Dianne Chambers, University of Melbourne

Session Duration: 45min

Many university are grappling with a desire to include sustainability across their curricular, and even agreeing on an appropriate terms to use (address sustainability, include sustainability, embed sustainability etc.) can be a substantial achievement. Making a shift to sustainability being embedded across a university’s curriculum is a monumental undertaking as, for it to succeed, there needs to be not only the development of curricula for possibly hundreds of subjects across many faculties and even more departments, but also a cultural shift so that what is in the taught curriculum is reflected in the university’s hidden curriculum.

Frames by an understanding of academic identity and organisational change, this session will explore the process of shifting  a tertiary curriculum so that institutional goals of embedding sustainability across the curriculum can be achieved. Participants will be invited to build on an institution wide framework that universities and other tertiary institutions facing this challenge could apply.