SED8101 Education for Sustainable Development

The course is a core cross-cutting course for all students enrolled in Master degree program of Busitema University. The course is aimed at equipping students with a critical understanding of the Sustainable Development (SD) and Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) principles, debate and practices focusing on social, environmental, political and economic forces underlying sustainable development. The course describes sustainable development challenges, conflicts and explores potential approaches to address their causes. The course adopts global and local comparative perspective, exploring the specific conditions for intervention in different contexts from all over the world. It equips the learners with the knowledge and skills to initiate and promote sustainability practices, and prepares the learners to become educators of sustainable development within their community.  

Course objectives 

• Introduce students to the issues, principles and concepts and practices of sustainable development.
• Students should critically examine the theory and practice of environment and sustainable development at the international, national and urban levels in a variety of contexts; 
• provide an understanding of the processes generating social and environmental change and with the skills and abilities to respond to such changes
• Provide graduates with skills for educating for sustainable development
• Provide a forum for students to engage with community in issues that affect humanity and sustainable development.
• Develop students’ skills and competence in community engagement practices.
• Produce professional community leaders who are reflexive, critical and sensitive to 

Learning outcomes
This course is expected to produce leaders and managers who:

• Have the knowledge and skills for sustainable development.
• Can educate for sustainable development.
• Can influence their learners and the community to adopt sustainable development practices    
• Can initiate Sustainable practices, projects in their schools.
• Are competent to participate in community development projects.