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Engaging students in Environmental Science: Re-legitimising experts embedding skills development for sound science and policy relevance - STEM Conference 2018

Climate and other environmental science is under existential attack. STEM graduates working in scholarly and professional fields must develop process skills alongside subject knowledge to re-establish and legitimise their professional identifies. This workshop aims to equip delegates to leave with concrete ideas to embed subject learning with scholarly and professional process skill development and promote engagement in the process. To achieve this it briefly presents examples from two interdisciplinary initiatives at the University of Warwick both designed to create strong student engagement and deep STEM learning:
1) a core 1st year module on Environmental Principles from the new B.A.Sc. Global Sustainable Development
2) a central university optional module on the Challenges of Climate Change.
These illustrate how structural alignment focused around “authentic assessment” and embedded skills training can drive student engagement. The majority of the workshop however offers delegates a structured opportunity to undertake their own concrete curriculum development.

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12/02/2018
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