Workshop | Environmental Education is Basic Human Right
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
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| 10:40 | Welcome |
| Kazi Imtiaz Hossain
Hon. High Commissioner for Bangladesh in Australia
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| 10.45 | Environmental education is Basic Human Right: the Global Campaign |
| Farhadur Reza
President, Build Bangladesh
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| 11:00 | Environmental education in Bangladesh |
| Muquid Majumdar Babu
Chairman Prokritio JibonFoundation and Founding Director Impress Group.
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| 11:15 | Environmental education in Australia |
| Grahame Collier
former President AAEE
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| 11:30 | Workshop |
| Workshop background and expected outcomes
Facilitated by Architect Iftekhar Abdullah (BaA)
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| 11:35 | Part One –Collective discussion |
| Issue One:
Needs assessment and components of environmental education formal/institutional, informal/media Paul Brown to lead
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| Issue Two:
Identify Stakeholders for support/Target audiences/ recipients/ Communication Strategy (global and local) facilitator Sue Martin AAEE Schools subcommittee.
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| Issue Three:
Governance –Establishment of a Multinational Task Force Required Resources and Support facilitated by Samik Waiz (BaA)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| 3:00 | Concluding remarks and thanks |
| Farhadur Reza
President, Build Bangladesh
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| 3:15 | END |
