Workshop | Environmental Education is Basic Human Right

21 September, 2016

Monday, October 10, 2016 10:10 am | Etc/GMT-6

Organizer:

Featuring:

Environmental Education Workshop Sydney 2016

The Australian workshop objectives are to

-share background, experience and knowledge in establishing effective environmental education as part of main stream curriculum in Australia and surrounding countries;

-explore ways to influence government to ensure adequacy in curriculum on environmental education as part of the mainstream education system.

-agree to develop a strategy and set of actions to forward the global campaign ‘Environmental Education is Basic Human Right’ taking Bangladesh as a case study.

Conceptualized and Initiated by

BUILD BANGLADESH

Supported by

UNSW Australia | HiiL | Bangladesh Architects in Australia (BaA)

Knowledge partner and powered by

Prokriti o Jibon Foundation | Cambrian Education Group

PROGRAM

10:00	Arrival / Tea Coffee /Greetings
10:30	Welcome and introduction
	Associate Professor Paul Brown Environmental Humanities, UNSW Producer Alphaville– linking environment, science and the creative arts
10:40	Welcome
	Kazi Imtiaz Hossain Hon. High Commissioner for Bangladesh in Australia
10.45	Environmental education is Basic Human Right: the Global Campaign
	Farhadur Reza President, Build Bangladesh
11:00	Environmental education in Bangladesh
	Muquid Majumdar Babu Chairman Prokritio JibonFoundation and Founding Director Impress Group.
11:15	Environmental education in Australia
	Grahame Collier former President AAEE
11:30	Workshop
	Workshop background and expected outcomes Facilitated by Architect Iftekhar Abdullah (BaA)
11:35	Part One –Collective discussion
	Issue One: Needs assessment and components of environmental education formal/institutional, informal/media Paul Brown to lead
	Issue Two: Identify Stakeholders for support/Target audiences/ recipients/ Communication Strategy (global and local) facilitator Sue Martin AAEE Schools subcommittee.
	Issue Three: Governance –Establishment of a Multinational Task Force Required Resources and Support facilitated by Samik Waiz (BaA)
12:35	Part One Summary
	Shamim Ahmed ( PoJF) and Tanu Murang(BaA)
12:45	Lunch Break
1:15	Part Two
	Facilitated workshop among all participants (60 minutes for group discussion 15 minutes to report back) introduced by Tanvir Ahmed (BaA)
	Topic : Adequacy, Effectiveness and Accountability: Prioritisation of Environmental and Sustainability Education in Bangladesh with lessons to be learnt from Australia facilitated by Dr. Sylvia Almedia (Monash University) and Dr. Mahbub Sarkar (Monash University)
2:30	Where to from here?
	Summary of workshop including: identify tangible outcomes, formulation of a Multinational Task Force to lead the agenda and action items with roles and responsibilities. Associate Professor Paul Brown (UNSW)
3:00	Concluding remarks and thanks
	Farhadur Reza President, Build Bangladesh
3:15	END