heart of school life.

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